Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0062947222 ISBN13: 9780062947222 Release Date: August 2022 Publisher: Dey Street Books Length: 672 Pages Weight: 1.85 lbs. Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.2" Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine Book of the Week * A New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceFrom Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America's idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and futurist best known for the geodesic dome, he enthralled a vast popular audience, inspired devotion from both the counterculture and the establishment, and was praised as a modern Leonardo da Vinci. To his admirers, he exemplified what one man could accomplish by approaching urgent design problems u