Authors on Architecture: Nevala-Lee on Buckminster Fuller
Zoom Program
Sunday, November 13, 2022
Join the SAH/SCC as
we learn more about the fascinating man and architect that was Buckminster
Fuller. Author Alec Nevala-Lee will present his new book, Inventor of the
Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller (Dey Street /
HarperCollins, 2022).
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.
Inventor
of the Future is
the first authoritative biography to cover all aspects of Fuller’s career.
Drawing on meticulous research, dozens of interviews, and thousands of unpublished
documents, Nevala-Lee’s portrait transcends the myth of Fuller as an
otherworldly generalist. It reconstructs the true origins of his most famous
inventions, including the Dymaxion Car, the Wichita House, and the dome itself;
Fuller’s fraught relationships with his students and collaborators; his
interactions with Frank Lloyd Wright, Isamu Noguchi, Clare Boothe Luce, John
Cage, Steve Jobs, and many others; and his tumultuous private life, in which
his determination to succeed on his own terms came at an immense personal
cost.
Alec Nevala-Lee was
a 2019 Hugo and Locus Awards finalist for Astounding: John W. Campbell,
Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science
Fiction (Dey Street / HarperCollins), which was named one of the best
books of the year by The Economist. He is the author of three
suspense novels from Penguin, including The Icon Thief, and his
work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles
Times, Slate, Salon, The Daily Beast, Analog
Science Fiction and Fact, and two editions of The Year's Best
Science Fiction.
Nevala-Lee on Buckminster Fuller; Sunday, November 13th; 1-2:30PM PST; $5; pay via
PayPal through the link above. Zoom connection information sent upon
registration.
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