Visionary American architect, inventor, writer, and philosopher (1895-1983) perhaps best known for inventing the geodesic dome, one of the signal developments in modern design and engineering. Two large 19 x 12 pages featuring storyboard-style sketches accomplished in felt tip by Buckminster Fuller, documenting elements of his futurist theories. Panels on the first page include: "Spaceship Earth," a worldview popularized in his 1969 book 'Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth'; basic forms of his geodesic dome; a Dymaxion map representing his "one world" philosophy; pyramids labeled "basic travel" and "percentage world population," with "Moscow at center of gravity"; a "basic ecological pattern" with women at the center and men in orbit; and a "galaxy of mothership housekeepers." Panels on the second page include: "man running backward into his future"; "infinity"; "solid cubes"; "synergy"; and others, with several intriguing sketches of cubes, boxes, and numbered triangles. In fine condition.
