"Influences on My Work" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(January 1955. The original is a letter from Fuller to John McHale in reply to questions about the influence of the Bauhaus on Fuller's work. First published in Architectural Design , July 1961... editor John McHale. © 1961 by R.Buckminster Fuller...
reissued in the collection The Buckminster Fuller Reader edited by James Meller, 1970.)

"Later Development of My Work" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(June 1958. The original was delivered by Fuller as the Annual Discourse to the Royal Institute of British Architects under the title 'Experimental Probing of Architectural Initiative'. It was subsequently published in the RIBA Journal in October 1958...
reissued in the collection The Buckminster Fuller Reader edited by James Meller, 1970.)

"Margaret Fuller's Prophecy" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(Published by R.Buckminster Fuller in his Shelter Magazine in November 1932, and issued four days before the presidential election at which Franklin D.Roosevelt was first elected President and instituted the 'New Deal'...
reissued in the collection The Buckminster Fuller Reader edited by James Meller, 1970.)

"The Comprehensive Man" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"I Figure" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(reissued in the collection The Buckminster Fuller Reader edited by James Meller, 1970.)
"On November 1st, 1942, eleven months after Pearl Harbor, the editor and staff of Pencil Points Magazine which later was renamed Progressive Architecture proposed that I write an article on post-war housing... When I turned it in to them in December 1942, they decided against publishing it. By then I was busy in the US Government's Board of Economic Warfare and I put 'I Figure' away in my File and Forget file -- and did actually forget it -- for twenty years until, in preparation of a biography of my thought development, I recalled it and felt that its inclusion might permit a sense of realistic participation by others in the typical circumstances and intuitions that seemed to have uncorked my intermittent prognostic outpourings." --R.Buckminster Fuller, 1963.

"Fluid Geography" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(April 1944. First published in the American Neptune , together with the Dymaxion World Map...
reissued in the collection The Buckminster Fuller Reader edited by James Meller, 1970.)

"The Cumulative Nature of Wealth" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Domes -- Their Long History and Recent Developments" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Comprehensive Designing" by R.Buckminster Fuller,

"Design for Survival--Plus" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(January 1949. The original was a talk delivered by Fuller to the first formal meeting at the Illinois Institute of Technology to consider the inauguration of a programme to convene the abilities of Science, Engineering and Design in the realization of single family dwelling units. First published in Ideas and Integrities , 1963...
reissued in the collection The Buckminster Fuller Reader edited by James Meller, 1970.)

"Preview of Building" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(April 1949. The original was a talk by Fuller on geodesic structural strategy delivered to the University of Michigan's 'Mid-Century Conference on Housing'...
reissued in the collection The Buckminster Fuller Reader edited by James Meller, 1970.)

"Total Thinking" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(May 1949... reissued in the collection The Buckminster Fuller Reader edited by James Meller, 1970.)
"As I prepared Ideas and Integrities for publication, I rediscovered 'Total Thinking' which I had written at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, in 1949, prior to the electronic computer's presnt mssive development and the latter's swiftly 'fed-back' popularization of Professor Norbert Weiner's Cybernetics born language of 1948. I had not read Cybernetics when I wrote 'Total Thinking', and I publish it now because its analytical epistomology unexpectedly provides a broad view of computer programming conceptions and experimental strategies which embrace potentially powerful forecasting capabilities." --R.Buckminster Fuller, 1963.

"Prime Design" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(May 1960. A talk given by Fuller to the Bennington College Southern California Regional Alumnae Group meeting in Beverley Hills and subsequently published in the Bennington College Bulletin ...
reissued in the collection The Buckminster Fuller Reader edited by James Meller, 1970.)

"The Architect as World Planner" by R.Buckminster Fuller

"World Planning" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(1963. Prepared by Fuller for the 1963 Congress of the International Union of Architects held in Cuba. As an American Fuller was not permitted to go to Cuba and he presented this proposal to an International Symposium held in Mexico City immediately after the Cuba meeting. The proposal is a project outline for Phase 1 of 'World Design Science Decade'...
reissued in the collection The Buckminster Fuller Reader edited by James Meller, 1970.)

"The Long Distance Trending in Pre-Assembly" by R.Buckminster Fuller

"The Future" by R.Buckminster Fuller

"Continuous Man" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(1960. The original is a letter written by Fuller to a leading US Industrialist subsequently published in Ideas and Integrities , 1963...
reissued in the collection The Buckminster Fuller Reader edited by James Meller, 1970.)

"The Designers and the Politicians" by R.Buckminster Fuller

Index.

"In Ideas and Integrities Buckminster Fuller, one of the most influential designrs and thinkers of the modern world, describes the revolutionary designs and concepts he has pioneered -- among them the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion 4-D house, the Dymaxion 4-D automobile, and countless other structures and creations that have changed the face of America and the world. And he sets forth his amazing and challenging ideas for the world of the future -- ideas that would revolutionize everything from university education to bathroom design, ideas that, above all, demonstrate how we can and must make far more imaginative and efficient use of the resources now available to us to ensure a better standard of living for all men." [jacket blurb, US hbk, 1969]

"Stimulating and provocative....Like a Francis Bacon charting courses for future genrations to pursue, Fuller anticipates the need for the 'comprehensive designer', who would be a 'synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and evolutionary strategist'. Such a man, he says, would be an initiator of design, able to anticipate all of man's needs and provide new and advanced standards of living for a steadily increasing percentage of the world population." -- (in Chicago Tribune ).

"Each page of Ideas and Integrities is, in a sense, a statement of a contemporary problem, followed by a series of incisive, unexpected, wildly imaginative questions. The genius of Fuller is that he knows exactly what questions to ask, and in which order. What makes him more than a walking computer is his humanity and his imagination. For whether he likes it or not, Bucky is, above all, an artist and a poet -- that rare contemporary poet who does not despair of the human condition." --Peter Blake (in The New York Times Book Review ).

"As full an account as we are likely to see of Fuller's development as a total thinker." --Howard Taylor (in Book Week ).

"A comprehensive coverage of Fuller's ideas and inventions. Includes photographs of his work." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1997).

Highly recommended.