Personality, Jan. 19, 1953

ANYONE willing to go along with the proposition that a house is an Energetic Environment Valve, and that man is, among other things, "a self-balancing 28-jointed adapter-base biped" will find himself right at home with Richard Buckminster Fuller. Bucky Fuller is a super-technologist whose mission in life is to help the human race do more & more with less & less until, at the ultimate, it can do everything with nothing. Variously classified as a scientist, engineer, philosopher and architect, but innocent of formal education beyond a matter of months at Harvard College,...

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