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 Drawing on meticulous research, dozens of interviews, and thousands of unpublished documents, Nevala-Lee’s portrait transcends the myth of Fuller as an otherworldly generalist.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 at https://www.sahscc.org/site/index.php?function=event_details&id=470. Zoom connection information sent upon registration.
