Alec Nevala-Lee.
ALEC NEVALA-LEE: BUCKMINSTER FULLER BIOGRAPHY
INVENTOR OF THE FUTURE: THE VISIONARY LIFE OF BUCKMINSTER FULLER (2022)
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Buckminster Fuller (born 1895) was an extraordinarily talented architect, designer, and futurist. His designs were remarkable for their boldness and their innovation. His Dymaxion House was circular in design and made of metal - quite unlike any houses of the time. He envisaged that they would be built in quantity, like automobiles. In theevent only a few were built. His Dymaxion Car had three wheels, and looked like the fuselage of an aircraft without wings. None were built. But his most famous invention, the geodesic dome, was built, at small and large scale, all over the world. The finest example was the USA Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal.
Reviewing the book in the New York Times, Witold Rybczynski wrote: “Fuller himself remains indispensable,” Nevala-Lee concludes, “both as a role model and as a cautionary tale.” The strength of this carefully researched and fair-minded biography is that the reader comes away with a greater understanding of a deeply complicated individual who overcame obstacles — many of his own making — to achieve a kind of imperfect greatness.”
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Alec Nevala-Lee (born 1980) is an American writer of biographies and science fiction. He is of Chinese and Finnish ancestry. He graduated from Arvard with a BA in Classics. He has written for the New York Times, The Los Angleles Times, and the Daily Beast. He was a member of the jury that selected the finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
