Guide to the Claude Stoller collection of R. Buckminster Fuller material M2045

Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
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Stanford 94305-6064
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Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Claude Stoller collection of R. Buckminster Fuller material
creator: Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster)
source: Stoller, Claude
Identifier/Call Number: M2045
Physical Description: 3.5 Linear Feet one mb, one half mb, one flat, one oversized flat, one map folder Flat oversized box is 24.5 x 30.5
Date (inclusive): 1955-1980
Language of Material: Materials are in English.

Biographical Note

Claude Stoller (born 1921) was a faculty member in the Department of Architecture at the University of California. His main passion centered on social issues such as inequities in housing, community concerns about redevelopment plans, and creating energy-efficient designs. Stoller first meet Fuller in 1955 when he helped bring Fuller to Washington University and the two men maintained their relationship over the years.

Scope and Contents

Stoller's collection on R. Buckminster Fuller contains correspondence with Fuller as well as Fuller’s with others; articles by and about R. Buckminster Fuller; material about specific projects; original sketches by Fuller; and diagrams and charts, among others. Plastic pieces to create a model are also part of this collection.

Preferred Citation

[identification of item], Claude Stoller collection of R. Buckminster Fuller material, (M2045). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Claude Stoller, 2014.

Related Materials

Buckminster Fuller papers;eAlso located at Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.
Claude Stoller Collection; Environmental Design Archives. University of California, Berkeley.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster)
Stoller, Claude

box 1, folder 1, folder 2

Correspondence: Buckminster Fuller with Claude Stoller; and original sketches

box 1, folder 9

Scientific Dwelling Machine information packet

box 1, folder 3

Correspondence: Donald Moore Company

box 1, folder 8

Fly's Eye Dome

box 1, folder 4

Correspondence:1955-1982

box 1, folder 5

Articles by and about Buckminster Fuller

box 1, carton 6

ARKIS matter

box 1, folder 7

Dymaxion projecrt

box 1, folder 10

An introduction to the energetic-synergetic geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller

box 1, folder 11

Articles 1990-1991

box 1, folder 12

Reports and publications

box 1, folder 13

Magazines and bulletins

half-box 2

World Design Science Decade 1965-1975 [unfoldered]

flat-box 3

Plastic pieces of a model

flat-box 4, folder 1

Life chart of Buckminster Fuller

flat-box 4, folder 2

Drawings of Wind Harvest test and Chilling Machine test, September 15, 1977

flat-box 4, folder 3

Diagram by Bob Snow

flat-box 4, folder 4

Articles about the geodesic dome, photocopy

map-folder 5

The Dymaxion airocean world, poster