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M1915

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R. Buckminster Fuller: Conversations on the Life & Work of an Enigmatic Genius

Digital

Applewhite, E.J., interviewed by Jeffrey Schnapp, 2002-01-30, Stanford University

M1915_b1_01

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Physical Description: 1 videotape(s) (betacam-sp)

Biographical Note

E.J. Applewhite was born in Tidewater Virginia in 1919. Insisting that he "just couldn't bear for anyone to have secrets that [he] didn't know about" E. J. Applewhite pursued career in the CIA as Deputy Inspector General and Chief of the Inspection Staff. The same instinct led him to him to collaborate with Buckminster Fuller on Synergetics (1975). Applewhite's other books include Cosmic Fishing: An Account of Writing Synergetics with Buckminster Fuller (1975), Washington Itself (1981) and Paradise Mislaid (1991), as well as the four-volume Synergetics dictionary: the mind of Buckminster Fuller (1986).

Brand, Stewart, interviewed by Joseph Corn, 2002-02-27, Stanford University

M1915_b1_02

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Physical Description: 1 videotape(s) (betacam-sp)

Foster, Norman, interview by Jeffrey Schnapp, 2003-10-24, Green Library, Stanford University

M1915_b1_03

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Biographical note

Norman Foster is a distinguished architect and designer, principal of Foster and Partners, an international architecture, design, and development firm based in London. Lord Foster was educated at Manchester University and Yale University, and has been the recipient of numerous major architectural awards including the Pritzker Prize (1999), the AIA Gold Medal (1994) and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal (1983).

Lord Foster met Buckminster Fuller in 1971, and over the course of the next twelve years the two collaborated on numerous projects and exchanged ideas regarding shelter, energy, and the envoronment. The collaborations with Bucky would later find their way into Foster's architectural designs; their collaboration on the "climatroffice" project in the early 1970's informed and inflenced the design of the Swiss Re building in London (1997-2004), which uses natural ventilation to create reduce the need for mechanical cooling and ventilation.

In his 1999 acceptance speech for the Pritzker Prize, Lord Foster said of R. Buckminster Fuller, he was "the essence of a moral conscience....He remains a guiding spirit..."

Roszak, Theodore, interviewed by Jeffrey Schnapp, 2003-04-30, Stanford University

M1915_b1_04

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Physical Description: 1 videotape(s) (betacam-sp)

Sadao, Shoji, interviewed by Jeffrey Schnapp, 2002-02-16, Stanford University

M1915_b1_05

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Physical Description: 1 videotape(s) (betacam-sp)

Snelson, Kenneth, interviewed by Jeffrey Schnapp, 2003-02-13,Stanford University

M1915_b1_06

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Physical Description: 1 videotape(s) (betacam-sp)

Snyder, Allegra Fuller, interviewed by Jeffrey Schnapp, 2002-01-22, Stanford University

Part 1: M1915_b1_07

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Part 2: M1915_b1_08

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Physical Description: 1 videotape(s) (betacam)

Zung, Thomas T. K., 2002-02-13, Stanford University

Part 1: M1915_b1_09

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Part 2: M1915_b1_10

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Physical Description: 2 videotape(s) (betacam-sp)

Media (edited programs)

Box 1

Ed Applewhite - Interview Pt.1-2 (2 miniDV) Dub From Master 3/5/03 (1 miniDV)

Box 9

E.J. Applewhite 9/02 Edited Master (BetacamSP)

Box 1

Stewart Brand - Dub from Edited Master 4/3/03 (1 miniDV)

Box 9

Stewart Brand 10/02 Edited Master (BetacamSP)

Box 1

Foster (1 miniDV)

Box 9

Norman Foster 2/04 Master (BetacamSP)

Box 1

Roszak (3 miniDV)

Box 9

Theodore Roszak 11/03 Master (BetacamSP)

Box 1

Sadao Dub From Master (1 miniDV)

Box 9

Shoji Sadao 8/02 Edited Master (BetacamSP)

Box 1

Edwin Schlossberg (4 miniDV)

Box 1

Snelson Conversations Tape 1-2 (2 miniDV) ; Snelson Talk (1 miniDV)

Box 9

Kenneth Snelson 9/03 Master (BetacamSP)

Box 1

Allegra Fuller Snyder (2 miniDV)

Box 9

Allegra Fuller Snyder 7/03 Master (BetacamSP) 1 of 2

Box 9

Allegra Fuller Snyder 7/03 Master (BetacamSP) 2 of 2

Box 1

Roger Stoller 5/5/2003 (2 miniDV) ; Stoller interview Gorman 5/5/2003 (2 miniDV)

Box 1

[2 unlabeled miniDV tapes]

Box 4

Roger W. Stoller interview May 5, 2003 (1 DVD-R)

Box 4

[unlabeled DVD-R, possibly Stoller interview]

Box 9

Thomas T.K. Zung 12/02 Master (BetacamSP) 1 of 2

Box 9

Thomas T.K. Zung 12/02 Master (BetacamSP) 2 of 2

Box 9

Thomas T.K. Zung 12/02 Edited Master (DVCAM)

Box 4

Fuller Oral History Transcripts (CDR, 2 copies)

Box 2

VHS copies

Media (raw camera footage)

Box 5

Fuller Conversations 1/16/02 Camera 1 pt.1-3 2002-01-16

Box 5

Fuller Conversations 1/16/02 Camera 2 pt.1-3 2002-01-16

Box 5

Fuller Session #2 1/30/02 Camera 1 pt.1-2 2002-01-30

Box 5

Fuller Session #2 1/30/02 Camera 2 pt.1-2 2002-01-30

Box 5

Buckminster Fuller Conversations Cantor Auditorium 2/13/02 Camera 1 pt.1-2 2002-02-13

Box 5

Buckminster Fuller Conversations Cantor Auditorium 2/13/02 Camera 2 pt.1-2 2002-02-13

Box 5

Fuller Talk 2/27/02 Camera 1 pt.1-2 2002-02-27

Box 6

Fuller Talk 2/27/02 Camera 2 pt.1-2 2002-02-27

Box 6

Fuller Re-Do 4/5/02 pt.1-2 2002-04-05

Box 6

Allegra on Bucky Camera 1 1/22/03 pt.1-2 2003-01-22

Box 6

Allegra on Bucky Camera 2 1/22/03 pt.1 2003-01-22

Box 6

Fuller II. Snelson 2/12/03 Camera 1 pt.1-2 2003-02-12

Box 6

Fuller II. Snelson 2/12/03 Camera 2 pt.1-2 2003-02-12

Box 7

Fuller Conversations. T. Roszak 4/30/03 Camera 1 pt.1-2 2003-04-30

Box 7

Fuller Conversations. T. Roszak 4/30/03 Camera 2 pt.1-2 2003-04-30

Box 7

Fuller Conversations. Norm Foster 10/24/03 Camera 1 2003-10-24

Box 7

Fuller Conversations. Norm Foster 10/24/03 Camera 2 2003-10-24

Box 7

Fuller Talk #1. Dub Composite (For Re-Do)

Box 3

Paper files

T.K. Zung Interviews re: Black Mountain College, Cleveland 2002-2003

Physical Description: 9 videotape(s) (minidv)

Box 8

Ruth Asawa. Black Mountain College Oral History Aug.24, 2002 2002-08-24

Box 8

Ruth Asawa. Stanford - Bucky, "Connections" Aug. 24, 2002 2002-08-24

Box 8

Albert Lanier. Black Mountain College Oral History August 24, 2002 2002-08-24

Box 8

Ruth Asawa. Stanford Archives. Bucky Fuller Interview. Aug. 25, 2002 2002-08-25

Box 8

Albert Lanier. Black Mountain College - Bucky Dome August 25, 2002 2002-08-25

Box 8

Richard Pogue. Cleveland Connection Oral History Bucky Fuller, Doxiadis. Jan. 10, 2003 2003-01-10

Box 8

Dale Finley. Nous. Cleveland Connection March 3, 2003 City Club 2003-03-03

Box 8

Hunter Morrison. Cleveland Connection, Doxiadis April 21, 2003 Cleveland Urban Design Center 2003-04-21

Box 8

Holly Strawbridge. Bucky - Stanford University. Cleveland Connection Aug.5, 2003 2003-08-05

Other interviews

Scope and Contents

Recordings related to Fuller's archive but not part of the "Conversations" series.

Box 4

Herman Wolf interviewed by Hsiao-Yun Chu 5/22/05 [2 audiocassettes - 2006-341]

Box 4

Buckminster Fuller Archive Overview Bonnie DeVarco, Y.C. Wong, July 1995 (1 videocassette)

Box 4

Bonnie Goldstein deVarco interviewed by Hsiao-Yun Chu about the Buckminster Fuller Archive 5/12/2006 (2 audiocassettes)

Collection Contents

R. Buckminster Fuller: Conversations on the Life & Work of an Enigmatic Genius

Digital

Media (edited programs)

Media (raw camera footage)

Paper files

T.K. Zung Interviews re: Black Mountain College, Cleveland

Other interviews