Ideas and Integrities Quotes

“There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller, Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

“Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller, Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

“It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller, Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

“A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller, Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

“The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller, Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure