Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi: Best of Friends

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Best of Friends is an informal, close-up biography of the friendship between Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) and Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988). Author Shoji Sadao, who was a friend and business partner to both, chronicles the deep and abiding respect, affection, and support they had for one other. Fuller’s development of his Dymaxion Map, Geodesic geometry, and the Dymaxion Car are discussed in detail as are Noguchi’s multi-faceted career as sculptor, landscape architect, industrial designer, and dance set…