{"id":31657,"date":"2021-11-05T17:07:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T17:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=31657"},"modified":"2021-11-05T18:05:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T18:05:33","slug":"ihbccop26-resource-management-signpost-james-caird-revisits-buckminster-fuller-out-of-context-by-conservation-wiki-and-designing-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=31657","title":{"rendered":"IHBC@COP26 \u2018resource management\u2019 signpost: James Caird revisits Buckminster Fuller, out of Context by Conservation Wiki and Designing Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>IHBC past Chair James Caird has explored Buckminster Fuller\u2019s \u2018real legacy\u2019, in resource management – a theme central to the IHBC@COP26<\/a> programme \u2013 in the IHBC\u2019s journal Context<\/em><\/a>, with the article now also featured to the 15000 readers of the Newsletter<\/em> from Designing Buildings<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> following its re-post to the Conservation Wiki<\/a>.<\/h3>\n

image: Wmpearl<\/a> Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n

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…It is to him [Buckminster Fuller] we owe the concept of absolute limits to the world\u2019s resources a full 40 years before the Club of Rome\u2019s 1972 report …<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

James Caird writes:<\/p>\n

Buckminster Fuller first came into my life in the 60s. We architectural students referred to him as \u2018Bucky\u2019, as if we were personal friends, built structures with floating compression members in balsa wood and thread, and used the word \u2018synergetics\u2019 a lot\u2026.<\/p>\n

\u2026 Fuller\u2019s real legacy is in the field of resource management. It is to him we owe the concept of absolute limits to the world\u2019s resources a full 40 years before the Club of Rome\u2019s 1972 report The Limits to Growth. Strangely, to modern ears, he made little reference to energy as a resource because that is the one thing of which the earth has a limitless supply. Like everyone else he did not foresee our current climate difficulties arising from centuries of the world living off its carbon batteries. Were he alive today he would declare the problem to be purely a matter of engineering and exhort us to get on with harnessing the sun\u2019s energy\u2026.<\/p>\n

Resource conservation is on-trend today with the recent award of the Pritzker Architecture Prize to Anne Lacaton and Jean- Philippe Vassal for their work in repurposed buildings. This reinforces the IHBC\u2019s belief that conserving historic fabric is a fundamental component of sustainability. Fuller himself believed that conservation is \u2018the widest, active, practical usefulness\u2019. Buckminster Fuller is a hard read. His English style is impenetrable. He felt limited by plain English words and coined new ones, often stringing two or three polysyllabic words together with hyphens. Nevertheless, his work must not become disregarded and I did not get where I am today doing any such thing.<\/p>\n

See the article in Context 168<\/a> linked HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

See more content from Context<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

See the article on the IHBC\u2019s Conservation Wiki<\/a> at https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Revisiting_Buckminster_Fuller<\/a><\/p>\n

See more on Designing Buildings<\/a>, the construction wiki and sign up to the free Newsletter<\/em> HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

See the IHBC\u2019s Conservation Wiki<\/a><\/p>\n

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Why is IHBC@COP26? Because \u2018Conserving our Places Conserves our Planet\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Join IHBC\u2019s globally accessible virtual built and historic environment \u2018<\/em>Conservation Helpdesk+<\/em><\/a>\u2019, #IHBCHelpdesk #CultureCOP26 \u2013 open 31\/10 to 12\/11)<\/em><\/p>\n

Listen the IHBC@COP26\u00a0\u2018Climate and Conservation\u2019 Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0anytime, or from the\u00a0\u2018<\/em>Conservation Helpdesk+<\/em><\/a>\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

See how\u00a0<\/em>\u2018Conserving our Places Conserves our Planet<\/em><\/a>\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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