Following in the successful tracks of DRIVE, vehicle sketches and renderings, BLAST takes the readers on a visual exploration of spaceships. The team from DRIVE, Scott Robertson, Annis Naeem, and Danny Gardner are together again for BLAST, with each of the three artists exploring spaceships and sci-fi environments with concept sketches executed in wide range of mediums through ...(展开全部)

Buckminster Fuller (1895a "1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his comprehensive perspective on the worlda (TM)s problems in numerous essays, which offer an illuminating insight into the intellectual ...(展开全部)

理查德·巴克敏斯特·富勒（1895—1983年）是一位美国建筑师、工程师、几何学家、制图师、哲学家、未来学家和发明家。著名的网格球顶便是他的杰作。富勒是当代最出色的思想家之一，以其研究地球危机所采用的综合化视角而闻名。50多年来，他有众多创造发明，理念先进，致力于“以少胜多”，发掘创新潜力，提高人类生活水平。富勒一生勤勉，著述近30本。他热心于公众启蒙，环游世界各地发表演讲，听众数以万计。1983年，富勒在病逝之前不久荣获了美国总统自由勋章。该奖项是美国最高的平民荣誉。颁奖词中称赞道：“他在几何学、教育学和建筑设计领域卓有贡献，为这些领域的发展树立了标杆。”富勒离世后，化学家发现了一种新型的碳分子同素异形体，由于其分子结构类似于网格球顶，将其命名为“巴克敏斯特·富勒烯”，当今科学界通常称它为“巴克球”。

In 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world’s first zero-carbon city: Masdar City. In Spaceship in the Desert Gökçe Günel examines the development and construction of Masdar City's renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures, providing an illuminating portrait of an international group of engineers, designers, and students who attempted to b...(展开全部)