LongHouse Talks: Alec Nevala-Lee on Buckminster Fuller (September 29)

Sunday, September 29 | 5:00 pm 

For nearly a quarter of a century, one of the most iconic structures at LongHouse Reserve has been the Fly’s Eye Dome, a 28-foot enclosure based on a design by Buckminster Fuller. An innovative architectural designer, inventor, and futurist, Fuller (1895-1983) occupied a unique position at the intersection between the environmental movement, the twentieth-century avant-garde, and the startup culture of Silicon Valley. LongHouse is pleased to welcome Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the biography Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller, for a conversation about the history of the Fly’s Eye Dome, Fuller’s career, and the impact and legacy of his ideas.

About Alec Nevala-Lee

Alec Nevala-Lee’s book Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller (Dey Street Books / HarperCollins) was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and one of Esquire’s fifty best biographies of all time. His previous book, Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, was a Hugo Award finalist and an Economist best book of the year. Nevala-Lee’s work has appeared in print and online in such publications as the New York Times, the Atlantic, Slate, and The Daily Beast. His next book will be Collisions, a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis W. Alvarez, which is scheduled to be published by W. W. Norton in the summer of 2025.