Bucky wrote more than twenty books over the course of his career (see Bibliography). Several of these books, including Synergetics I and II are available online at bfi.org and other sites.
The documents in this series originate with a proposal made by R. Buckminster Fuller to the International Union of Architects (I. U. A. ) at their VIIth Congress in London, England in July, 1961, launching the World Design Science Decade.