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With the publication of his first book in 1962 at the age of 26, Richard Saul Wurman began the singular passion of his life: that of making information understandable. In his best-selling book, Information Anxiety, in 1990, he developed an overview of the motivating principles found in his previous works. Follow the Yellow Brick Road is the second of this series. Each of his books focuses on some subject or idea that he personally had difficulty understanding. They all stem from his desire to know rather than from already knowing, from his ignorance rather than his knowledge, from his inability rather than his ability. Along the way, Richard Saul Wurman has received both M. Arch. & B. Arch. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1959 he was graduated with the highest honors and awarded the Arthur Spayd Brookes Gold Medal. He established a deep personal & professional relationship with the architect Louis I. Kahn. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA), and a former member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale). He has been awarded several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Graham Fellowships & two Chandler Fellowships. In 1991, Richard Saul Wurman received the Kevin Lynch Award from MIT for his creation of the ACCESS travel guides & was honored by a retrospective exhibition of his work at the AXIS Design Gallery in Tokyo, Japan on the occasion of their 10th Anniversary. In 1996, the Pacific Design Center awarded him their Stars of Design lifetime achievement award. The same year, he received the DaimlerChrysler Design Award. In 1993/1997 he was appointed a Visiting Scholar at MIT in the Department of Architecture & Planning. In 1994, he was named a Fellow of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland & awarded a Doctorate of Fine Arts by the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. In 1995, he received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Art Center College of Design & was Chairman of Graphic Design & Product/Industrial Design of the 1995 Presidential Design Awards. He created an annual design competition for the AIGA in 1995, The Design of Understanding & chaired the first jury. In 1997 and 1999, he was named to Upside Magazine’s Elite 100 Most Influential People in the Digital World and in 1999 he received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Boston. His career has spanned from a 13-year architectural partnership in Philadelphia, a Director of GEE! – Group for Environmental Education, to teaching at Cambridge University, England; CCNY; UCLA; USC; Washington University, St. Louis & Princeton University. In 1958 he was a member of the initial year of exploration at Tikal, Guatemala. He is also the CEO of TOP Publishing Group and is on the Editorial Board of Novartis Magazine. Richard Saul Wurman continues to be a regular consultant to major corporations in matters relating to the design & understanding of information. He is married to novelist Gloria Nagy, has four children (Tony, Vanessa, Reven and Josh) and lives in Newport, Rhode Island. E-mail: wurman@ted.com. Web site: www.ted.com. Conferences Chaired: International Design Conference in Aspen The Invisible City ‘72 First Federal Design Assembly (Co-Chairman) ‘73 AIA National Convention, Architecture of Information ‘76 TED (10) ‘84-‘00 TEDMed (2) ‘95 & ‘98 TEDSell ‘96 TEDNYC ‘97 TEDCity Toronto ‘00 A selection of RSW titles: 1960’s Cities: A Comparison of Form and Scale The Notebook and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn Urban Atlas: 20 American Cities (with Joseph Passonneau) Various Dwellings Described in a Comparative Manner 1970’s Aspen Visible Guidebook to Guidebooks Making the City Observable Man Made Philadelphia (with J.A. Gallery) The Nature of Recreation (with Alan Levy & Joel Katz) Our Man Made Environment Book 7 (with Alan Levy) What-If, Could-Be: An Historic Fable of the Future Yellow Pages Career Library (12 volumes) Yellow Pages of Learning Resources 1980’s Baseball Access Dog Access Football Access Hawaii Access Las Vegas Access London Access LA Access Medical Access New Orleans Access NYC Access Olympic Access Paris Access Polaroid Access Rome Access SF Access Summer Games Access Tokyo Access Winter Games Access Hats Information Anxiety Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & Markets Wash DC Access What Will Be Has Always Been, The Words of Louis I. Kahn 1990’s Barcelona Access Boston Access C, The Charleston Guide California Wine Country Access Chicago Access Danny Goodman’s Macintosh Handbook (Danny Goodman) Florence/Venice/Milan Access Follow the Yellow Brick Road (with Loring Leifer) Fortune Guide to Investing in the 90’s Information Architects (with Peter Bradford) N, The Newport Guide On Time, Airline Guide to North America Office Access San Diego Access Twin Peaks Access (with David Lynch) USAtlas |
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