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- Born: 1936
- Coined the phrase "information architect" in 1976ADC Global: Richard Saul Wurman Profile
- Created the popular Access travel guide book series
- Published his first book in 1962
- Created publishing company TOP
- Alma Mater: University of Pennsylvania
- Received the Arthur Spayd Brookes Gold Medal
- Has a fellowship at the American Institute of Architects
- Named a fellow at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
- 1996 Wurman received a Chrysler Design Award
- He is a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute Technology
- Taught at Cambridge University, City College of New York, the University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Washington University, St. Louis and at Princeton University.
- Spouse: Gloria Nagy
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Richard Saul Wurman is an architect, author and cartographer who has published over 80 books. He founded the TED Conference and more recently helped to launch The Entertainment Gathering, a conference that gathers speakers from the entertainment industry.
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Richard Saul Wurman on Amazon
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Understanding Healthcare - $25.00
Understanding your automobile and how to service and repair it is certainly useful. Understanding your body and how to maintain and improve it is far more important. <...Amazon
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Information Design - $30.00
foreword by Richard Saul Wurman Information design is the newest of the design disciplines. As a sign of our times, when the crafting of messages and meaning is so central t...Amazon
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Heart Disease & Cardiovascular Health - $12.95
In easy-to-understand terms, this book brings the reader helpful knowledge on the issues that matter, from your risk factors to living with a mended heart.Amazon
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Information Architects - $34.95
Frankly, I have found most books about graphics in the information age to be riddled with hyperbole, poorly designed, and vastly overpriced. After looking at many of these books,...Amazon
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Richard Saul Wurman Questions
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Does anyone have the Natasha Richard family statement? 3 Answershttp://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/20090318/293.richardson.natasha2.031909.jpg From http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25209804-5... read more -
What does a special envoy or special representative (i.e. Richard Holbrooke) actually do? 2 AnswersHe is a diplomat.Day to day, they oversee peace talks, handle issues of peace-making, trade, war, economics and culture. International treaties are usually nego... read more -
What should happen to Mayumi Heene and Richard Heene for creating the balloon boy hoax? 16 AnswersI think they should be responsible for the resources that were used. Prison time should be waived in lieu of public service, i.e. repairing the recently plowed... read more
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Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974.: What will be has always been : the words of Louis I. Kahn / [edited by] Richard Saul Wurman #onreserve
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@justinjwilliams I was talking to Richard Saul Wurman about this & he said "By the time you are trying to save something it's too late."
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'You have to accept it everything is the truth'-Richard Saul Wurman 'But not necessarily factual'-Dan Klyn http://danklyn.com/blog/?p=459
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RT @davegray: "Learning is remembering what you're interested in." ~ Richard Saul Wurman
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"Learning is remembering what you're interested in." ~ Richard Saul Wurman via @davegray
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