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Paolo Soleri (21 June 1919 – 9 April 2013) was an Italian architect. He established the educational Cosanti Foundation and Arcosanti. Soleri was a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006. He died at home of natural causes on 9 April 2013 at the age of 93.
Soleri authored six books, including The Omega Seed, "Arcology - City In the Image of Man," and numerous essays and monographs.
Soleri was born in Turin, Italy. He was awarded his "laurea" (master's degree with highest honors) in architecture from the Politecnico di Torino in 1946. He visited the United States in December 1946 and spent a year and a half in fellowship with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West in Arizona, and at Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin. During this time, he gained international recognition for a bridge design displayed at the Museum of Modern Art.
Soleri returned to Italy in 1950 with his wife Colly, (nee Corolyn Woods), where he was commissioned to build a large ceramics factory, "Ceramica Artistica Solimene," in Vietri on the Amalfi coast.
Paolo Soleri talked to Floornature about his projects those that have been built and those that exist only in his mind about Arcosanti and Cosanti, what aspects of Italian culture that he has brought with him and what it really means to build naturally, even offering his reflections on world politics.
Visionary architect Paolo Soleri began building Arcosanti, his utopian city in the desert, in 1970 and continued to work on this “arcology” (“architecture + “ecology”) until his death at 93 in 2013. When I interviewed Soleri in 2000, he described the experimental city as a reaction to the scattering of people across the US landscape, what he called a “planetary hermitage”. In 2000, I interviewed the Begin-Tollas family, who as planning manager (Nadia Begin) and construction manager (David Tollas) were hoping to help build a different future for their 3-year-old son Tristan (“the first child to grow up in an arcology”). In 2014 I returned to this desert oasis, a year after Soleri died, where residents, like planning manager Rawaf al Rawaf, were trying to determine the future of this “urb...
http://bloomingrock.com An multi-part interview with world-renown, Phoenix-based architect, Will Bruder
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Conrad Skinner is an architect with a background in art, art history and dance. Over the last four years, Skinner has emerged as one of the foremost advocates for the Paolo Soleri Amphitheater in Santa Fe, NM, the first theater designed expressly for American Indian drama. Through archival research and interviews with artists, architects, actors, writers and teachers, Skinner has come to understand the history of the theater and the characteristics that make it an architectural gem. Photo acknowledgements: Institute of American Indian Arts, Arcosanti, and Robert Reck. Conrad Skinner graduated from Reed College in 1974. He earned his Master of Architecture from the University of New Mexico. In 1985 he...
Paolo Soleri si racconta nella conversazione con il critico di architettura e fotografo Emanuele Piccardo a Cosanti, Arizona, nel 2006 all'interno del progetto fotografico Soleritown, realizzato insieme a Filippo Romano, promosso da plug_in con Provincia di Torino, Ordine Architetti di Torino.
Concert held during the opening weekend of the sixth Santa Fe Biennial 2006, performed by Snorre Ruch and Jon Wesseltoft. The concert was based on sound material created for the Biennial installation piece 0.0.
KAZT-tv's The Morning Scramble interviews Samantha Scarlette on the Film, "The Vision Of Paolo Soleri".