The Urban Ideal: Conversations With Paolo Soleri

by Soleri, Paolo; Strohmeier, John; Strohmeier, John

• ISBN13: 9781893163287
• ISBN10: 1893163288
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Berkeley Hills Books

Summary

Architect, artist, craftsman and philosopher, Paolo Soleri is among the most important figures in modern architecture. His visionary urban designs, his monumental "urban laboratory," Arcosanti, constructed in the high Arizona desert, and, perhaps above all, his persuasively articulated philosophy of life, reflect a force of intellect and invention rare on the contemporary scene.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	9	(2)
Foreword	11	(8)
Jeffrey Cook
Beginnings, Ends and Means: An Introduction	19	(35)
John Strohmeier
Kathleen Ryan
December, 2000
The Evolution of the City	54	(15)
Jerry Brown
From Dialogues. December, 1995
The Architecture of Consciousness	69	(22)
From the Journal of the American Society of Church Architecture. December, 1973
A Container for Equity	91	(10)
Jonathan Pressler
From Noosphere. 1973
Survival or Transcendence	101	(24)
Michael Tobias
Michael Gosney
Tony Brown
Robert Radin
Ed Roxburgh
From Deep Ecology. 1982
Arcologies: Updating the Prognosis	125	(18)
Philip Arcidi
From Progressive Architecture. March, 1991
Citizens of the Cosmos
Jeffrey Cook
November, 2000	128	(15)
Index	143	(1)
Contacting Cosanti and Arcosanti	144