Paolo Soleri

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Paolo Soleri (born June 21, 1919 in Turin , † April 9, 2013 in Scottsdale , Arizona ) was an Italian architect , the inventor of the arcology movement ( arcology is a cross between architecture and ecology ) and builder of Arcosanti .

Life

Soleri was born in Turin in 1919. In 1933 the family fled from Italian fascism to Grenoble, France . Here Soleri first attended the "École d'Art Industriel". Between 1935 and 1939 the young Soleri continued his education at the Turin Academia Albertine in the Liceo Artistico. In 1941 he was accepted by the famous Turin Polytechnic, the Politecnico di Torino, and completed his studies with a doctorate in architecture.

In 1947 he visited the United States and did a year and a half internship with Frank Lloyd Wright in Taliesin West in Arizona and in Taliesin in Spring Green , Wisconsin . During his stay, he received international attention through the design of a bridge that was published in the book "The Architecture of Bridges" by Elizabeth Mock.

He returned to Italy in 1950 and received an order to build the large ceramic factory "Ceramica Artistica Solimene" in Vietri Sul Mare. Soleri studied the manufacture of ceramics, which later became very useful to him.

In 1956 he moved with his family to Scottsdale , Arizona . Soleri and his wife Colly devoted themselves to research projects and experimental urban planning. To this end, they set up a foundation called the Cosanti Foundation. In this he developed "Wright's theories of building and living in nature, including esotericism, and brought them to the time of the oil crisis and civilization skepticism." Soleri's philosophy and work showed strong influences from Jesuit paleontology and the philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin .

The main project of the Soleric Foundation became Arcosanti , a city for 5,000 inhabitants that Soleri had designed. It was not just about building, but about a utopia of communal, alienated life. The city has been built around 100 kilometers north of Phoenix since 1970 . Since construction began, around 6,000 sympathizers have supported Soleri in the construction of the city. The construction status in 2005 is approx. 1%.

Paolo Soleri's work has been exhibited around the world and is at the forefront of today's discussion on the sustainability of planning and building.

Since 1984 Soleri was a professor at Arizona State University . He has published several books as well as numerous essays and articles.

In the fall of 2011, at the age of 92, Soleri retired from all offices and functions. He died on April 9, 2013.

Prizes and awards

Soleri became a member of the "Graham Foundation" and the "Guggenheim Foundation". He has now received several honorary doctorates for his works. In 1963 he was awarded the gold medal of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). In 1981 he received the gold medal of the “World Biennale of Architecture” at INTERARCH in Sofia , Bulgaria , and the silver medal of the “Academie d'Architecture” in Paris . The 1984 “International Architecture Symposium 'Man and Space'” at the Vienna University of Technology attracted international attention, in which, in addition to Paolo Soleri, Bruno Zevi , Dennis Sharp , Pierre Vago , Jorge Glusberg , Otto Kapfinger , Frei Otto , Justus Dahinden and Ernst Gisel , Ionel Schein u. a. participated.

Fonts

  • Paolo Soleri: "Arcology: City in the Image of Man" , MIT Press 1970, ISBN 0262190605
  • Paolo Soleri: "Life Time Furniture Cloister Styles" , Gibbs Smith 1984, ISBN 0879054158
  • Paolo Soleri: "Arcosanti. Laboratory for Eco-Urbanity" , 1988, ISBN 3859143433
  • Paolo Soleri: "The Urban Ideal: Conversations with Paolo Soleri" , Berkeley Hills Books 2001, ISBN 1893163288

literature

  • Bernhard Widder: "Arcosanti. Urban Utopia in the Desert" , 1985

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://medium.com/@soleri/sexual-abuse-its-you-him-and-his-work-88ecb8e99648
  2. ↑ a b Jörg Häntzschel: The dreamer of Arcosanti , Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 11, 2013, page 13
  3. ↑ Michael Tortorello: An Early Eco-City Faces the Future. In: The New York Times , February 15, 2012 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Soleri, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin , Italy
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2013
Place of death Scottsdale , Arizona