Main entry:

Soleri, Paolo, 1919-2013.

Title & Author:

The bridge between matter & spirit is matter becoming spirit : the arcology of Paolo Soleri.

Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books, [1973]
©1973.

Description:

xiii, 253 pages ; 19 cm

Notes:
"A Doubleday anchor original."
This volume brings together the essays of Paolo Soleri in which he sets forth his philosophy of arcology (architecture ecology) and pleads for a new stage in the evolution of human society--a move toward compactness, or miniaturization, of our cities"--P. [4] of cover.
Preface -- The beautiful body is an awesome powerhouse -- A view of the United States : looking toward the bicentennial 1976 -- The new environment -- Topics and questions on arcology -- Function follows form (structure before performance) -- The craftsman and obsolescence -- Transarcology (in flight above Central Europe -- A Canadian alternative? -- Simulation and becoming -- Estheticism and esthetogenesis -- Man and separateness -- Psychosomatic man (psychology and environment -- Bulldozer man (earth moving) -- The sculpture earth -- Back to nature? -- The inner and the outer in arid land -- The quiet greed -- Pollution as entropy (gigantism as pollution) -- The flight from flatness (thoughts for elevator manufacturers) -- Going to nowhere, anyone? (the airport, a non-place) -- Utopia (toughts for the steel industry) -- Arcomedia -- The American withdrawl from America -- Joy and anguish in the lust bag (fragments for a doctrine).
Also issued online.
Library copy: illegible initials on 1st prelim. p., dated 10/78.

Summary:

"Paolo Soleri (21 June 1919- 9 April 2013) was an Italian-American architect. He established Arcosanti and the educational Cosanti Foundation. 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."--Wikipedia.

ISBN:

0385023618
9780385023610

Subject:

Soleri, Paolo, 1919-2013.
City planning.
Human ecology.
Sustainable architecture.
Écologie humaine.
Architecture durable.
human ecology.
Architects Italy 20th century.

Form/genre:

Essays.

Added entries:

Autographs. Illegible.
Provenance. Illegible. Autograph.

Bridge between matter and spirit is matter becoming spirit
Arcology of Paolo Soleri
Matter becoming spirit

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 283407
Call No.: BIB 221576
Status: Available