Main entry:

Soleri, Paolo, 1919-2013.

Title & Author:

Conversations with Paolo Soleri / Paolo Soleri ; edited by Lissa McCullough.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2012.

Description:

96 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series:

Conversations with students

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Soleri : architecture as evolutionary quest / Lissa McCullough -- Writings from Soleri's notebooks -- Autobiographical musings -- Orchid and forest -- Responsibility of the architectural profession -- The city as hyperorganism -- The urban effect -- The concept of arcology -- Self-creating reality -- The lean alternative -- Esthetogenesis -- The love project -- A conversation with Paolo Soleri / Lissa McCullough, interviewer -- Soleri's architecture in contemporary context / Marco Felici -- Soleri's lean alternative in developing countries / Youngsoo Kim -- Biographical overview : Paolo Soleri (b. 1919).

Summary:

Paolo Soleri's architectural-philosophical thinking sets forth fundamental reformulations to address the globalizing world's most urgent environmental, urban infrastructural, and socio-ethical problems. In this book, Soleri's most recent philosophical-architectural ideas are distilled into a concentrated overview that is more accessible to the general reader than his previous books. Soleri proposes to transform our societal systems while raising the sights of the reader to a radically long-term and humanistic perspective. Among the interrelated concepts outlined here are Soleri's highly original ideas of orchid and forest, the city as hyper-organism, the urban effect, and the love project, to name a few. These inspiring ideas are acutely timely in light of current environmental trends: responding to global climate change, radically reducing oil dependence, embracing frugality and reduced consumption, while simultaneously confronting issues of suburban sprawl, urban renewal, smart land use, and wise food production. Compiled from Soleri's most recent personal notebooks (2004 2009), this work includes an original interview covering the breadth of his architectural and educational career and essays by Marco Felici and Youngsoo Kim.

Resources:
ebrary

ISBN:

9781616890551 (alk. paper)
161689055X (alk. paper)

Subject:

Soleri, Paolo, 1919-2013 Interviews.
Soleri, Paolo, 1919-2013 Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Soleri, Paolo, 1919-2013
Architects Italy Interviews.
Architectural design.
City planning.
Architectes Italie Entretiens.
Design architectural.
Architecture and Planning.
Architects
Arkitekter Italien 1900-talet 2000-talet.
Arkitektur.
Stadsplanering.
Italy

Form/genre:

Interviews.
Writings.
interviews.
Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Added entries:

McCullough, Lissa.
Conversations with students.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278281
Call No.: BIB 213840
Status: Available