Paolo Soleri, LDS ID GH8K-C73, was the second of three children of Pia and Emilio Soleri. Emilio Soleri was an accountant.
He received a PhD in Architecture from Polytechnic University of Turin in 1947. He then apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West, Arizona, for 18 months.
He designed and built Cosanti, his studio, gallery, foundry, and home, in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1956.
Paolo envisioned arcology, an ideology combining ecology, architecture, and human interaction. He bought 860 acres of desert land along the Agua Fria River near Cordes Junction, Arizona, for the construction of Arcosanti, the first arcological city.
From then to the present, he held workshops at Arcosanti and all of the construction was built by the workshopers themselves. Those attending his workshops included architectural students, sculptors, and potters. It was a wonderful, enlightening experience for all who participated.
He married at age 30 in Maricopa Co., Arizona (marriage license date September 26, 1949), Corolyn "Colly" Woods, GH8K-3G6, age 24, daughter of Leonora B. and Lawrence Crane Woods, Jr. Their Affidavit for Marriage License was made September 26, 1949.
They had two children.
1. Kristine Soleri, m. (?) Trimm
2. Daniela "Dee Dee" Soleri, b. 1958
From LDS Family Search, Soleri's published books, Arcosanti books, obituary below, and findagrave contributors Karen Danielsen-Lang (#47875235) and Elaine Downey (46866605).
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Obituary from an article by Fred A. Bernstein published in the New York Times, April 10, 2013:
Paolo Soleri, a visionary architect who was best known as the designer and oracle of Arcosanti, a settlement in the Arizona high desert that became a symbol of hippie-era utopianism and a prescient environmentalism, died on Tuesday at Cosanti, his home in Paradise Valley, Ariz. He was 93.
Soleri, who apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1940s, developed a philosophy he called arcology — architecture coupled with ecology — that some saw as an answer to suburban sprawl. It involved building densely packed, bee-hive-like buildings that “held out a promise of not just an alternative architecture but alternative culture,” the architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote in The New York Times in 1989.
Soleri’s basic idea was that architecture and ecology are inseparable in their effect on people.
Soleri pursued his philosophy with a single-mindedness into his 90s, stepping down as president of the Cosanti Foundation at 92. Even as his ideas seemed to go out of fashion, he continued to work on Arcosanti — his “urban laboratory” — about 70 miles north of Phoenix.
Soleri wrote books and essays, and his drawings have been shown in museums and published in lavish volumes. Reviewing one exhibition, at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington in 1970, the Times critic Ada Louise Huxtable called the renderings “some of the most spectacularly sensitive and superbly visionary drawings that any century has known.”
He received a PhD in Architecture from Polytechnic University of Turin in 1947. He then apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West, Arizona, for 18 months.
He designed and built Cosanti, his studio, gallery, foundry, and home, in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1956.
Paolo envisioned arcology, an ideology combining ecology, architecture, and human interaction. He bought 860 acres of desert land along the Agua Fria River near Cordes Junction, Arizona, for the construction of Arcosanti, the first arcological city.
From then to the present, he held workshops at Arcosanti and all of the construction was built by the workshopers themselves. Those attending his workshops included architectural students, sculptors, and potters. It was a wonderful, enlightening experience for all who participated.
He married at age 30 in Maricopa Co., Arizona (marriage license date September 26, 1949), Corolyn "Colly" Woods, GH8K-3G6, age 24, daughter of Leonora B. and Lawrence Crane Woods, Jr. Their Affidavit for Marriage License was made September 26, 1949.
They had two children.
1. Kristine Soleri, m. (?) Trimm
2. Daniela "Dee Dee" Soleri, b. 1958
From LDS Family Search, Soleri's published books, Arcosanti books, obituary below, and findagrave contributors Karen Danielsen-Lang (#47875235) and Elaine Downey (46866605).
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Obituary from an article by Fred A. Bernstein published in the New York Times, April 10, 2013:
Paolo Soleri, a visionary architect who was best known as the designer and oracle of Arcosanti, a settlement in the Arizona high desert that became a symbol of hippie-era utopianism and a prescient environmentalism, died on Tuesday at Cosanti, his home in Paradise Valley, Ariz. He was 93.
Soleri, who apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1940s, developed a philosophy he called arcology — architecture coupled with ecology — that some saw as an answer to suburban sprawl. It involved building densely packed, bee-hive-like buildings that “held out a promise of not just an alternative architecture but alternative culture,” the architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote in The New York Times in 1989.
Soleri’s basic idea was that architecture and ecology are inseparable in their effect on people.
Soleri pursued his philosophy with a single-mindedness into his 90s, stepping down as president of the Cosanti Foundation at 92. Even as his ideas seemed to go out of fashion, he continued to work on Arcosanti — his “urban laboratory” — about 70 miles north of Phoenix.
Soleri wrote books and essays, and his drawings have been shown in museums and published in lavish volumes. Reviewing one exhibition, at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington in 1970, the Times critic Ada Louise Huxtable called the renderings “some of the most spectacularly sensitive and superbly visionary drawings that any century has known.”
Paolo Soleri, LDS ID GH8K-C73, was the second of three children of Pia and Emilio Soleri. Emilio Soleri was an accountant.
He received a PhD in Architecture from Polytechnic University of Turin in 1947. He then apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West, Arizona, for 18 months.
He designed and built Cosanti, his studio, gallery, foundry, and home, in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1956.
Paolo envisioned arcology, an ideology combining ecology, architecture, and human interaction. He bought 860 acres of desert land along the Agua Fria River near Cordes Junction, Arizona, for the construction of Arcosanti, the first arcological city.
From then to the present, he held workshops at Arcosanti and all of the construction was built by the workshopers themselves. Those attending his workshops included architectural students, sculptors, and potters. It was a wonderful, enlightening experience for all who participated.
He married at age 30 in Maricopa Co., Arizona (marriage license date September 26, 1949), Corolyn "Colly" Woods, GH8K-3G6, age 24, daughter of Leonora B. and Lawrence Crane Woods, Jr. Their Affidavit for Marriage License was made September 26, 1949.
They had two children.
1. Kristine Soleri, m. (?) Trimm
2. Daniela "Dee Dee" Soleri, b. 1958
From LDS Family Search, Soleri's published books, Arcosanti books, obituary below, and findagrave contributors Karen Danielsen-Lang (#47875235) and Elaine Downey (46866605).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Obituary from an article by Fred A. Bernstein published in the New York Times, April 10, 2013:
Paolo Soleri, a visionary architect who was best known as the designer and oracle of Arcosanti, a settlement in the Arizona high desert that became a symbol of hippie-era utopianism and a prescient environmentalism, died on Tuesday at Cosanti, his home in Paradise Valley, Ariz. He was 93.
Soleri, who apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1940s, developed a philosophy he called arcology — architecture coupled with ecology — that some saw as an answer to suburban sprawl. It involved building densely packed, bee-hive-like buildings that “held out a promise of not just an alternative architecture but alternative culture,” the architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote in The New York Times in 1989.
Soleri’s basic idea was that architecture and ecology are inseparable in their effect on people.
Soleri pursued his philosophy with a single-mindedness into his 90s, stepping down as president of the Cosanti Foundation at 92. Even as his ideas seemed to go out of fashion, he continued to work on Arcosanti — his “urban laboratory” — about 70 miles north of Phoenix.
Soleri wrote books and essays, and his drawings have been shown in museums and published in lavish volumes. Reviewing one exhibition, at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington in 1970, the Times critic Ada Louise Huxtable called the renderings “some of the most spectacularly sensitive and superbly visionary drawings that any century has known.”
He received a PhD in Architecture from Polytechnic University of Turin in 1947. He then apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West, Arizona, for 18 months.
He designed and built Cosanti, his studio, gallery, foundry, and home, in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1956.
Paolo envisioned arcology, an ideology combining ecology, architecture, and human interaction. He bought 860 acres of desert land along the Agua Fria River near Cordes Junction, Arizona, for the construction of Arcosanti, the first arcological city.
From then to the present, he held workshops at Arcosanti and all of the construction was built by the workshopers themselves. Those attending his workshops included architectural students, sculptors, and potters. It was a wonderful, enlightening experience for all who participated.
He married at age 30 in Maricopa Co., Arizona (marriage license date September 26, 1949), Corolyn "Colly" Woods, GH8K-3G6, age 24, daughter of Leonora B. and Lawrence Crane Woods, Jr. Their Affidavit for Marriage License was made September 26, 1949.
They had two children.
1. Kristine Soleri, m. (?) Trimm
2. Daniela "Dee Dee" Soleri, b. 1958
From LDS Family Search, Soleri's published books, Arcosanti books, obituary below, and findagrave contributors Karen Danielsen-Lang (#47875235) and Elaine Downey (46866605).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Obituary from an article by Fred A. Bernstein published in the New York Times, April 10, 2013:
Paolo Soleri, a visionary architect who was best known as the designer and oracle of Arcosanti, a settlement in the Arizona high desert that became a symbol of hippie-era utopianism and a prescient environmentalism, died on Tuesday at Cosanti, his home in Paradise Valley, Ariz. He was 93.
Soleri, who apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1940s, developed a philosophy he called arcology — architecture coupled with ecology — that some saw as an answer to suburban sprawl. It involved building densely packed, bee-hive-like buildings that “held out a promise of not just an alternative architecture but alternative culture,” the architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote in The New York Times in 1989.
Soleri’s basic idea was that architecture and ecology are inseparable in their effect on people.
Soleri pursued his philosophy with a single-mindedness into his 90s, stepping down as president of the Cosanti Foundation at 92. Even as his ideas seemed to go out of fashion, he continued to work on Arcosanti — his “urban laboratory” — about 70 miles north of Phoenix.
Soleri wrote books and essays, and his drawings have been shown in museums and published in lavish volumes. Reviewing one exhibition, at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington in 1970, the Times critic Ada Louise Huxtable called the renderings “some of the most spectacularly sensitive and superbly visionary drawings that any century has known.”
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