{"id":13642,"date":"2013-04-11T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=13642"},"modified":"2013-04-11T03:31:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T02:31:25","slug":"paolo-soleri-1919-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/04\/11\/paolo-soleri-1919-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Paolo Soleri, 1919\u20132013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hexahedron, The City in the Image of Man (1969).<\/em><\/p>\n

“We must build up, not out,” said Soleri. “The problem is the present design of cities are only a few storeys high, stretching outward in unwieldy sprawl for miles…turning farms into parking lots, and waste enormous amounts of time and energy transporting people, goods and services over their expanses.”<\/p>\n

Paolo Soleri<\/a>, visionary architect, dies aged 93<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For obvious reasons, Paolo Soleri’s plans for kilometre-high megastructure cities towering over green landscapes were popular in science fiction books and magazines in the 1970s. Soleri’s solution to unstoppable urban sprawl seems eminently sensible despite the difficulties of building anything on this scale; complaints about undesirability can be countered (in Britain at least) with dismal stories such as this recent report<\/a>. Or maybe it’s better to live in a Hong Kong shoebox<\/a>? Soleri devoted most of his life to thinking about how architecture could better serve our limited planetary resources; with Arcosanti<\/a> he was leading by example.<\/p>\n

\u2022 LA Times: Paolo Soleri, architect of innovative city Arcosanti, dies at 93<\/a>
\n\u2022 Arch Daily: Paolo Soleri\u2019s Arcosanti : The City in the Image of Man<\/a>
\n\u2022 Architect Paolo Soleri \u2013 a life in pictures<\/a>
\n\u2022 Flickr: Arcosanti, An Urban Laboratory<\/a><\/p>\n

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Babel IIB, The City in the Image of Man (1969).<\/em><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The paper architecture of Brodsky and Utkin<\/a>
\n\u2022 Hugh Ferriss and The Metropolis of Tomorrow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hexahedron, The City in the Image of Man (1969). “We must build up, not out,” said Soleri. “The problem is the present design of cities are only a few storeys high, stretching outward in unwieldy sprawl for miles…turning farms into parking lots, and waste enormous amounts of time and energy transporting people, goods and services … Continue reading “Paolo Soleri, 1919\u20132013”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[398,167,4688],"class_list":["post-13642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-science-fiction","tag-hugh-ferriss","tag-obituaries","tag-paolo-soleri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3y2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}