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What was the residence of Paolo Soleri from 1947 to 1950?
Paolo Soleri Paolo Soleri ( 21 June 1919 – 9 April 2013 ) was an Italian architect . He established the educational Cosanti Foundation and Arcosanti . Soleri was a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006 . He coined the concept of arcology – a synthesis of architecture and ecology as the philosophy of democratic society . He died at home of natural causes on 9 April 2013 at the age of 93 . Soleri authored several books , including The Bridge Between Matter & Spirit is Matter Becoming Spirit and Arcology - City In the Image of Man . Early life . Soleri was born in Turin , Italy , Europe . He was awarded his laurea ( masters degree ) in architecture from the Politecnico di Torino in 1946 . He visited the United States in December 1946 and spent a year and a half in fellowship with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West in Arizona , and at Taliesin in Spring Green , Wisconsin . During this time , he gained international recognition for a bridge design that was displayed at the Museum of Modern Art . In 1950 , Soleri , with his wife Colly ( née Corolyn Woods ) , returned to Italy where he was commissioned to build a large ceramics factory , Ceramica Artistica Solimene , in Vietri on the Amalfi coast . Soleri adapted ceramics industry processes learned at this time to use in his award-winning designs and production of ceramic and bronze windbells and silt-cast architectural structures . For more than 40 years , proceeds from sales of the wind-bells have been an important source of funds for construction that is meant to test his theoretical work . Ceramic and bronze bells continue to be produced and sold at Arcosanti and Cosanti in Arizona . In 1956 , Soleri settled in Scottsdale , Arizona , with Colly and the elder of their two daughters ; the younger was born in Arizona . He began building Arcosanti in 1970 with the help of architecture and design students , as a place to test his urban design hypotheses . This urban laboratory ( so-dubbed by Ada Louise Huxtable , who at the time was the architectural critic of The NY Times ) became internationally renowned . Paolo and Colly Soleri made a lifelong commitment to research and experimentation in urban planning . They established the Cosanti Foundation , a 501-3C educational non-profit foundation . Soleris philosophy and works were strongly influenced by the Jesuit paleontologist and philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin . Soleri died on 9 April 2013 and was buried at Arcosanti in its private cemetery , beside his wife . Arcosanti . The Cosanti Foundations major project is Arcosanti . Arcosanti , as originally designed by Soleri , was intended for 5,000 people ; it has been in construction since 1970 . Located near Cordes Junction , about north of Phoenix and visible from Interstate I-17 in central Arizona , the intention of the project is to provide a model that can demonstrate Soleris concept of Arcology , architecture coherent with ecology . Arcology was envisioned by Soleri as a hyper-dense city , designed to : maximize human interaction with ready access to shared , cost-effective infrastructural services ; conserve water and reduce sewage ; minimize the use of energy , raw materials and land ; reduce waste and environmental pollution ; increase interaction with the surrounding natural environment . In 2010 , construction was underway to complete Arcosantis Greenhouse Apron , but that initiative was put on hold not long after Soleris death in 2013 . Arcosanti is intended as a prototype of a desert arcology . Soleris other arcology designs envisioned sites such as the ocean ( Nova Noah ) , et al . ( see : Arcology : City in the Image of Man ) . Since 1970 , over 7000 people have participated in Arcosantis construction . Their international affiliation group is called the Arcosanti Alumni Network . Other achievements . The International Architecture Symposium Mensch und Raum ( Man and Space ) at the Vienna University of Technology in 1984 received international attention . Paolo Soleri participated with , among others : Justus Dahinden , Dennis Sharp , Bruno Zevi , Jorge Glusberg , Otto Kapfinger , Frei Otto , Pierre Vago , Ernst Gisel , and Ionel Schein . Soleri was a distinguished lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a member of the Lindisfarne Association . In 1966 , Paolo Soleri began working on the design for the Paolo Soleri Amphitheater in Santa Fe , New Mexico . It was built for the IAIA ( Institute of American Indian Arts ) on what is now the campus of the Santa Fe Indian School using large silt cast forms . The property is owned by the nineteen Native American Pueblos of New Mexico and is therefore not protected by local or state preservation laws . A landmark exhibition , City in the Image of Man - The Architectural Visions of Paolo Soleri , organized in 1970 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington , DC , traveled extensively thereafter in the U.S . and Canada , breaking records for attendance . Two Suns Arcology , A Concept for Future Cities opened in 1976 at the Xerox Square Center in Rochester , New York . In 1989 , Paolo Soleri Habitats : Ecologic Minutiae , an exhibition of arcologies , space habitats , and bridges , was presented at the New York Academy of Sciences . More recently , Soleris Cities , Architecture for the Planet Earth and Beyond was featured at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts in Scottsdale , AZ . A Soleri bell appears in the film What the *Bleep* Do We Know ? His work has been exhibited worldwide . In 1976 , Paolo Soleri was a key participant at UN Habitat I , the first UN forum on human settlements , held it Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada , North America . Soleri appeared there together with Buckminster Fuller . The Paolo Soleri Archives , the collection of Soleris drawings and writings , is located at Arcosanti . The Soleri Archives is managed by Sue Kirsch under the direction of Tomiaki Tamura , a Cosanti Board Trustee and Arcosantis Director of Special Projects . Tomiaki Tamura resides at Arcosanti . An interview with Soleri was featured in the environmental documentary The 11th Hour ( 2007 ) . On 10 December 2010 , the Soleri Bridge and Plaza was completed . The structure had been commissioned by Scottsdale Public Art . The pedestrian bridge based on Paolo Soleris design is located on the South Bank of the Arizona Canal and connects a developed retail area of the Scottsdale Waterfront with Old Town Scottsdale . The bridge is incorporated into a plaza including silt cast artwork , as well as a large bell assembly called The Goldwater Bell , also designed by Paolo Soleri . The feature-length documentary film ( 2013 ) contains interviews with Morley Safer , Paul Goldberger , Catherine Hardwicke , Will Bruder , Jean-Michel Cousteau , Steven Holl , and Eric Lloyd Wright . Awards . Soleri received fellowships from the Graham Foundation and from the Guggenheim Foundation ( 1964 , Architecture , Planning , & Design ) . He was awarded three honorary doctorates and several awards from design groups worldwide : - 1963 – American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Craftmanship - 1981 – Gold Medal at the World Bienniale of Architecture held by the International Academy of Architecture in Sofia , Bulgaria - 1984 – Silver Medal of the Academie d Architecture in Paris - 1996 – Honorary Fellow , Royal Institute of British Architects - 2000 – Leone doro at the Venice Biennale of Architecture for his lifelong achievement - 2006 – Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for lifetime achievement Sexual abuse allegation . In October 2010 , Daniela Soleri – Paolo Soleris daughter – resigned from the Cosanti Foundation board , citing abuse by her father . She stated that some of Soleris inner circle had been told decades earlier , but nothing had been done about it at the time . After the resignation , Soleri stepped down as chairman , but the board made no public statement on the reasons . After the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art had a major retrospective exhibition on Paolo Soleri in October 2017 , Daniela published an article on the website Medium on 13 November 2017 accusing her father of persistent sexual abuse , writing : In my early adolescence , my father , an architect and craftsman , began sexually molesting me , eventually attempting rape when I was 17 . Encouraged to publish the article by the #MeToo movement , Daniela wrote that she had already come forward to many of her fathers colleagues but received little response : In the article , Daniela wrote about her lingering admiration for some of Soleris work and ideas . However , she also warned against uncritical praise of artists with abusive tendencies and the tendency to accept abusive behavior as a necessary and justified cost for the contributions of intellect or creativity . Of her father , Daniela wrote : As noted in Dezeen , Danielas article suggested that she had approached The New York Times or other news publishers to discuss her fathers abuse , but had been turned away . The Cosanti Foundation Board released an official statement in response to Daniela Soleris : Curbed editor-in-chief Kelsey Keith wrote [ Daniela ] Soleris account is breathtaking not only for its thorough and very personal reckoning with the truth , but for its clear-eyed articulation of the reasons why assigning all intellectual power to a solitary genius is so harmful . Keith noted that architecture as a profession hasnt ( yet ) experienced its Weinstein moment , referring to the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations and the resulting Weinstein effect of reporting sexual misconduct committed by powerful men in media and other industries . In a 2018 Curbed article , Hilary George-Parkin said : While Hollywood , tech , sports , media , politics , the restaurant industry , and others are reeling from high-profile revelations and resignations , the design world has remained—with the notable exception of Daniela Soleris account of sexual abuse by her father , architect Paolo Soleri—mostly undisturbed in the public realm .