Conversations with Paolo Soleri
By: Paolo Soleri ; edited by Lissa McCullough
Contributors: McCullough, Lissa
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Conversations with students
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781616890551
Subjects: City planning; Interviews; Notebooks, sketchbooks; Architects; Architectural design
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Soleri : architecture as evolutionary quest / Lissa McCullough; title: Writings from Soleri's notebooks; title: Autobiographical musings; title: Orchid and forest; title: Responsibility of the architectural profession; title: The city as hyperorganism; title: The urban effect; title: The concept of arcology; title: Self-creating reality; title: The lean alternative; title: Esthetogenesis; title: The love project; title: A conversation with Paolo Soleri / Lissa McCullough, interviewer; title: Soleri's architecture in contemporary context / Marco Felici; title: Soleri's lean alternative in developing countries / Youngsoo Kim; title: Biographical overview  : Paolo Soleri (b. 1919).