WEIRD FORMAT WEDNESDAY: Paolo Soleri Exhibition Catalogue - Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1969A 1969 exhi
WEIRD FORMAT WEDNESDAY: Paolo Soleri Exhibition Catalogue - Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1969A 1969 exhibition of work by the architect Paolo Soleri including drawings, plans and models. A bit about Paolo…“American architect of Italian birth. He received his doctorate in architecture from the polytechnic in Turin in 1946. A scholarship allowed him to travel to the USA, where he began working for Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West in January 1947. Disenchanted with Taliesin he left with his friend Mark Mills in September 1948. They set up camp in the Arizona desert under a crude cantilevered column constructed of concrete blocks. The following year, with a client, Leonora Woods, and her daughter Corolyn Woods, they built with their own hands a house in Cave Creek, AZ. It consisted of two spaces of opposite character: a living room roofed by two glass and aluminium domes and a bedroom wing dug deep into a hillside and enclosed in masonry walls similar to those at Wright’s Taliesin West. The house dealt with formal, thermal, and constructional issues that inspired Soleri throughout his career.”A bit about “Arcosanti”…Supported by grants from the Graham and Guggenheim Foundations, Soleri began to explore massive urban applications of his philosophies, initially in the City on the Mesa project (1958–67), an urban plan for two million inhabitants on a plot the size of Manhattan. Using huge translucent plastic models to depict his ideas, he designed numerous high-density cities that he called ‘arcologies’ from their combination of architecture and ecology. From the early 1970s he built his prototype ‘arcology’, Arcosanti, on 14 acres of an 860-acre parcel in the high desert of central Arizona. The project was intended eventually to house 5000 people in a 25-storey chain of futuristic buildings perched on the edge of a mesa.”-Oxford Art OnlineFind it in the CatalogSEE ALL WEIRD FORMAT WEDNESDAY POSTS -- source link
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