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We bake a whole lid into a batch of brownies for the drive from Roswell to the Indian School in Santa Fe where Linda Rondstadt and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band will play for us at the Paolo Soleri Amphitheatre.
Headstone Jane Hammons 2011
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Once a pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright, Soleri has been laboring to bring his dream of ecologically-minded architecture (which he calles "Arcology") to life in the desert.
May 2008 2008
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Long before green buildings entered popular vocabulary, futuristic eco-architect Paolo Soleri was pioneering his vision of an entire city — or arcology – structured in harmony with nature.
Gretchen | Inhabitat 2008
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Soleri will deliver the annual Cascieri 14 Lectureship in Humanities on April 20th and his work is also the subject of a gallery exhibition.
Gretchen | Inhabitat 2008
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Today, as oil prices rise again, and as gas tops $4.50 in some states, members of Arcosanti say there has been a renewed interest in the design, but even forty years after Soleri broke ground, the graying utopia is less than 10 percent of what the model promised.
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Asteromo, basically arcology-in-space conceived in the 60s by architect Paolo Soleri, who coincidentally started the desert techno-ashram Arcosanti, is an asteroid for a population of about 70,000 people.
Asteromo 2006
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Every part of each building is put to use (Soleri made sure that all roofs had stair access), and human waste is naturally taken care of by bacteria at the bottom of a swamp.
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Asteromo, basically arcology-in-space conceived in the 60s by architect Paolo Soleri, who coincidentally started the desert techno-ashram Arcosanti, is an asteroid for a population of about 70,000 people.
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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Still, the basic groundwork has been laid, and to a small degree Soleri, 89, is proving his point (if only to a small number of people).
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In an effort against urban sprawl, Soleri hoped to create a community based on density and efficiency (called "arcology," a mixture of architecture and ecology).
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