Back in Italy, continued education at Torino Liceo Artistico, Academia Albertina

After apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright, Soleri remained in the desert camping near Phoenix and collaborated with Mark Mills in designing and constructing a glass-domed house (The Dome House) in Cave Creek, which received wide recognition and publication for incorporating passive principles for heating and cooling • Published in Built in U.S.A.: Post-War Architecture, edited by Henry Russell Hitchcock and Arthur Drexler • Arizonian Portfolio: Collection of small habitat designs

Married the Dome House client's daughter • Returned to Italy. Undertook research and in 1951 submitted proposal, "Cosmic Potentials," to Massachusetts Institute of Technology investigating relationship of sun energy expressed in infrared, hydrologic power and tidal changes to human habitats.

Received grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts for work on his Mesa City project.

Awarded AIA (American Institute of Architects) Gold Medal for Craftsmanship • Sponsorship begun of Workshops accredited by the College of Architecture, Arizona State University at Tempe, for the construction of studios and other structures to house Cosanti Foundation facilities.

Cosanti Foundation incorporated in Arizona • A second Guggenheim Fellowship awarded for further research in the arcology concept • Presented a paper, "The Genesis of Leisure," to the fourth annual Symposium on American Values, Man Working, Central Washington State College.

Received a Guggenheim grant to complete the work that ultimately was published by the M.I.T. Press in Arcology: The City in the Image of Man (1969).

Funded by Rutgers University, embarked upon project to design an urban transportation system nucleus in the State of New Jersey: "3-D Jersey" which resulted in a single-structure, three-dimensional city design to be located in the New York-Philadelphia corridor. The Ford Motor Company contributed computer time to supply essential data relating to transportation within this structure for one million people.

Publication of "The Bridge Between Matter and Spirit is Matter Becoming Spirit" (Doubleday) • Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ.

"Two Suns Arcology--The City Energized by the Sun," of designs for large and small settlements sited in various climate zones around the world, opened at Xerox Square in Rochester, NY., underwritten by the Xerox Corporation and the Cosanti Foundation. American tour of this exhibit organized by the Association of Science and Technology Centers. Launched lecture-exhibit • Toward Arcology - Works In Progress (The Van Show), touring to thirty American universities •
Received commission to design Indio Palm Park Center for Riverside County (CA.) - a park center utilizing solar energy for intensive horticulture, heating and cooling of the facility.

Elected member of the International Academy of Philosophy of Art, Switzerland • The Third Generation Arcology.

Soleri's work was included in an exhibition, Utopian Visions in Modern Art presented at the Hirshhorn Museum,Washington, D.C.

Soleri's work was included in an exhibition, Yesterday's Tomorrows, presented at the National Museum • Awarded Silver Medal for Research and Technics, Academy of Architecture, Paris • Publication of "Paolo Soleri's Earth Casting: For Sculpture, Models and Construction" (Peregrine-Smith).

Soleri's Cities: Architecture for the Planet Earth and Beyond was presented at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts in fall • Historic Planning Pioneer Award, Arizona Planning Association.

Received commission to design pedestrian bridges for canal project in Scottsdale, AZ. • Hyper Building Arcology design commissioned by the Japanese Hyper Building Research Committee. Presented at the Hyper Building Symposium in Tokyo, October 1996 • Inducted as an Honorary Fellow at Royal Insitute of British Architects. Received Governor's Art Award, Phoenix, Arizona • Excellence in Concrete Award by the Arizona Chapter of the American Concrete Institute for the Glendale Community College Amphitheater.

Nudging Space Arcology, A theoretical urban development • New World Trade Center Exhibitions at Max Protetch Gallery, NYC, at National Building Museum, Washington D.C., and at La Bienale di Venezia, Venice, Italy • Paolo Soleri: Collection of Artwork Exhibition at Paradise Valley Municipal Building, AZ • Publication of "What If? - Collected Writings 1986-200" (Berkeley Hills Books).

Cosmos-Eros-Arcology Exhibition, Vanier Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ. • Commendatore della Repubblica Italiana, for excellence in the field of arts and sciences, awarded by Consul General of Italy, Massimo Roscigno at State of Arizona Capital, presented by Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano • Trailblazer Award Winner  IFDA [International Furnishings and Design Association] at the 2003 National Conference in Scottsdale Arizona.