Sustainable Urbanization Conference presentation at the Eastern China Normal University [Normal Teaching], in Shanghai, was also organized by John Cobb's group. Alumnus Francis Frick translates Paolo's lecture.
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Kunshan, a city between Suzhou and Shanghai, is one of many mid-size cities China is developing. The goal of city amenities for a population of 1.3 million in the size of MESA CITY footprint will be easily met.
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Shanghai night scape.
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Soleri's Tongji University lecture in Shanghai attracted a full capacity audience. The follow up seminar next day was attended by post-graduate and PhD students.
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Interior construction steadily continues on the East Crescent complex. Construction Intern Melissa Soluski welds a railing on the 2nd floor balcony.
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Workshop participants Kristin Lieser and Cathy Mulkern secure sheet rock to a closet in one of the two rooms on the second floor of Unit 7.
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Workshop participants and construction interns install sheet rock along a curved wall in the main room on the second floor of Unit 7. [from left] Stefan Grace, Melissa Solushi, Lindsey Clark and Cathy Mulkern.
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Brendan Scott, on-site electrician, hooks up electrical wiring on ceiling light fixtures.
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The International Conference TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE URBANIZATION in Suzhou, China from October 14 - 17. 2005, was hosted by the Institute for Postmodern Development in China.
Paolo Soleri, John Cobb and alumnus Francis Frick.
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Conference participants at Sozhou Industrial Park. This area was originally developed by Singapore and other foreign investors and now thrives as a the city's new economic development section.
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Conference participants visit the water play at Jinsi Garden in Suzhou.
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Paolo, Tomiaki and alumnus Francis Frick enjoy a dinner hosted by the owner of Jinsi Gardens [with microphone]. Tomiaki reports that every night is a series of sumptuous banquets. The lecture tour continues with a presentation at SUSTAINABLE URBANIZATION Conference at the Eastern China Normal University in Shanghai. Report and images of this will be posted 10/31.
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An International Conference TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE URBANIZATION was held in Suzhou, China on October 14 - 17. 2005. The aim of the conference is to rethink current forms of urbanization and to envision and promote new concepts of urbanization in China and the West. Paolo Soleri, visionary architect and creator of the concept of ARCHITECTURAL ECOLOGY or ARCOLOGY, delivers the keynote address.
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Following the visit to Rome, with only a 2-day stop at Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri and Tomiaki Tamura set off to China. Paolo's participation in this conference was arranged by John Cobb of Claremont School of Theology. Paolo Soleri and long-time friend and associate John Cobb on a bus to the conference center.
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Alumnus Francis Frick currently resides in Hong Kong and joins Paolo and Tomiaki at a group session during the conference in Suzhou. Paolo presents SOLARE, A LINEAR CITY at this event and other conferences during this 2-week visit to China. Paolo conceived the SOLARE design as a proposal for a rational approach to the tremendous growth of the building industry in China.
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Lady Jing Yan, a presenter at the conference, turns tour guide at the Master of Nets Garden, one of the many Suzhou gardens. More on this conference on 10/26.
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Paolo Soleri reviews mounted scroll drawings of the 3-part plan for Mesa City, a few hours before the opening of the exhibition at the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Palazzo Poli. With Paolo is Sandra Suatoni, the curator of the exhibition.
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Serenita Papaldo [in the middle] is the Directore of the Italian National Institute For Writings And Drawings [Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica]. It is thanks to an amazing 3-year effort on the part of Directore Serenita Papaldo and Curator Sandra Suatoni, that this exhibition has come togehter. Serenita Papaldo enjoys custom made snacks, identified as un dolce per Paolo Soleri, Soleri Sweets, prepared by the MAXXI, to celebrate the opening.
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Paolo Soleri meets journalists and many Arcosanti alumni after the press conference at the MAXXI, the National Museum for the 21st Century.
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Cosanti Foundation Vice President and Director of Soleri Archives, Tomiaki Tamura, Paolo Soleri, Planning Intern Kim Young Soo and Cosanti Foundation Human Resources Manager and Italian Project Coordinator Matteo Di Michele
celebrate the event at MAXXI, the National Museum for the 21st Century.
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During three very busy days, prior to the opening of the exhibition, Paolo Soleri visited with some of Italy's leading architects, Luca Zevi, Manfredi Nicoletti and Mario Botta.
Matteo Di Michele, Paolo Soleri and Luca Zevi have a quick visit of the premises of the Bruno Zevi Foundation.
Paolo Soleri and Luca Zevi review projects at Luca Zevis architectural firm in central Rome.
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Paolo Soleri visits with Manfredi Nicoletti at the Nicoletti Architectural firm in central Rome.
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Mario Botta and Paolo Soleri meet briefly before a conference at the Villa Medici, Rome.
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Paolo was graciously invited to stay at the American Academy in downtown Rome during his 5-day stay for the opening of the exhibition.
In the beautiful garden of the American Academy, Paolo is interviewed by Flores Flores Zanchi, chief editor of Floornature, an popular Italian on-line magazine for Architecture and Design.
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This is the eleventh year that HUMAN NATURE Dance Theater spends a week of intensive workshops and nightly performances at the Colly Soleri Music Center. The theme of this seasons exercise TOUCH AND GO explored through movement how we relate to each other. The final performance on Saturday evening celebrated an event of freeform and spontaneity and expressed a humorous yet very sensitive look at the frailty and beauty of human relationships.
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The international cast consists of nine eclectic performers: Jayne Lee, Delisa Myles, Paul Moore, Mizu Desierto, Francis Martineau, Nate Montgomery, Lance Israel, Leandro Soto and Joanna Rotkin. For more information on the group visit their web-site at Human Nature.
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Staff and workshop participants worked the many tasks that make each event at Arcosanti a treat to its visitors and participants. Architect Haley Jovi Cazarini Bueno polishes plates for the evenings gourmet dinner. Construction intern Melissa Soluski helps with dinner preparation.
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Chefs Eleanor Gillis and Erika Perez, with help from Construction intern Linsey Clark, prepare another delicious menu of Roasted Eggplant Coconut Soup, Mixed Green Salad with Sweet Pecans, Blue Cheese, Pears and Arcosanti Peach Vinaigrette Dressing, Crispy Polenta Rounds, Green Beans with Mustard-Dill Sauce, Butternut Squash with Creamy Leeks, Pork stewed with Fruit and Port and Bread Pudding with Lemon Sauce.
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Welcome to October 9. 2005 workshop participants:
[top from left] Francesca Oliveira [seminar week only], Scott Sell, Shakti Pearce, behind Shakti is Joan Lundell, Cathy Mulkern, Franklin Walker, and Martin Mathis [seminar week only]. [front from left] Rebecca Lincoln-Rowson, Janet Thompson and alumnus Anthony Thompson [both seminar week only], and Stefan Grace. Alumnus Anthony Thompson was part of the October 1973 and the July 1975 workshop. Inset: Puja Gupta.[Photo & text: sa]
Colly Soleri Music Center welcomes back HUMAN NATURE Dance Theater. This is the 11th year that this group from Flagstaff, AZ comes for a 7-day workshop. Morning, afternoon and evening practice and performances accumulate in a public performance on Saturday evening, October 15. 2005.
The performance this year, TOUCH AND GO takes a humorous yet sensitive look at how we relate to each other. How do we touch each other? What is taboo? What connects us? It addresses intimacy, attraction, sexuality, aggression, tenderness andloss. The show is challenging, bold and full of questions. Dinner will be served at 6:00 pm and the performance starts at 7:30 pm. Arcosanti Chef Eleanor Gillis Menu for this event is: Roasted Eggplant Coconut Soup, Mixed Green Salad with Sweet Pecans, Blue Cheese, Pears and Arcosanti Peach Vinaigrette Dressing, Crispy Polenta Rounds, Green Beans with Mustard-Dill Sauce, Butternut Squash with Creamy Leeks, Pork stewed with Fruit and Port and Bread Pudding with Lemon Sauce. For more information on please click Human Nature Performance.[Photo & Text: sa]
Paolo Soleri, Site Coordinator Tomiaki Tamura and Human Resources Manager Matteo Di Michele, returned from Rome with glowing reports of a very successful opening of PAOLO SOLERI - ETHICS AND URBAN INVENTIVENESS.
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The first part of the exhibition opened on October the 7. at 5:30 pm at the ING International Institue of Graphics in the Palazzo De Trevi.
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A perfect display space for some of the Soleri scroll drawings.
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The opening ceremony at the second location, MAXXI, The Department for Architecture and Contemporary Art's National Museum for the 21st Century, took place also on October 7, at 7:00 pm. For previous reports on this exhibition, please use Search Today@Arcosanti - exhibition.
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Cosanti Foundation welcomes Dinah Yessne to the new position of On-Site Tourism and Guest Services Manager. Dinah returned in mid September to start this position. Dinah completed her workshop in March 2003 and returned for three month in February 2005 to set up the Human Resources Department, which now is headed by Matteo Di Michele.
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Guest services had a busy week last week. On Monday, Sept. 26, a group of 40 architecture students from
SCIARC School of Architecture in Los Angeles visited for an over-night stay. The students met with Paolo Soleri for a question and answer session.
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Arizona Planning Association had their annual conference in Prescott AZ. During this event fifteen city planners visited Arcosanti on Friday, Sept. 30. for lunch and a special tour. They also met with Paolo Soleri for a session of questions and answers.
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Dinah's back-ground is in Law and Public Administration. The new office of On-Site Tourism and Guest Services is at the first floor of the bell tower in the Crafts III building.
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This Friday evening, October 7. 2005 is the formal opening ceremony of PAOLO SOLERI - ETHICS AND URBAN INVENTIVENESS The ceremony will open the exhibition at 5:30 pm at the ING International Institue of Graphics located in the Palazzo De Trevi.
The opening ceremony of the second location, MAXXI Department for Architecture and Contemporary Art's National Museum, will be on the same evening at 7:00 pm.[Image: ING & text: sa]
Preparation at ING Institue of Graphics.
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Preparation at ING Institue of Graphics.
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Preparation at the MAXXI Department for Architecture and Contemporary Art's National Museum for the 21st Century. Both locations will open to the public on October 8. 2005 through January 8 2006.
The opening ceremony at the third location, Casa Dell'Architettura, the main location of the Roman Association of Professional Architects and the former Roman Aquarium, will be at 7:00 pm on October 14. 2005 and this location will open to the public on October 15. 2005. For many previous reports on this exhibition, please use Search Today@Arcosanti - exhibition.[Photo:tt & text: sa]
The 24th Annual Colly Concert featured Sonya Kumiko Lee. Sonya delighted her audience with a passionate and powerful performance of pieces by J.S. Bach, Beethoven, three modern pieces by Alberto Ginastera, the Dumka by Tchaikovsky and pieces by Chopin.
Sonya Lee began her musical studies at the age of three. Since winning her first competition at age seven, Sonya Lee has gone on to win top prizes in national and international piano competitions. Sonya Lee has been heard in concert in such halls as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincol Center, Steinway Hall, the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, Colorado, the Salles de Colonnes at the Chateau Fontainebleau and Bel Ebat Parc in France, Aoyama Hall in Osaka, Japan and the Honeni Temple in Kyoto, Japan among other. Miss Lee has been the featured soloist with festival orchestras throughtout Southern California and the with Juilliard Alumni Champer Orchestra at the Proshansky Auditorium at City Universities in NYC. In 1998 Miss Lee was presented in her NY Recital Debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall as the winner of Artist International's Debut Series Award. The following year, Miss Lee recived the Outstanding Alumni Series Award in Piano and was presented in her Lincol Center Recital Debut at Alice Tull Hall. Last October, Miss Lee was presented in her Japan Recital debuts in Osaka and Kyoto, Japan. In the spring, Miss Lee was invited to give a lecture/recital for the acting students of NYU in conjunction with the Stella Adler Conservatory. In May 2005, Miss Lee returned to Japan to give a master class and to give a guest performance at the World Music Day Festival in Osaka. Miss Lee holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from The Juilliard School where she was the studen of Oxana Yablonskaya and Emanues Ax. This was Miss Lee's fifth appearance at the Colly Soleri Music Center.[Photo: sa & text: Cosanti Foundation]
Sonya-Kumico Lee is the daughter of alumnus Doug Lee, who worked with Paolo Soleri during many of the early years of the Cosanti Foundation. Doug is a member of the Cosanti Foundation Board of Directors.
[from left] Paolo Soleri, Kristine Soleri-Timm, the elder daughter of Paolo, Doug Lee, Colly Soleri Music Center Director Joel Timm, husband of Kristine and Julian Timm, grand-son of Paolo Soleri.[Photo & text: sa]
Long time resident and superb grill chef Thomas Crowe prepared Flank steak for the concert lunch.
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Once again chef Eleanor Gillis presented a delicious and beautifully prepared meal. The menu consisted of Roasted Red Pepper and Coconut Soup, Mixed Green Salad with Sweet Pecans, Blue Cheese, Pears and Arcosanti Peach Vinaigrette Dressing, Butternut Squash with Orange Cranberry Glaze, Broccoli Rabe with Roasted Garlic, Portobello Pizzas with Fresh Tomatoes and Goat Cheese, Flank Steak on Greens with Mango and Pepper Sauces and for dessert a Hazelnut Custard with rasped Chocolate Flakes.
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