Search results : "tag:Paolo"
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BOOKS - LEAN LINEAR CITY
We are delighted to announce the Cosanti Press publication of LEAN LINEAR CITY: ARTERIAL ARCOLOGY. This compact book (7" x 7", 196 pages, fully illustrated in color) is the first full-length publication to present architect Paolo Soleri’s Lean Li... |
Jan 23, 2012 |
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CORDES JUNCTION INTERCHANGE
We return to our report from 1/13/12 about road construction at the Cordes Junction Interchange. [photo & text: Sue] Paolo Soleri returned to the site of one of his designs on the first bridge support. The bridge is being constructed ... |
Jan 16, 2012 |
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CORDES JUNCTION INTERCHANGE
We last reported on road construction at the Cordes Junction Interchange on 8/12, 8/15, 9/26, 10/10 and 10/24, 11/30 and a segment of Paolo Soleri's visit with ADOT, posted on November 4. 2011. During that visit Paolo Soleri viewed a full size mo... |
Jan 13, 2012 |
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BOOKS - CONVERSATION WITH PS
We are happy to announce a new book about Paolo Soleri, to be available at the beginning of April, published by PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS publishing Fine Books since 1981 CONVERSATIONS WITH PAOLO SOLERI by Lissa McCullough ISBN... |
Jan 4, 2012 |
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DOCUMENTARY - BEFORE FORM
In-house film maker Aimee Madsen has been at work for several years on footage for a documentary about Paolo Soleri. Now she hopes to raise funds to continue and complete this very important project. The documentary is filmed mostly at Cosanti... |
Dec 30, 2011 |
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FOUNDRY - POUR
The foundry crew is busy making lots of bells for the Christmas season. Despite freezing temperatures they are cheerfully working away. Crew members at the moment are Matt Cornwell, Colin Evans, Guy Flagg, as well as three foundry women, Cabiria Dou... |
Dec 7, 2011 |
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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK
Not unusual, this past week was a busy one all around. Here are just some of the highlights. Landscaping manager Ron Chandler and his crew worked on re-sanding and re-sealing all of the woodwork in the Colly Soleri Amphitheater. [photo & ... |
Dec 2, 2011 |
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BRONZE STUDIO - SPACE FRAMES
This continues our report from 11/16/2011 with detail photos of this 'Spaceframe'. Cliff Hersted chose a wooden clapper to ring the hollow brass tubes. [photo & text: Sue] More details of this fascinating new line of Cosanti Original... |
Nov 18, 2011 |
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BRONZE STUDIO - SPACE FRAMES
Cliff Hersted, sculptor and foundry staff member responsible for Special Assemblies at Arcosanti, is working on a new line of 'Spaceframes'. Here is one of the frames waiting for a bell ... ... and with a #118 bronze bell attached. [photo... |
Nov 16, 2011 |
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CORDES JUNCTION INTERCHANGE - SOLERI
This past Monday morning marked an interesting occasion for Paolo Soleri. [image & text: sue] ADOT, Arizona Department of Transportation, approached Paolo about three years ago with an idea that he might design the abutments of a new b... |
Nov 4, 2011 |
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ARCHIVES - NEW CAMERA
On July 6. 2011 we posted a plea for help to raise funds for the purchase of a much-needed video camcorder to document the ongoing progress of the world's first prototype arcology. Due to the breakdown of older equipment, we were unable to docum... |
Oct 14, 2011 |
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PAOLO SOLERI - RETIREMENT
[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 13, 2011] NEW LEADERSHIP AT COSANTI FOUNDATION Arcosanti, Arizona, ... |
Jul 15, 2011 |
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VISITORS - NEH SUSTAINABILITY
A group of 25 individuals from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona visited Arcosanti as part of a four week program titled "Rethinking the Land Ethic". The group, comprised of participants from across the country, spent an hour in the ... |
Jul 8, 2011 |
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PAOLO SOLERI - HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Paolo Soleri spent the day of his 92nd birthday at Arcosanti. He started the morning with a tour of the ceramics studio and foundry. Here he visits with a group of deans and professors from NAU in the Soleri Archives. [photo: Logan Bier & text:... |
Jun 21, 2011 |
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SCULPTURAL BELL ASSEMBLY
We continue our report from 2/25/11, about the new SPACE FRAME Special Assembly. [photo: Chihiro Saito & text: sue] This is the second piece in a series, that sculptor Brent Scott made for Cosanti. The original prototype was installed th... |
Feb 28, 2011 |
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SCULPTURAL BELL ASSEMBLY
We continue our report from 2/18/11, about the new SPACE FRAME Special Assembly, designed by Paolo Soleri and produced here at Arcosanti by sculptor Brent Scott. Here we see Brent in the final stages of finishing the sculpture. [photo: Chi... |
Feb 25, 2011 |
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SCULPTURAL BELL ASSEMBLY
This continues our report from 2/16/2011. Brent drills a hole into the small attachment for the new Soleri designed sculpture. [photo: Chihiro Saito & text: sue] Here we can see the small part in place. This is where bells will be attac... |
Feb 18, 2011 |
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SCULPTURAL BELL ASSEMBLY
Early last year Paolo Soleri designed a completely new type of Special Assembly [see our reports from March 15., April 14. and 16. 2010]. [photo: Chihiro Saito & text: sue] Sculptor Brent Scott is putting together the second version of th... |
Feb 16, 2011 |
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SCHOOL OF THOUGHT
Here is one more of Paolo Soleri's essays, perhaps a fitting subject for this day. ARCOSANTI: A GUN-FREE TOWN “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not b... |
Jan 17, 2011 |
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SCHOOL OF THOUGHT
The "Urban Effect" is a popular topic for School of Thought. Below is Chapter 12 from the book "Technology and Cosmogenesis", published 1986. [The photos were taken during School of Thought on December 16. 2010.] [photo: sue & text: Paolo Sole... |
Jan 14, 2011 |