Repositioning Paolo Soleri : the city is nature / Claire C. Carter ; with essays by Larry Busbea, Garth Johnson, and Jonathon Keats.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Claire C., author, curator.

Busbea, Larry, author.

Johnson, Garth, author.

Keats, Jonathon, author.

Huxtable, Ada Louise, author.

Rothman, Aaron, author.

Contributor:

Soleri, Paolo, 1919-2013, architect, interviewee.

Ylvisacker, Paul N., interviewer.

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soleri, Paolo, 1919-2013--Exhibitions.

Soleri, Paolo.

Soleri, Paolo, 1919-2013--Criticism and interpretation.

Soleri, Paolo, 1919-2013--Themes, motives.

Soleri, Paolo, 1919-2013--Interviews.

Soleri, Paolo, 1919-2013.

Architecture--Italy--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Architecture.

Architects.

City planning.

Architectural design.

Themes, motives.

Criticism and interpretation.

Italy.

History.

Architectural design--Italy--20th century--Exhibitions.

City planning--Italy--20th century--Exhibitions.

Architects--Italy--20th century--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Essays.

Illustrated works.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

235 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans, photographs, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 x 34 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Tempe, Arizona : Ben Franklin Press.

Other Title:

Paolo Soleri

Place of Publication:

Scottsdale, Arizona : Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, [2017]

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

"In October 2017, SMoCA will unveil an unprecedented retrospective of seminal American artist and architect Paolo Soleri (1919 - 2013). Over his sixty-year career, Soleri explored thousands of possibilities for the urban built environment in drawings, architectural models, sketchbooks, sculptures, prints and photographs. His pioneering idea "arcology," or the fusion of architecture and ecology, proved prescient in its ties to current issues about sustainable cities, suburban sprawl, climate change, renewable energy and water shortages.The City Is Nature spans the breadth of Soleri's ideas and practice, bringing together elements from his built and unbuilt residences, bridges, dams, cities and transportation systems. In addition to original drawings, models and sketchbooks, the exhibition surveys the artist's earliest ceramic and bronze artisan crafts, as well as fabric designs and silkscreens. This ground-breaking exhibition represents the largest collection of original works by Sol eri presented in North America since 1971. Large scroll drawings--some over 30 feet long--will be presented for the first time since their conservation in 2005.The exhibition also investigates Soleri's personal engagement with the art and architecture of his time; the widespread recognition of his work by museums, scholars and curators; his relationship with Frank Lloyd Wright; and his influence on the American counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. It will also be the first to contextualize the artisan craft program that continues to underwrite the expenses of maintaining Cosanti and Arcosanti--two experimental communities Soleri built in the Arizona desert. In celebration of the exhibition, SMoCA is publishing Repositioning Paolo Soleri: The City Is Nature a large-format, hardcover, illustrated catalog authored by Claire C. Carter with essays by Larry Busbea, Garth Johnson, and Jonathon Keats. It will be available October 13, 2017 at the exhibition's opening receptionby Sol --publisher's website, accessed 20200309.

Contents:

Foreword / Sara Cochran

Introduction / Claire C. Carter

Man Is Nature. The City Is Man. The City Is Nature / Claire C. Carter

Vessel as Architecture, Architecture as Vessel: Paolo Soleri and the Culture of Craft / Garth Johnson

Arcoconsciousness / Larry Busbea

Envisioning Cities / Jonathon Keats

Plates

The Prophet in the Desert / Ada Louise Huxtable

Interview between Paolo Soleri and Paul N. Ylvisacker

Cosanti and Arcosanti Today / Aaron Rothman

Catalogue of the Exhibition

Annotated Bibliography / Claire C. Carter

Acknowledgments / Claire C. Carter.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, October 14, 2017 through January 28, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-231).

"Repositioning Paolo Soleri: The City is Nature: " October 13, 2017-January 28, 2018, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States.

Contains:

Soleri, Paolo, 1919-2013. Works. Selections.

ISBN:

9780979893674

0979893674

OCLC:

1050147045