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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Cordes Junction, Arizona, United Statesen_US
dc.coverage.temporalbegun 1970 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorSoleri, Paoloen_US
dc.date1970en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-19T20:37:31Z
dc.date.available2013-02-19T20:37:31Z
dc.date.issued1970en_US
dc.identifier192180en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1351en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/99465
dc.descriptionClose view of Colly Soleri Music Center; Supported by grants from the Graham and Guggenheim Foundations, Soleri began to explore massive urban applications of his philosophies, initially in the City on the Mesa project (1958-1967), an urban plan for two million inhabitants on a plot the size of Manhattan. Using huge translucent plastic models to depict his ideas, he designed numerous high-density cities that he called 'arcologies' from their combination of architecture and ecology. From the early 1970s he built his prototype 'arcology', Arcosanti, on 14 acres of an 860-acre parcel in the high desert of central Arizona. The project was intended eventually to house 5000 people in a 25-storey chain of futuristic buildings perched on the edge of a mesa. [The current population generally varies between 70 and 120, depending on the number of students and interns working at the time.] Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/12/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumconcrete; wooden_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectcityscapesen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary (1960 to present)en_US
dc.subjectdomestic lifeen_US
dc.subjectgenreen_US
dc.subjectengineering and industryen_US
dc.subjectmanufacturingen_US
dc.subjectCity planningen_US
dc.subjectHousingen_US
dc.subjectideal citiesen_US
dc.subjectdwellingen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.titleArcosantien_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-SP-A-A4en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypeinhabited placeen_US
vra.worktypeideal cityen_US
vra.worktypehousing projecten_US
dc.contributor.displayPaolo Soleri (American architect, born 1919)en_US


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