| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Cordes Junction, Arizona, United States | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | begun 1970 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Soleri, Paolo | en_US |
| dc.date | 1970 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-02-20T17:23:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-02-20T17:23:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1970 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 192200 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 1351 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/99485 | |
| dc.description | Foundry Apse, close view of apse from west, depicting stairs and decorative element at top of arch; 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.medium | concrete; wood | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architectural exteriors | en_US |
| dc.subject | cityscapes | en_US |
| dc.subject | contemporary (1960 to present) | en_US |
| dc.subject | domestic life | en_US |
| dc.subject | genre | en_US |
| dc.subject | engineering and industry | en_US |
| dc.subject | manufacturing | en_US |
| dc.subject | City planning | en_US |
| dc.subject | Housing | en_US |
| dc.subject | ideal cities | en_US |
| dc.subject | dwelling | en_US |
| dc.subject | Twentieth century | en_US |
| dc.title | Arcosanti | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A1-SP-A-E5 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | American | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | inhabited place | en_US |
| vra.worktype | ideal city | en_US |
| vra.worktype | housing project | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Paolo Soleri (American architect, born 1919) | en_US |
