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Paolo Soleri

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Paolo Soleri (21 June 1919 – 9 April 2013) was an Italian architect. He established the educational Cosanti Foundation and Arcosanti. Soleri was a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006. He coined the concept of 'arcology' – a synthesis of architecture and ecology as the philosophy of democratic society. [1]

Soleri was the conceptual originator of the field of Architectural Arcology, the nascent movement of Arcology (Science). His project of Arcosanti is one of the first demonstrations of Arcological principles in practice.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Soleri