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Residential Dam, project, Elevation
1969 · Red and blue pencil on black and white blue-print
Sheet: 24 5/8 x 36 3/8" (62.5 x 92.4 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Paolo Soleri
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26
Works in Collection
56
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Visionary Architecture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
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Built in USA: Post-War Architecture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953
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Paolo Soleri was an Italian-American architect and visionary whose experimental practice bridged sculpture, urban planning, and ecological design. Working from his Arizona studios, he developed innovative approaches to cast concrete forms and designed theoretical megastructures that integrated human habitation with natural systems. His utopian architectural philosophy emerged from apprenticeships in the American Southwest and a conviction that cities could be radically reimagined as three-dimensional, high-density organisms. Soleri's drawings, models, and built prototypes including Arcosanti remain singular documents of postwar architectural idealism.
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Museum of Modern Art
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