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Description: Odd story how I acquired this book! I was walking home from a gas station half a block from home, and as I make it to my front yard I see this book and box tossed in my yard. I pick it up as if to throw it away. but before I did, I read the front of the box and it said MIT press, so I peaked my interest! (It was already opened) So I looked into the book and this is what I could find. “ 1969. MIT Press. 24" by 14" . Spiral Bound. AN EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE TO RARE copy of the FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, in the PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BOX, and having an EXCELLENT PROVENANCE, being the copy of IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ, the Editor-in Chief of Trans-Action. The original Publisher's mailing box remains in Very Good or better condition with, of course, evidence of use. The work's original flexible binding is in Fine condition with a small push at the rear side's top edge near the spine, and the pages show only mild age toning. An Italian Architect who emigrated to America, Paolo Soleri was a lecturer at Arizona State University's College of Architecture and winner of a 2006 National Design Award. He also won an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Craftmanship (1963) and a Leone d'oro at the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2000). Soleri spent some 18 months in at Taliesen West in Scottsdale as a student under the American Architectural giant Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright's influence can be seen in Scoleri's designs. However, while Wright worked on a predominantly horizontal plane with communities could occupy large amounts of space, Soleri, coming from Europe where living conditions were much more compact, he envisioned cities on a vertical plane with multi-use buildings and easy walking access to stores, offices, and the like by foot rather than by car as in the more wide-open United States, in consequence of which he developed a strong and visionary focus on urban planning, and a concept he called "Arcology", a harmonious marriage of architecture and ecology, a marriage which could be achieved by building a city in a compact, three-dimensional style which was neither strictly horizontal nor strictly vertical and which had a minimal impact on the environment.“

Price: 400 USD

Location: Spokane, Washington

End Time: 2025-01-08T19:10:19.000Z

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