Paolo Soleri 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 died at home of natural causes on 9 April 2013 at the age of 93.Soleri authored six books, including The Omega Seed, Arcology - City In the Image of Man, and numerous essays and monographs. Continue reading... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Cosanti is where the famous Soleri Windbells are made and sold. Paolo Soleri was born in 1919 in Turin, Italy, where he earned his architectural degree. Soleri first came to the United States in 1947 to apprentice with Frank Lloyd Wright. Living and working in Arizona since 1956, Soleri established the Cosanti Foundation and his world famous line of bronze and ceramic wind-bells.
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Video footage and editing: Larry LoPresti
Music composed by: Grant LoPresti
Hark! Hear the Bells!
This is my final project for my JMC 345: Videography class at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University taught by Rob McJannet of CBS 5 in Phoenix. For this project, I went up to the Cosanti Originals Bell Studio in Paradise Valley, AZ and saw the entire process of the bells being made!
City of Superior vs Resolution Copper Mine & Paolo Soleri
A look at legendary architect Paolo Soleri and the legacy of his work. Town official talk about their opposition to The Resolution Copper Mine proposed in the town of Superior.
Science in a Resource Based Society
The images and videos of Arcosanti, Biosphere 2, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado were taken over several years of research and travel in the United States.
The rest of the images and video were taken from the Wikimedia Commons, NASA/JPL, Vimeo Creative Commons, and Google Images using the reuse license filter. Most have been modified from their original versions when allowed by their attribution license. Original drawings of arcological structures taken from City in the Image of Man by Paolo Soleri. Skyscraper arcology renderings can be found here:
An attribution list for each unique visual piece will be compiled here.
A discussion about adding toll-roads to Arizona. A look at the new immigration reform bill introduced in the senate. Magana talks about why she is in favor of the land swap in Superior in order to open a new copper mine.