Paolo Soleri. Ideas and Work

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Wide ranging exploration of the ideas of architect Paolo Soleri. With Paolo Soleri, architect, philosopher; Stewart Udall (former Secretary of Interior and head of an environmental consulting firm); Kenneth Gibson, Mayor of Newark, N.J.; Alvin Toffler, author (Future Shock, etc.); scientist/future-thinker Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey, etc.); Moshe Safdie, architect (Habitat); Harold Francis and Tony Pearce (architecture students); Prof. John Gallahue (Columbia Univ., New York City.) An illustrated series of interviews about Paolo Soleri's ideas. Themes: architecture, the future of urban centers, the Earth's ability to sustain itself under the increasing load of human population, the interaction of art and utility, the future of ideas we take for granted, (such as progress and technology), and the changing nature of man himself.