Arcology: The City in the Image of Man by Paolo Soleri

Arcology: The City in the Image of Man, Paolo Soleri. Published by The MIT Press, New York, October, 1973. First MIT Press Softcover Edition, (stated). Illustrated card covers. Oblong 15¾" x 9" tall., 121 double pp. Full page illustrations throughout in black and white. In very good condition: card covers have rubbing and light creasing; inked name to free endpaper, small closed tear to rear blank endpaper and otherwise pages are clean without markings or folds and binding remains firm.

"In the three-dimensional city, man defines a human ecology. In it he is a country dweller and metropolitan man in one. By it the inner and the outer are at 'skin' distance. He has made the city in his own image. Arcology: the city in the image of man."

First published in 1969 by the MIT Press, Arcology: The City In The Image of Man has become legendary among scholars, architects, artists, and librarians around the world. It established Paolo Soleri as one of the most innovative minds of our time. Paolo Soleri was born in Torino, Italy, in 1921. He moved to Arizona after WW II to study with Frank Lloyd Wright. He started his own Cosanti Foundation in the 1950s, and engaged into the monumental Arcosanti project, a prototype city in the northern Arizona desert. His vision, his writings, his worldwide recognition earned him the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2000 - the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for the Arts.
Isbn: 9780262690416