By Kristena Hansen | Phoenix Business Journal
World-renowned Arizona artist, architect and philosopher Paolo Soleri — the mastermind behind Arcosanti, an experimental urban laboratory in northern Arizona — died Tuesday morning.
Arcosanti representatives confirmed the news in a statement:
“Today the world has lost one of its great minds. Paolo Soleri, architect, builder, artist, writer, theorist, husband, father, born on Summer Solstice, June 21, 1919, has died at age 93.”
Paolo Soleri spent a lifetime investigating how architecture, specifically the architecture of the city, could support the countless possibilities of human aspiration. The urban project he founded, Arcosanti, 65 miles north of Phoenix, was described by Newsweek magazine as “… the most important urban experiment undertaken in our lifetimes.”
