Soleri: Architecture as Human Ecology
by Antonietta Iolanda Lima
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Author: Antonietta Iolanda LimaEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-07-14
ISBN: 1580931030
Number of pages: 408
Publisher: Monacelli
Book Reviews of Soleri: Architecture as Human Ecology
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Summary: 3 Stars
I really wanted to like this book more than I did, because Soleri's spaced out "arcologies" have always appealed to me with their somewhat plastic shapes - a product of their concrete construction methods - and somewhat appropriate appearance in certain settings - such as the Arizona desert. The book's many drawings and photos are welcome documentation of Soleri's life works and mostly unrealized dreams...
Alas, what rubbed me the wrong way was the whole text. Soleri, or at least the author of this retrospective, seems to have indulged in an excessive amount of self-consciously "profound", yet terribly vapid, even sophomoric theorizing, intellectualizing and/or rationalizing every aspect of the designs... It becomes, after a hundred pages or so, quite tedious.
This text seems a virtual caricature of academic BS and group-think, as often encountered in faculty lounges these days as in undergraduate dorms. It comes complete with largely irrelevant but obligatory digs at materialistic "American culture", the old "Star Wars" ABM defense scheme, etc. But what is sadly lacking is much coherent "form follows function" argument, so essential to truly ecological or organic design; instead, one gets the feeling that rationalization followed whim, with precious little regard for function whatsoever.
But hey, dude, maybe it's just me. No doubt the profundity here would have been more apparent had I recently scored some good hash...
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