Soleri Dreams On
Words on dreams and the built environment by Paolo Soleri
Alessandra Paracchi
Arcosanti: café, photo Alessandra Paracchi
The immense complexity of the person represents a challenge for every aspect of hyper-complexity in the stupendous invention that is the city. That cities are capable of “expressing” and practicing their own form of civilisation is part of the wonder of Homo Sapiens (if you don’t believe it, just ask a coral reef).
Cosanti foundation: swimming pool in front of Soleri’s house, photo Alessandra Paracchi
The Space/Time duet is a slipshod business, that can only be redeemed if reformulated as Space/Transformation. The urban system is full of it, thanks to the combination of Miniaturisation-Complexity-Duration. Making the most of the minimum is the key to this operation.
Cosanti foundation, photo Alessandra Paracchi
The universe is on autopilot. The big question is whether this automaton, without intellect, that is without a purpose, can generate a will, and knowledge, then an awareness of self. And ethics and aesthetics.
Cosanti foundation, Soleri’s workspace – photo Alessandra Paracchi
All utopias are the fruit of segregated thought, which is consequently illusory: rainbows and mirages which owe their presence to the non-reducible distance from the onlooker.
