The world has lost a great minds, Paolo Soleri has died at the age of 93, sixty-four years to the date that Frank Lloyd Wright died. He was an architect, builder, artist, writer, theorist from Turin, Italy. The Vision of Paolo Soleri
He established Arcosanti and the educational Cosanti Foundation, a community planned for 5000 people. Arcosanti has been in construction since 1970. Located near Cordes Junction, about 110 km north of Phoenix, Arizona. The project intends to provide a model demonstrating Soleri's concept of "Arcology", architecture coherent with ecology.
Soleri continued questioning and creating until his death. The theme of his last project, a series of collages entitled “Then and Now”, juxtaposed his own signature forms with illustrations of life from antiquity. In this project Soleri attempted to capture the critical notion that we are constantly building on the past.