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Paolo Soleri

1919 - 2013

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Paolo Soleri (21 June 1919 – 9 April 2013) was an American architect and urban planner. He established the educational Cosanti Foundation and Arcosanti. Soleri was a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006. He coined the concept of 'arcology' – a synthesis of architecture and ecology as the philosophy of democratic society. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paolo Soleri is the 408th most popular architect (down from 385th in 2019), the 3,543rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,410th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Italian Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Paolo Soleri ranks 408 out of 518Before him are Daniel Marot, John Soane, Juan Gómez de Mora, Denise Scott Brown, Victor Louis, and Martin Wagner. After him are Wilhelm Kreis, Aurelio Galfetti, Léon Krier, Ragnar Östberg, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, and Jan Wils.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Paolo Soleri ranks 237Before him are Ladislav Mňačko, Olena Apanovych, Helen Walton, Maurice Boitel, Roberto Bonomi, and Laurence J. Peter. After him are Patricia Medina, Zuleykha Seyidmammadova, Tini Wagner, Milan Horvat, Hau Pei-tsun, and Antonio Pietrangeli. Among people deceased in 2013, Paolo Soleri ranks 304Before him are Ole Ernst, Jerry Buss, Hakon Barfod, Giuseppe Casari, Jan Zwartkruis, and Virginia E. Johnson. After him are Dave Charlton, Vivi Bach, David Frost, C. Gordon Fullerton, Princess Margarita of Baden, and Henri Alleg.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Paolo Soleri ranks 3,544 out of 5,161Before him are Gioacchino Guaragna (1908), Gaius Marcius Rutilus (-350), Paolo Monti (1908), Frederick, Margrave of Tuscany (1040), Titus Didius (-200), and Carlo Annovazzi (1925). After him are Angelo Damiano (1938), Angelo Maria Querini (1680), Nicola Saggio (1650), Riccardo Montolivo (1985), Luciano Federici (1938), and Emilio Caprile (1928).

Among ARCHITECTS In Italy

Among architects born in Italy, Paolo Soleri ranks 60Before him are Vannoccio Biringuccio (1480), Benedetto Antelami (1150), Antonio Rinaldi (1709), Francesco Laparelli (1521), Giuseppe Piermarini (1734), and Mario Bellini (1935). After him are Alessandro Antonelli (1798), Massimiliano Fuksas (1944), Franco Albini (1905), Paolo Portoghesi (1931), and Luigi Negri (1956).