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Arcology, Concept Art Landscape, Sci Fi Landscape, Degree Design, Sci Fi Environment, Tall Buildings, Skyscraper Architecture, Landscape Concept, Fantasy City

The Plastic converting tower by Ché Caines is a Masters degree design project for a conceptual proposal of a plastic to liquid fuel converting tower. Project description by the architect: With a growing consensus that plastic pollution is a prevalent issue, this project attempts to compound t...

“Arcology - The City In The Image Of Man” by Paolo Soleri (Complete Book) Arcology, Future City, Croquis, Garden City Movement, New Urbanism, City Planner, New Architecture, Vastu Shastra, Man Images

Visionary architect Paolo Soleri challenges us to think of cities as biological entities with his concept of the arcology—a massive, self-sustaining, urban “organism of a thousand minds” designed to exist in harmony with nature. He proposes that the purpose of life is aesthetogenesis: the universe progressively complexifying itself into compassionate, beautiful structures. Soleri showcases 30 potential arcologies through incredibly detailed diagrams, explaining how each integrates itself…

Arcology, Urban Planning, Experiential Architecture, Urban Agriculture, True Legend, Our Environment, University Of Arizona, Modern City, American Cities

To millions on the planet, iconic Arizona architect, artist, and philosopher Paolo Soleri -- who died at 93 in April -- was a futurist extraordinaire, an architectural crystal-ball gazer who predicted how cities of the next millennium would be, and a source of inspiration and hope for an ecologically balanced world in which nature and man could co-exist peacefully.

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