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Soleritown.
Soleritown.
Soleritown.
Soleritown.
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Soleritown.:

Visions of a concrete utopia

From 26 June to 17 October 2021

D'Albertis Castle

D'Albertis Castle

Corso Dogali, 18, Genoa

Closed today: open tomorrow at 10:00

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Soleritown is the result of a research carried out in 2006 by photographers Emanuele Piccardo and Filippo Romano to investigate, through photography, the American works of the Turin architect Paolo Soleri (Turin 1919-Paradise Valley 2013). Soleri leaves Italy in 1946 to participate, in the Arizona desert at Taliesin West, in the Frank Lloyd Wright Fellowship, the school of the master of organic architecture. After the experience at Wright's court, Soleri embarks on an independent path that leads him to theorize Arcology, that is the union of architecture and ecology, whose formalization takes place with the construction of Cosanti and Arcosanti. Through the journey, the photographers tell the utopia realized by Soleri in building first Cosanti, in the suburbs of Phoenix, and then the open community of Arcosanti in Yavapai County, a new foundation city alternative to the metropolis in close contact with wild nature. Soleri's architectural research, immediately after Taliesin West, is manifested in 1955 with the experimentation of the village of Cosanti (Cosa-Anti), where he uses dome shapes for houses and common spaces, entirely made of exposed reinforced concrete. An attitude that is confirmed and expanded in his idea of the ideal city: Arcosanti. The exhibition, which unfolds in the rooms for temporary exhibitions of the museum, includes 50 photographs of the American works of architect Paolo Soleri carried out in the Arizona desert and portrayed by Piccardo and Romano, together with the projection of drawings and photographs of the construction sites of the architectures. In the permanent exhibition dedicated to the indigenous Hopi population of Arizona, 4 photographic works by Piccardo and Romano will be set up, which will interact with elements of native culture. Furthermore, in the same space, a video interview with Paolo Soleri will be projected.
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Corso Dogali, 18, Genoa, Italy

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tuesday 10:00 - 17:00
wednesday 10:00 - 19:00
thursday 10:00 - 17:00
friday 10:00 - 17:00
saturday 10:00 - 18:00
sunday 10:00 - 18:00

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