Section and Front Elevation, Arizona Nest (project)
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.This early residential project by the architect Paolo Soleri finds an uncanny quotation in Sottsass’s design of a concert stadium in his Planet as Festival series. A student of Frank Lloyd Wright, Soleri developed a practice he called "arcology" (architecture with ecology), which he applied in building Arcosanti, an experimental community for sustainable urban design and living in the Arizona desert. His countercultural ideas inspired many in the Italian Radical Design movement. The transparent domes in Sottsass’s drawings also recall the Perspex bubble roofs of George Nelson’s Experimental House, which Sottsass worked on during his tenure in Nelson’s office in 1956.
Artwork Details
- Title: Section and Front Elevation, Arizona Nest (project)
- Artist: Paolo Soleri (American (born Italy), Turin 1919–2013 Paradise Valley, Arizona)
- Date: 1948
- Medium: Watercolor and graphite on paper
- Dimensions: 14 1/2 × 23 in. (36.8 × 58.4 cm)
Framed: 17 3/4 × 27 in. (45.1 × 68.6 cm) - Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Barbara Pine Collection
- Rights and Reproduction: Cosanti Foundation - Ivan Pintar
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art