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Major Works by Paolo Soleri

Major Works by Paolo Soleri Soleri, Paolo. Arcology, the City in the Image of Man. Engineering Societies Library Collection (Library of Congress). Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1969. Soleri, Paolo. Arcosanti: An Urban Laboratory? San Diego, Calif: Avant Books, 1984. Soleri, Paolo. The Bridge between Matter & Spirit Is…

Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter

4 4 1869 By Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint To the modern traveler visiting New Mexico "Santa Fe style" conjures many images but early in the 20th Century, it signified a new American expression of urban architecture and design. Mary Colter was at the forefront of the mission…

Buildings Designed by John Gaw Meem, 1925-1959

1894 by David Kammer Nowhere in the United States is a regional architecture more evident than in New Mexico and sections of surrounding states where elements of prehistoric, Spanish colonial and Territorial building practices continue to find expression in many contemporary residences as well as public, civic and institutional,…

Pardoning Breadwinners, Constructing Masculinities

This talk examines the gendered rhetorical strategies that Territorial Penitentiary inmates deployed in order to claim entitlement to Territorial Governor George Curry's Holiday Pardons between 1907 and 1910.  How did these men-along with destitute parents, ill wives, and "womanly" children-construct and perform Territorial masculinities by evoking claims of industriousness,…