Soleri : architecture as evolutionary quest / Lissa McCullough -- Writings from Soleri's notebooks -- Autobiographical musings -- Orchid and forest -- Responsibility of the architectural profession -- The city as hyperorganism -- The urban effect -- The concept of arcology -- Self-creating reality -- The lean alternative -- Esthetogenesis -- The love project -- A conversation with Paolo Soleri / Lissa McCullough, interviewer -- Soleri's architecture in contemporary context / Marco Felici -- Soleri's lean alternative in developing countries / Youngsoo Kim -- Biographical overview : Paolo Soleri (b. 1919)