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Paolo Soleri Samuel Mockbee After the Fall
Paolo Soleri
As suburban America continues to span outward, writer Ira Murfin says the average citizen "spends about two hours a day in the car commuting between all these different points in our lives [without] much sense of connection or flow." Architect Paolo Soleri has a way of solving this problem with a simple geometric shape: the apse.

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Samuel Mockbee
Samuel Mockbee's students make houses out of license plates, cardboard bales, used tires, road signs, and car windshields -- and give them away. You might wonder who would want a house made of trash ... until you see these houses!

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After the Fall
To architecture critic Paul Goldberger, the essential question concerning the rebuilding of downtown Manhattan is "How do you go up into the sky again, build something tall that will be a symbol, but still respond to the realities of our time?" Join EGG as architects discuss the future of the skyscraper.

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