This is an excerpt from the book The urban ideal, which includes excerpts of conversations with Soleri.

“So over time I developed certain skills: the dosages, for instance, of moisture in the soil so the cement doesn’t crack, and the timing of everything – finishing the form and casting it so that if rain comes, you don’t loose everything. I also learned that when you have mastered a method or a technique for doing something, it gives you lots of freedom, so you have got to try to be disciplined […]”

(p. 33)