Touring Arcosanti
One of the places on my ‘bucket list’ was Arcosanti. My brother and his wife came for a visit and we were able to tour Arcosanti. In a previous post, I shared my visit to Cosanti in Phoenix. The architect, Paoli Soleri developed an architectural concept for cities and both Arcosanti and Cosanti were the beginning of his experiment. Concept - Arcology When I was in college in the early 1970’s, I studied housing and interior design. Soleri’s concept of a city without cars where people lived, worked and played near each other was the opposite of Frank Lloyd Wright’s concept where everyone had an acre of land and a car. I was very excited and curious to see how the Soleri experiment was developing. Entrance Arcosanti is very slow growing city in an urban laboratory. There are 60 to 100 people living together, working in a bronze foundry and a ceramic clay foundry. The development is mostly financed through the sal...