Arcosanti

Asteromo, basically arcology-in-space conceived in the 60s by architect Paolo Soleri, who coincidentally started the desert techno-ashram Arcosanti, is an asteroid for a population of about 70,000 people.

Archive 2006-02-01 2006

Asteromo, basically arcology-in-space conceived in the 60s by architect Paolo Soleri, who coincidentally started the desert techno-ashram Arcosanti, is an asteroid for a population of about 70,000 people.

Asteromo 2006

Mustard colored, it fit into the desert, although it's tie rods steered me away from a Jackson Browne concert at Arcosanti.

Gale Walden: The Poetry of the American Car Gale Walden 2010

Mustard colored, it fit into the desert, although it's tie rods steered me away from a Jackson Browne concert at Arcosanti.

Gale Walden: The Poetry of the American Car Gale Walden 2010

Mustard colored, it fit into the desert, although it's tie rods steered me away from a Jackson Browne concert at Arcosanti.

Gale Walden: The Poetry of the American Car Gale Walden 2010

A recent article in the Salt Lake Tribune sheds some light on architect Paolo Soleri's futuristic eco-city experiment known as Arcosanti.

May 2008 2008

And, on the other hand, at least one resident of the Arcosanti, seemed to believe that politics should be about moving off the current path, about someone willing to break from history with a sense of innovation.

Ben Terris: The Politics Of Inspiration In The West 2008

Today, as oil prices rise again, and as gas tops $4.50 in some states, members of Arcosanti say there has been a renewed interest in the design, but even forty years after Soleri broke ground, the graying utopia is less than 10 percent of what the model promised.

Ben Terris: The Politics Of Inspiration In The West 2008

Whether or not Arcosanti is viable, many people feel they can learn from the place, and come out here either to live permanently or to work at the five-week summer program that specializes in activities from ceramics, to graphic design, to architecture (no more than 100 people live here at any given time).

Ben Terris: The Politics Of Inspiration In The West 2008

For the pilot, Mr. Brown traveled to Arcosanti, the utopian architectural roadside attraction in the Arizona desert, and interviewed Italian architect Paulo Soleri.

Aaron Brown's Summer Job 2008