a visit to the renegade urban architect
i almost forgot to mention it (sometimes it's hard to keep a weeks worth of blogging in your head). on the way out of town when we were in phoenix we piled into the brother's cobra (with luggage and not more than a spare cubic centimeter) and took a quick trip to cosanti - sort of the commercial arm of arcosanti. if you can call anything to do with soleri actually commercial. it's been about 10 years since i've been to arcosanti, which is pretty strange and wonderful if you like the idea of communes. it started out as the proto-genesis for a self-contained community. i don't know if that's still the goal. but they make some groovy art, and the wacky cast buildings are wonderful, and will take you back to the 70's if they're in your memory.
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That does indeed take me back. Back in the mid70s, I bought a big book on Arcosanti (I'd never heard of it before) and spent lots of time leafing through it and drooling.
But maybe we had that conversation before.
Maybe it was on Christmas Day 1994 in Sedona.
Posted by: meg | July 26, 2004 07:29 AM
>-((((P>
Posted by: fishy | July 27, 2004 08:13 AM
isn't it funny that a) it's been 10 years and b) it's only been 10 years. we might have talked about that. i don't recall. i do recall how strange my parents thought it was that i was going off to meet you. ahhhhhh the early years.
i'd think that arcosanti would be great for your creative side, and not enough juice for your brain. you don't have quite high enough of a hippy quotient to live on a commune. unless it involves a lot of time sitting under a tree reading something dense and having a bunch of other hyper-educated hippies to chat with. :)
maybe we should just start the home for wayward post-docs.
Posted by: rosebaby | July 27, 2004 08:59 AM