COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Digital Research Library
Record
Title:
Arcosanti
Title:
Crafts III, south and west elevations, general view, from southeast, from ravine
View:
Crafts III, south and west elevations, general view, from southeast, from ravine
Creators:
Paolo Soleri (American architect, born 1919)
Date:
begun 1970 (creation)
Style/Period:
Twentieth century
Location:
site: Cordes Junction, Arizona, United States
Location Note:
Near Cordes Junction, 70 miles north of Phoenix
GPS:
+34.342978-112.101647
Culture:
American
Materials:
concrete; wood
Work Types:
complexes; housing projects; inhabited places; ideal cities; settlements and landscapes; inhabited places
Description:
Supported by grants from the Graham and Guggenheim Foundations, Soleri began to explore massive urban applications of his philosophies, initially in the City on the Mesa project (1958-1967), an urban plan for two million inhabitants on a plot the size of Manhattan. Using huge translucent plastic models to depict his ideas, he designed numerous high-density cities that he called 'arcologies' from their combination of architecture and ecology. From the early 1970s he built his prototype 'arcology', Arcosanti, on 14 acres of an 860-acre parcel in the high desert of central Arizona. The project was intended eventually to house 5000 people in a 25-storey chain of futuristic buildings perched on the edge of a mesa. [The current population generally varies between 70 and 120, depending on the number of students and interns working at the time.] (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Classification:
Architecture and City Planning
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Image Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Vendor ID:
1A1-SP-A-C1
MDID Identifier:
29617
Archivision Set:
Archivision Addition Module Three
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