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Arcosanti
An urban laboratory
Category Outsider Architecture
Using a concept he calls arcology, architect Paulo Soleri began construction on Arcosanti in 1970. This experimental city was constructed in order to demonstrate how urban conditions could be improved while minimizing the destructive impact on the earth. A lack of funding has somewhat crippled the town-site, originally intended to house over 5000 people. The current population varies between 50-150 persons, based on the number of students and volunteers on the site.
The layout of the buildings is intricate and organic, rather than a typical city grid. The current structures include a five-story visitors' center/cafe/gift shop, a bronze-casting apse, a ceramics apse, an outdoor amphitheater, a community swimming pool, an office complex, as well as a ring of apartment residences and storefronts. Arcosanti also maintains greenhouses, gardens, and agricultural fields.
Construction continues as students from around the world visit in order to attend workshops and classes. Funding is aided by the sale of artistic bells, crafted onsite, and the 50,000 tourists that visit each year.
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- Hours General tours of Arcosanti are offered seven days a week, starting every hour* between 10am and 4 pm. (*No tour available at 12pm.)
- Website Arcosanti
- Address located 65 miles north of Phoenix, just off I-17, exit 262, Cordes Junction, United States
- Cost $10 Suggested Donation
For further direction, contact Arcosanti tel: (928) 632-7135 email: info@arcosanti.org
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Anonymous
June 18, 2009
Arcosanti is definitely one of the stranger places I have been. Strikes me as somewhere where quirky is mistaken for genius. -
So glad this page made it! I created it just before signing up, and had a hard time with error messages and the like. It's good to see that people have already edited and added info!
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