A group of Cosanti staff visit for the Fall Equinox celebration. Welcome to >>from left>> Chris Ohlinger, Warren Steckel, Hannes Garrett, Wade Lanphier, Curtis Cherry, Abel Alday, Jackie Allison, Daniel Prioste, Larry LoPresti and Tara Baptist. >>in front>> Gregor Knauer.
[Photo & text: sa]

The Fall Equinox was celebrated on September 22. with an all-department picnic at the Arcosanti Foundry.
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & text: sa]

>>left>> A painted line marks the sun shadow of the South Vault at the exact time of the Equinox at 12:22 pm. >>right>> This is the first celebration on the new extension deck of the foundry.
[Photos & text: sa]

>>left>> A view from the foundry roof. >>right>> Foundry crew Ben Powell and Tom Sargent flip lots of burgers and vegi burgers.
[left photo: Yuki Yanagimoto, right photo & text: sa]

Paolo Soleri speaks to acknowledge the work on the new extension and explains a movable system of garment architecture that will shade the structure. More on this event will be posted on 9/29.
[Photo & Text: sa]

Each workshop takes a field trip to visit architectural sites in and around Phoenix. Some time is spent at Cosanti on various projects. The group picked and pitted olives.
[Photo: Kelli Huth & text: sa]

Old kiln bricks were sorted and stacked.
[Photo: Kelli Huth & text: sa]

Long time staff member Roger Tomalty taught a silt-cast workshop.
[Photo: Kelli Huth & text: sa]

The workshop group replanted a tree with Paolo Soleri's help.
[Photo: Kelli Huth & text: sa]

Arcosanti Agriculture department is busy with harvest.
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & text: sa]

Delicious tomatos, squash.
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & text: sa]

Green bell peppers and eggplant.
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & text: sa]

Arcosanti garden products are available at Farmers Market in Prescott and Camp Verde, also at a weekly Farmers Market in the Arcosanti Cafe.
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & text: sa]

Welcome to a group of students from the Osaka College of Architecture. [upper row from left]: Professor Yasunobu Tanigawa, Ayumi Yamane, Toshihito Horiuchi, YasuyukiYamanaka, Yusuke Kataoka, Yuki Ochiai, Jun Matsuura, Yusuke Shibano, Shinji Kido, Yuichiro Nagai, Ryota Nakamura and Professor Ken Kobayashi. [front row from left]: Kuniko Yoshida, Mami Shitozawa, Kana Kurimunde, Tsubasa Kodama, Yuho Akaeda, Takeshi Matsumoto, Yuta Miyoshi, Shingo Hanayama and Takuya Nakahigashi.
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & text: sa]

The students are here for an intensive week of introduction to Arcology, Paolo Soleri and the Arcosanti Project. They tour the various departments and have a busy schedule of slideshows and lectures. The students visit Cosanti and Taliesin West. And they work hard on a landscaping project, removing border rocks from a visitors path, weeding and sprucing up areas behind the East Crescent and the visitors parking lot.
[Photo & text: sa]

A busy and fun week for students and instructors.
[Photo & Text: sa]

Part of the week is a visit to the Grand Canyon. Classes of Architecture and Engineering students from Osaka College come for 7 - 10 day workshops to Arcosanti each spring and fall. The workshops are taught in japanese language by Arcosanti staff.
[Photo: Kana Kurimune & Text: sa]

Arcosanti residents, staff, volunteers and workshoppers on September 9. 2004.

[top row from left]: workshoppers Therese Kristiansson and Paolo Meccaci, landscaping coordinator Ron Chandler, foundry manager Jim Huth, foundry staff Kip Hersted [also AZ Tourism coordinator] and Gabriel Hendrix, construction and utilities manager Scott Riley, workshopper Chihiro Adachi, almost hidden - bakery coordinator Gin Harris, construction crew leader Brendan Scott, planning coordinator Dan Kelliher, agriculture staff and camp coordinator Sean Smith, workshopper Bruno Larios, volunteer Craig Moore, workshopper Erika Peres, foundry staff Stephen Kelly, workshoppers Megan Willis and Alicia Rossberg.

[middle row from left]: foundry staff Porter Smith, landscaping staff Josh Krimmel, workshoppers Yuta Senga and Satoru Kitada, construction volunteer Mika Kawai, workshopper Sofia Digerstedt, agriculture volunteer SaraBeth Kurzhals, archive staff Yuki Yanagimoto and maintenance staff Mark Baris.

[lower middle row from left]: workshop coordinator Kelli Huth, Cosanti foundry staff Dave Koppe, Cosanti foundry manager Hannes Garrett, ceramics staff Nadia Begin, maintenance member Mark Whigham, workshopper Helga Roessler, agriculture volunteer and bakery staff Camilla Jolda, book initiative coordinator Jewel Blackfeather, foundry staff Monica Ramirez, agriculture manager Brad Crutchfield, receptionist Shirlee Wheeler, public relations Charlie Provine and ceramic tile staff Linda Fournier.

[lower row from left]: ceramics staff Bernadette O'Neill [in purple shirt], construction and archive volunteer Jacob Schwartz [with sunglasses], sitting infront are workshopper Isaac Punzalan and italian project coordinator Matteo Di Michele, also project directors Tomiaki Tamura and Mary Hoadley, and planning intern Dennis Gerrigk.
[Photo & Text: sa]

The 23rd Annual Colly Concert presented Xtet. Featured were John Steinmetz, bassoon; Vicky Ray, piano; David Johnson, percussion; Mark Menzies, violin, and Roger Lebow, cello.
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & text: sa]

A volunteer crew helps to prepare another delicious meal. The cafe dining room and balconies are dressed for the festivity.
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & text: sa]

Chef Eleanor Gillis menu: Roasted Red Pepper & Coconut Soup, Greens with Pears, Pecans & Blue Cheese Salad, Green Beans with Sesame Sauce, Roasted Red Potatoes with Garlic & Rosemary, Grilled Tuna with Mango Salsa, Zucchini & Tomato Gratin, Lemon Curd with Fresh Raspberries.
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & text: sa]

Paolo Soleri enjoys the pre-concert dinner with some of the guests.
[Photo & text: sa]

The pieces performed were Responsorio - 1988 by Mario Lavista, Stille Musik - 1979 by Alfred Schnittke, Dark Wing - 2003 by David Johnson, Boviol - 2003 by Mark Mensies, and War Scrap - composed 2000 by John Steinmetz.
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & text: sa]

The Foundry at Arcosanti is located on a steep hill. A large group activity is in progress.
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & text: sa]

Pallets of bronze ingots are delivered to the bottom of the hill. After every bronze delivery people from all the different departments get together to chain the 15 pound ingots, from hand to hand, up the hill.
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & text: sa]

For a small crew this would be an ordeal, but many hands make this a 10 minute light-hearted work-out.
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & text: sa]

Present bronze bell production at Arcosanti requires about 5000 pounds of bronze every 6 - 8 weeks.
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & text: sa]

Paolo Soleri's TUBULAR BRIDGE has been selected for an exhibition in Genoa, Italy. The exhibition of art and architecture, ARTI & ARCHITETTURA 1900 - 2000, will open at the Palazzo Ducale on October 2. 2004 until February 13. 2005. The theme of the exhibition is to gather and document the lines that were crossed by artists, directors, designers, writers, photographers in the area of architecture and by architects in the visual arts, disciplines united by the project of a complete aesthetic transformation of reality.

The Tubular Bridge model was cast in bronze and aluminum at the Cosanti foundry in 1976.
[Photo: Ivan Pintar & text: sa]

Tubular Bridge drawing, in charcoal and pencil, by Paolo Soleri, 1959. This drawing is part of the collection of Soleri's work stored at the Soleri Archives at Arcosanti.
[Photo: Ivan Pintar & text: sa]

Welcome to the August 29. 2004 Workshop: [top from left] Satoru Kitada, Isaac Melo, Isaac Punzalan, Tatiana Sekulich, Paolo Meccaci and Therese Kristiansson. [middle from left] Yuta Senga, Angela Boyce, Chihiro Adachi, Erika Peres, Dia Dima Degamo Ates, Alicia Rossberg and Helga Roessler. [in front from left] Sofia Digerstedt and Megan Willis.
[Photo: Yuki Yanagimoto & Text: sa]