Arcosanti

I first visited Arcosanti in February 2020 and it felt like love at first sight. I’m a fairly timid person, but within hours of being there I was talking to people and remembering people’s names. I still remember a lot of them. There was Pete who I ran into as I was trying to avoid being caught taking pictures outside

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Arcology Apparel is co-founded by Jessica and Rob Jameson, who have lived at Arcosanti for over 8 years combined! Jessica is a portrait photographer who captures inspiration from life in an Arcology and the high desert landscape that surrounds it. Rob is a co-founder of the Arcosanti Cooperative and Deep Play. This family-run start-up values the Earth that the next

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Deep Play is an exciting new venture at Arcosanti for doing 360 degree immersive experiences! Rob Jameson is the founder and an Arcosanti resident of 6+ years, who manages technology systems (including intelligent light and sound) at Arcosanti. He’s overseen the sound and light for many innovative acts playing Arcosanti’s various performance spaces. A few years ago, Jameson began a

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Lexicon Light Production Services LLC has had quite the exciting launch despite the realities of starting an Event Production company at the beginning of a global pandemic. The formation of Lexicon Light LLC as a pilot entrepreneurial endeavor within the Arcosanti Micro-business program has provided Adam Taylor, the now small-business owner, an opportunity to put his skill sets to best

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Arco Agritecture is the microbusiness I’ve decided to begin under the new operating system emerging at Arcosanti. Motivated by Soleri’s “City in the Image of Man” and an article warning of the spreading of deserts into land around man’s habitat (desertification), I came to Arcosanti to do the workshop with the intention of staying here a year. Since that initial

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“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” That was the French mathematician and Catholic theologian Blaise Pascal writing in the mid-1600’s. Now, some 350 years later, many of the 8 billion of us humans alive on the planet today get to see if he was correct. Just looking out at the sky,

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ARCOSANTI AND THE WORLD Housing Policy and Us By Jeff Stein News this week from the NEW YORK TIMES. Their Sunday editorial, “Americans need More Neighbors” is a clear way of restating Arcosanti’s central theme, something we’ve been trying to describe by example in the Arizona desert for two generations. That is, there are all sorts of reasons – from

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“The word itself, automobile… it is a total misnomer, you know, “ said Paolo Soleri. Humans are truly auto-mobile, we can go anywhere, and we can pretty much go there under our own power. But cars can only move around on expensive, specially prepared surfaces – roads – and even then they need a human to drive them, to start and

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In a recent ARCHITECTURE magazine, Aaron Betsky described a series of magnificent new performing arts centers in Europe and in the US, each one built out on the edge of a metropolis. Their location means, of course, that these things pull civic life right out of the city, and also, they are not for poor people, i.e. not for anyone

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To honor the legacy of Corolyn Woods Soleri, Paolo Soleri’s late wife, the 34th annual Colly Concert at Arcosanti this year provided an extraordinary evening of choral music by the composer Morten Lauridsen. An audience of 250 filled the East Crescent Amphitheatre to hear combined choirs of 240 voices performing an integrated program of music, poetry, dance, projected imagery, devised

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