In an earlier post, I showed a clip of the sample that featured Frank Lloyd Wright and his apprentice Paolo Soleri. Here’s a quote from Phoenix-based architect Will Bruder, who did an apprenticeship with Soleri in 1967.
I learned about this genius artist/architect Paolo Soleri, and how he was crafting these unbelievable structures and forms with virtually no money, and nothing became everything. The ordinary became the extraordinary, and that was really important to me.
Phoenix Home and Garden, March 2008
It is all too easy to look at the drawings and models of Arcosanti and to then look at what has been built and write off this “urban laboratory” as a pipe dream. But I prefer to look at what has been built, and with so little resources and by people–residents and workshoppers–who come to Arcosanti with a desire to contribute to something other than their own wealth or pleasure. If you go to Arcosanti, don’t walk around thinking how little has been done, look at how much has been done with so little.
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