{"id":13139,"date":"2020-11-03T06:53:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T13:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=13139"},"modified":"2021-08-23T03:56:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T10:56:05","slug":"arcosanti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=13139","title":{"rendered":"Arcosanti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ten years<\/strong> have I been following Hipstercrite<\/a> through various social media platforms, only knowing of her only through the internet. A strange connection has formed though, and when I saw that she and her boyfriend were traveling to Arizona, I got excited to see where they would end up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Little did I know<\/strong> that the place they introduced me to was one that I most likely have passed by at least a thousand times over the years of traveling along this interstate highway, yet I had no idea that it existed. The arcology vision that is Arcosanti<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1970<\/strong>, the year of my birth, Italian architect Soleri had a vision of creating a place that would be a deliberate critique of the consumerism that he saw was taking over the world. He wanted to build a place that would balance the world with the environment, something that would embody a radically different perspective and aesthetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I hobble on over from my rehabilitation weekend at Grape Vine cabin<\/a> to check this area out. Due to Covid the place was pretty empty, giving myself free range to wander around this unique installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wonderful works of art are on display (and for sale), but if you go just a bit deeper into Arcosanti you find the living quarters of the artist’s that call this place home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unassumingly awesome<\/strong> is this place, nestled just out of sight behind a trucker’s rest stop and the unrelenting expansiveness of the high Arizona desert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you see the exit sign<\/strong> for Arcosanti, do yourself a favor and take it. It certainly made the pain I was feeling dissipate, if only for a short time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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