Esoteric Survey

Arcosanti  (1970- ) An Urban Laboratory Sunset Sunrise Cosanti  (1956-1974) See what's inside-- here . A super special assembly.  Barrel Vault at Cosanti (1968-71) Gates in front of the DeConcini house in Phoenix, Az by Paolo Soleri (1981) See more here . Paolo Soleri Bridge and Plaza (2010) More on the bridge  here . The great Paolo Soleri

I've been to Phoenix a bunch of times but had never been here.   This is Beadle Residence 6, or White Gates, by Al Beadle, 1958. This place is so good.  I'm totally in the Beadle fan club now.   Unfortunately, it's in bad shape.  It is supposedly being restored by the current owner, but it sure doesn't look like it. Read more on Modern Phoenix At one point there was a matching garage.  Period interior shots. Source: Mete The Beadles , by Peter J. Wolf Next door is another Beadle. He also did a Case Study Apartment Building / Traid Apartments for Arts & Architecture.  I'll visit there next time.     An Edward Killingsworth house from 1957 was listed for sale  so I went to check it out.  Apparently, Al Beadle used to live in the house. I can't find any vintage photos, or much information on it at all.  That's what I get  for  lagging on ordering the book ...

Visionary architect and artist  Paolo Soleri  has died at 93 Paolo Soleri at Taliesin West in 1948.   Frank  Lloyd Wright and Paolo Soleri both died on April 9th.  There has got to be something to that.  Photo: Lois D. Gottlieb, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives  (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York).  Via Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation The Arcosanti website has posted an in  memoriam .

Soleri: Mesa City to Arcosanti at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art 40 ft long Soleri design for Mesa City, 1959 The Mesa City plan is where Soleri began articulating his urban design principles of high density living  that is in harmony with nature. Soleri has a history of using rolls of butcher paper for his architectural drawings.   There was still a roll of it in his office when I was there last December . Paolo working on Mesa City at Cosanti Source: Soleri: Architecture as Human Ecology  Soleri's sketchbook That's quite a cover... It looks like he's had it for quite a while. Source: Life Magazine, 1966 1959 Aluminum apse model Now those are some land use designations This exhibition ends April 28.