The Cosanti Foundation presents its annual Italian Night concert and dinner at Arcosanti on Saturday, July 10th, 2010.
This Arcosanti tradition celebrates the heritage of the founder, Paolo Soleri, who was born in Torino, Italy.
The celebration features a special meal served outdoors under the Arcosanti Vaults in the setting of Italian cypress and olive trees.
Paolo Soleri, who turned 91 this year, usually serves the pasta from special wheelbarrows, honoring the history of construction at Arcosanti.
[photo & text: sue]
Arcosanti is proud to welcome back virtuoso musician Nick Ariondo, who exploits the accordion's dynamic range to orchestral proportions for a musical evening of spellbound talent and international delights from Italy and beyond.
Ariondo enthralled the Italian Night audience in 2005 and returns this year to perform works by Piazzolla, Rossini, and Puccini, including Ariondo's Arcosanti-inspired compositions depicting the vast landscape and luminous sky, titled "Stella Notte" and "Lucenta Sera."

Dinner Menu
antipasto / appetizers
penne al pomodoro fresco / penne pasta with fresh tomato sauce
pollo arrosto / roasted chicken
funghi portobello ripieni / stuffed portobello mushrooms (vegetarian entrée)
fagiolini /green beans
inslata con condimento “alla Paolo” / salad with Paolo’s dressing
granita al limone con biscotto / lemon ice with cookie

Arrive at 5:00 p.m. for a complimentary tour of Arcosanti, followed by dinner at 6:00 p.m. with the performance at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $40 for the performance and dinner or $20 for the performance only ($10) students. Dinner reservations required. Call 928-632-7135 or see www.arcosanti.org for tickets and information.
[photo: Alfonso Elia & text: Cosanti Foundation]

Welcome back to Phoenix Country Day School. Their students have visited Arcosanti several times
[see our reports 10/26 and 10/28/2008, 10/14 and 10/16/2009].
A group of students from the schools summer program "Project Excellence", and their teachers, arrived on 7/5/10 for a 2-day visit.
A full agenda began with a tour of the site.
[photo & text: sue]
Highlights of the visit were the silt casting workshop, drum circles and story telling, and of course, shadow dancing on the mesa.
Students and their teachers from the Phoenix Country Day School had two days packed with fun, outdoor adventures and craft-workshops.
Thank you PCDS students and teachers for visiting Arcosanti. We hope to see you all again soon!

For any information on student group and other group visits to Arcosanti, please contact our Guest Services.
[photo & text: sue]

Welcome to the June 20, 2010 workshop participants!!

[back from left]:
Katja Schulz [two weeks], Todd Reibold, Kris Willoghby [two weeks], Andrew Murphy [three weeks] Zachary Feirer, Michael Borowski, Aaron Sherwyn, Fabio Brochetta,
[front from left]:
Kylee Cumby, Alexandra Dahlman, Scottie Belissemo, Chiara Cascella, Rebecca Valencia, Audry Williams
[photo & text: Anita Baker]

Congratulations to
the May 16. 2010 graduating workshop participants!!
[graduated on June 18. 2010]

[standing from left]:
Wilder Fichter, David Wilson, Joseph Rivera-Ramos, Craig Shirley, Patrick Thompson and Mark Kieser [workshop and planning internship].

[kneeling from left]:
Jiwon Lee, Jacob Zucker and Masato Kurachi.
[photo & text: Anita Baker]

[photo: Steve Morse, with red helmet, at the Arcosanti foundry in 1997]

Steve Morse did his workshop in 1991 and stayed on to work in the Arcosanti Bronze Foundry until 1999. Part of that time he was the manager of the foundry.

We regret to report that Steve passed away on June 2. 2010.


[photo: Brian Johns & text: sue]
[photo: Steve Morse at Arcosanti, Thanksgiving 1992]

There will be a Memorial Service on June 29. 2010, at 3pm, at the Veterans Cemetery on Overland Trail in Prescott, Arizona.

We send our heartfelt condolences to Steve's family and friends.


[photo: Karen Taylor & text: sue]
[photo: Steve Morse, November 1992]

Finding more photos.


[photo: Karen Taylor & text: sue]

Randy first came to Arcosanti for his workshop in June 1977. He later worked for some time with the construction crew on the beginning of the East Crescent. The left photo is of Randy in 1980.

Yesterday we received news from Randy’s wife Teri:

“My husband, Randall J. Cude, was an Arcosanti workshop participant and later a resident (around 1980-82, I believe). Arcosanti was a key element in his professional development as an architect, and an important time in his life."

Sadly, Randy passed away on April 6, 2010.

Since Arcosanti, he had become a registered architect in New York and spent many years as a partner at Voorsanger Architects. More recently, he completed law school and became a commercial real estate attorney at prominent New York City law firm, Proskauer Rose, specializing in construction-related matters.

Teri: The second photo is a pic of Randy (taken during our wedding ceremony on the 4th of July, 2007.)

We send our heart-felt condolences to Randy’s wife Teri. [tc@tcude.com].
[photo & text: Sue]

[photo: Rosalinda and Jadae Johnson]
During the past week-end the Arcosanti site came alive with the "joyful sounds" of blues, reggae and rock-n-roll.
This was the 12th year that Milt Cannon organized the JUNETEENTH event here at Arcosanti.
Saturday started with a fiery dedication by Rev. Michael Cannon and gospel songs by Rosalinda and Jadae Johnson.
[photo & text: sue]
Here are some of the HIGHLIGHTS.

The MILT CANNON QUARTET with Albert Sarko on piano, Wayne Jones on bass, excellent drummer Randy Carter, and event organizer Milt Cannon.
[photo & text: sue]
The CUNNINGHAM DUO graced this event for the fifth year with performances on Saturday and on Sunday.
[photo & text: sue]
Reggae band HENRY TURNER JR. & FLAVOR have been part of this festival from it's very beginning.
This years band members are Henry Turner Jr. on guitar and vocals, Kenneth Campbell on keyboard, Danny Odudua on drums, James Turner, guitar and RasWayne, vocals, and the awesome Ronnie Huston on drums.
[photo & text: sue]
As every past year, the limbo dance was the highlight for kids of all ages.
With this reggae band something mysterious happens to peoples feet.
[photo & text: sue]
AISHIA was replaced by the DENISE ALLEN BAND, with Denise Allen on vocals, Sylvan Iancao on Bass guitar, Zach Parker on drums, Ricky Henderson on lead guitar and guest Nachama Greenwald on harmonica.
[photo & text: sue]
Husain Abdul-Alim of Spiritwood has been part of this festival every year with his beautiful hand carved wooden masks and a great selection of hand made jewelry, hats, eclectic clothing, incense and more.
[photo & text: sue]
Totally 'awesome' barbecue by "GEORGE" and family.
[photo & text: sue]
The CUNNINGHAMS during Sunday's performance.
[photo & text: sue]
HENRY TURNER & FLAVOR played Saturday Night and Sunday Night in the Vaults. Awesome dance parties.

As in the past, this years JUNETEENTH combined good music, a very interesting art show, good food, lovely people and a mellow atmosphere.
[photo & text: sue]

A very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Paolo Soleri. 91 years young, here on a visit to the High Tunnel Greenhouse at Arcosanti.
[photo: Jon Goodbun & text: sa]
The photos were taken on June 17. by visiting scholar Jon Goodbun.
[photo: Jon Goodbun & text: sa]
With Paolo were his daughter Daniela with husband David Cleveland and granddaughter Xina.
[photo: Jon Goodbun & text: sa]

In preparations for the JUNETEENTH Festival, Tomiaki Tamura designed a new cover for the Colly Soleri Amphitheater.
[photo & text: sue]
Foundry staff member and awesome seamstress Cabiria sewed this large tarp together and strengthen the edges all around with seatbelt material.
[photo & text: sue]
Meanwhile the crew put in place a parachute in the East Crescent keystone, providing shade for vendors like Husain Abdul-Alim who for many of the past years has brought his collection of SPIRITWOOD masks and carvings to this event.
[photo: & text: sue]

[photo: sue]

[image: The CANONFIRE ENSEMBLE. Cannonfire musicians are Cal McCarthy, guitar, Randi Carter on drums, Ray Carter on the bass, Al Sarco, piano and event organizer Milt Cannon, saxophone]

The JUNETEENTH Music and Arts Festival here at Arcosanti will take place this coming week-end.
[photo & text: sa]
[image: One of the 2009 artists displays]

This annual event has been a musical highlight for many years and this year event organizer Milt Cannon has put together again a line-up of wonderful musicians.
[photo & text: sa]
[image: Reggea group Henry Turner & Flavour. Henry Turner Jr., guitar, Ronnie, drums, James Turner, bass and djembe, and Challa, keyboard]

Milt Cannon leads the Prescott Jazz Society and has conceived and organized JUNETEENTH here at Arcosanti for the past 12 years.
Over the years this has been a favourite event and we look forward to returning visits from many prior participants, musicians, artists and vendors.
[photo & text: sa]
[image: The Saturday night Reggea party in the Vaults]

This event offers two days of jam'n music with live bands, swimming, hiking, art and culture, dancing, fun and games, and wonderful food.

Celebration starts at
11 am on Saturday, June 19. and
11 am on Sunday, June 20. 2010.
[photo: Alfonso Elia & text: sa]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Cosanti Foundation Reacts to Demolition Plans for Paolo Soleri Amphitheater in Santa Fe

Architect Paolo Soleri hopes to find alternatives to demolition.

On June 8, 2010, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported that the Paolo Soleri Amphitheater at the Santa Fe Indian School “is scheduled for demolition.”

The theater was designed in 1965 by Italian architect Paolo Soleri, who is most noted for pioneering concepts in the fields of environmental architecture and alternative urban planning. Many alumni of the Santa Fe Indian School and local residents of Santa Fe are outraged at the idea of losing the theater, a well-loved venue for performing arts events and graduation ceremonies for the students.

Paolo Soleri said “I am willing to do anything to support the preservation of the theater.” Architect Doug Lee said about the demolition plans “It would be a great tragedy when we actually built the theater working with local Indian students.”

The Cosanti Foundation looks forward to supporting any effort to preserve, restore, and maintain the Paolo Soleri Amphitheater as a cultural and historic resource in Santa Fe and to work with a variety of organizations to both prevent demolition and to raise funds to help the theater continue to serve both the Santa Fe Indian School students and the Santa Fe community.

Soleri last visited the theater when he traveled to Santa Fe to participate in the 2009 Celebrate Sustainable Santa Fe Festival. Roger Tomalty, who has worked with Soleri for over 40 years, accompanied Soleri during the visit and “was surprised how enthralled Paolo was with the structure.” On his visit, Soleri said “I rediscovered the value of the theater.” Cosanti Foundation executive Tomiaki Tamura describes the structure: “The aesthetic vocabulary of the theater resonates with the environment and architecture of Santa Fe, then and now.”

In 1965 the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) approached Paolo Soleri to design an outdoor amphitheater at its campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Soleri’s design called for a dramatically upwardly-shaped, earth-cast concrete structure to cover the performance area. The theater has since been used for events ranging from internationally publicized rock concerts to IAIA graduation ceremonies to the annual Native Roots and Rhythms Festival.

From the book Soleri: Architecture as Human Ecology by Professor Iolanda Lima, Copyright 2003 by The Monacelli Press:
“In 1964 Lloyd Kiva New, president of the Institute of American Arts and a friend and admirer of Soleri, commissioned him to build a three hundred seat open-air theater that would both serve its traditional function and “frame the moon and sun. Soleri accepted the assignment… What he was after was not so much stage mobility as synergy among the participants. He achieved this by creating a stage and seating with no division, a place where actors and musicians could interact with spectators.”
“Soleri said of the project: ‘We were hoping actors would not just use the stage, but also the area above it, and that’s why we designed the bridge and other platforms. It was meant to be similar to the Elizabethan theater, with action taking place on different levels… The notion of using the local landscape, geology, and natural materials was an integral part of the process. We molded earth and arranged the arches, then we excavated trenches and poured concrete to form the walls, using a technique that captures the consistency and shape of the earth itself.”

Paolo Soleri recently said “Lloyd Kiva New was the mover that had the imagination and determination to have the outdoor theater at the Santa Fe Indian School. The construction began as the cooperation of the school’s students headed by Lloyd himself and me with the Cosanti Foundation of Scottsdale, Arizona.
Imagination was at the origin of the theater, imagination is essential now. This American culture is bent on demolition in all fields. It is a deleterious way of making history and forfeiting memories, the very memories cutting the landscape of history for country in search of culture and civility.”

Soleri’s primary work has been in city design and planning, rather than focusing on individual buildings. He is most known for the alternative planning concept arcology (architecture + ecology) as a method of reducing human impact on the environment while improving quality of life. Soleri often describes “the orchid vs. the forest,” comparing a single building as an architect’s beautiful “orchid” to a complex, interacting city as the “forest.” To Soleri, the amphitheater is an orchid he is proud of.
[photo: Colly Soleri & text: Erin Jeffries]

There have been many rumors recently that the PAOLO SOLERI AMPHITHEATER in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is scheduled to be demolished.

The theater is located on the campus of the Santa Fe Indian School and many of the beautiful old buildings on that campus have been destroyed in the last couple of years.

On June 7. 2010, these rumors were finally confirmed with an article by George Johnson, posted in The Santa Fe Review. The article was sent to us by Ryan S. Flahive, Archivist at the IAIA, College of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe. Thank you, Ryan!
[photo: Cosanti Foundation & text: Erin Jeffries, sa]
According to this article, the Superintendent of the Santa Fe Indian School, Everett Chavez, publicly announced, on New Mexico’s 94 Rock’s Morning radio show, that
the Paolo Soleri amphitheater will be destroyed as part of the school’s “aggressive educational agenda.”
The reasons stated were yearly maintenance costs of $95,000.00 to $99,000.00,
and a sum of $578,000.00 to bring the theater up to code, which would include compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
[photo: Cosanti Foundation & text: Erin Jeffries, sa]
From the earliest rumors to the actual announcement by Mr. Chaves and to date, there has been a terrific response against the destruction, from students and alumni of the Indian School as well as from the architectural and general community.
There have also been many many heartfelt testimonials from people that attended events at this venue over the years.

We at the Cosanti Foundation will do whatever we can to support the preservation and restoration of the theater as a cultural and historic resource.

Stay tuned for more information on how to help!

One of our interns put together a series of web-postings about the Paolo Soleri Amphitheater in St. Fe, see Today@Arcosanti from January 2. 2009 - January 12. 2009.
[photo: Cosanti Foundation & text: Erin Jeffries, sa]

The Italian edition of Professor Iolanda Lima’s new book on sustainable architecture is ready.
The book will be officially presented to the public at Milan's Triennale on June 18th 2010, with several professors from Milan Polytechnic and other universities.
[image: Professor Iolanda Lima & text: Matteo Di Michele]
The book was written in Honor of Paolo Soleri, published by Jaca Books.
It is about many architects work, (not just Paolo's), all of them contributed to this initiative to honor Paolo Soleri.
The book will include the whole SOLARE Quaderno no.9, and Young Soo Kim's latest 3-D Renderings of Lean Linear.
[image: Professor Iolanda Lima & text: Matteo Di Michele]
The book includes work from the following architects:
Maria Bottero, Politecnico di Milano
Maria Antonietta Crippa, Politecnico di Milano
Antonietta Iolanda Lima, Univerista di Palermo
Francesco Moschini, Politecnico di Bari
Giovanni Puglisi, IULM Milano
Gianni Scudo, Politecnico di Milano.
[image: Professor Iolanda Lima & text: Matteo Di Michele]

Congratulations to new parents Colleen Reckow and Andy Chao
and a very hearty welcome to baby Rowan Alexander Chao.
[photo & text: sue]
Rowan was born on June 1. 2010 at 7am. At birth he weighed 7 lbs 4 oz and was 19.75 inches long.

[photo & text: sue]

[image: Birdseye view of the Lean Linear City design]

We continue our report from 6/2/10 with updated renderings of the Lean Linear City.

The text consists of excerpts from "QUADERNO 9, SOLARE: LEAN "LINEAR CITY" written by Paolo Soleri, 2005.

"The variations available for the single module (200 meters in length) to “clone” itself are unlimited, given the ingenuity and the resolve of the planners, designers, and populations involved.
Three major points:
[1] Food and habitat are mandatory (necessities), a priority, and a universal imperative.
[2] A continent as populated as China at the edge of hyper-consumerism cannot afford to engulf its farmland in parkways, highways, roads, parking lots, garages, and dumpsites.
These are consequences of the unchecked metastasis of the city into suburbia and exurbia.
[3] A child separated from nature, as even the most opulent exurbia imposes, will be a flawed persona."
[3D Rendering: Young Soo Kim & text from WHAT IF? QUADERNO 9, SOLARE: LEAN LINEAR CITY]
[image: Birdseye view of the Lean Linear City design, space between the city ribbons]

"According to the preliminary data, each “module” of the city, measuring 200 meters in length, accommodates about 2,000 residents and the spaces for productive, commercial, institutional, cultural, recreational, and health activities.
Each module is able to harvest a percentage of its energy needs on the spot, in addition to the staple harvests such as fruits and vegetables.
In SOLARE, auxiliary to the family’s windowsill pot for herbs and tomatoes, are the greenhouse aprons on the southerly elevation and the terraced orchards on the northerly elevation.
The most promising effect of the lean urban ribbon is a network of logistically distributed habitats capable, in time, of cleansing the land by substantially reducing an enormous fossil fuel dependence, thus restoring ecosystems and enriching the life of the countryside now under the threat of endless sprawl (the City of Phoenix Syndrome).
In addition, each module of the Lean Linear City (LLC) could define its proper characteristics: products, facilities, ethnicities, health, technologies, fashion, cuisine, and conviviality aligned sequentially along regional and continental routes."
[3D Rendering: Young Soo Kim & text from WHAT IF? QUADERNO 9, SOLARE: LEAN LINEAR CITY]
[image: The space between the two Lean Linear City ribbons]

"If SOLARE’s modules, with well-lubricated logistics, traverse diverse ethnicities, in a few minutes one could arrive at different urban, civic, and cultural experiences, analogous to organisms whose blood carries vital load to heart, brain, lungs, liver, eros organs, etc.
Such an astonishing line up of provinces is only conceivable with a highly efficient and swift logistical support.
Once the provinces are splintered from common logistics, what remains are civic asphyxiation, societal paralysis, starvation, and death."
[3D Rendering: Young Soo Kim & text from WHAT IF? QUADERNO 9, SOLARE: LEAN LINEAR CITY]
[image: The space between the two Lean Linear City ribbons]

"In SOLARE, five minutes on the train plus a five-minute walk takes you where you choose or need to be (daily cycles).
In five minutes on the train you could traverse ten “mini provinces” (modules), each with its own distinct flavor, akin to New York’s ethnic neighborhoods.
The modular characteristics could not be mandated; rather they would have to come about as SOLARE started to click as a lean, continuous human habitat.
Even though a single module of SOLARE (2,000 residents) is a relatively modest urban enterprise, a fully developed lean urban ribbon (tens or hundreds of kilometers), in addition to its planning, would be able to employ a very, very large, skilled, and varied labor pool for many years."

This completes this sequence of reports about the Lean Linear City.

Previous reports on the LEAN LINEAR CITY can be viewed on 4/20/05, 2/6 – 2/8/06, 8/5 – 8/14/09, 11/27 – 12/14/09.

The complete text is available in QUADERNO 9 - SOLARE The Lean Linear City.
The Quaderno is available in the Visitors Center - Galleries at Cosanti and Arcosanti, as well as on our web-site on-line store.
[3D Rendering: Young Soo Kim & text from WHAT IF? QUADERNO 9, SOLARE: LEAN LINEAR CITY]

[image: Birdseye view of the Lean Linear City design with dam]

We continue our report from 5/31/10 with updated renderings of the Lean Linear City.

The text consists of excerpts from "QUADERNO 9, SOLARE: LEAN "LINEAR CITY" written by Paolo Soleri, 2005.

"The triumphal technological march of Homo faber is overloading the poorly designed “arterial and venous” networks we naïvely have embraced. The suburban logistical network is sclerotic, and worse, doomed. In order to remain marginally viable, the life of the “organism” becomes grotesque.
An aerial view of exurban diaspora evidences that grotesque, monotonous, shallow, delusional life. It is un-civil-ized, i.e., deprived of civitas (the city), but serves well the production, consumption, segregation, waste, and pollution cycles of raw capitalism.
The survival of the fittest is its rule, while its very livelihood rests in the obscurantism of materialism."
[3D Rendering: Young Soo Kim & text from WHAT IF? QUADERNO 9, SOLARE: LEAN LINEAR CITY]
[image: Birdseye view of the Lean Linear City design, energy apron on the south side of the city]

"At the same time there is an alternative to the crude instauration of very large urban systems indifferent, in fact hostile, to that same “loving nature” we hypocritically herald.
We belong to the planet, we have been shaped for eons by it, and its basic indifference toward life’s evolution is plain to see.
Even the sun, source and first resource of life, is nothing more that a super hot, gaseous mass, the most apt god to idolize if we are so inclined."
[3D Rendering: Young Soo Kim & text from WHAT IF? QUADERNO 9, SOLARE: LEAN LINEAR CITY]
[image: Birdseye view of the Lean Linear City design, major node]

"But our indifference toward the sun and its climatic rage taxes our fragile presence.
How to best harness a fraction of the sun’s energy, now that fossil fuels are beginning to show signs of exhaustion,
is essential
to the structural and functional morphology of the proposed urban ribbon.
Its predisposition toward a clean and lean nature includes harvesting solar energy on the spot and paying attention to the logistics of contemporary consumers."
[3D Rendering: Young Soo Kim & text from WHAT IF? QUADERNO 9, SOLARE: LEAN LINEAR CITY]
[image: Birdseye view of the Lean Linear City design, modules]

"We have been de-coupling the urban from the logistical (transportation) and as long as we stay in hyper-consumption mode and persist in automobile supremacy, the conflict has no solution.
It is a simple fact of physics (transportation) and hyper-physics (the Urban Effect).
The Lean Linear City channels both the physical and the hyper-physical (civilization-culture) presence in self-contained complexes and intense urban ribbons capable of lining the continent in the leanest possible mode."

The third and last report of this series about the Lean Linear City will be posted on 6/4/2010.
[3D Rendering: Young Soo Kim & text from WHAT IF? QUADERNO 9, SOLARE: LEAN LINEAR CITY]

[image: The Lean Linear City. designed by Paolo Soleri, 3D rendering by Young Soo Kim.
A postcard of this image is now available at the Cosanti and Arcosanti Visitors Centers].

Previous reports on the LEAN LINEAR CITY can be viewed on 4/20/05, 2/6 – 2/8/06, 8/5 – 8/14/09, 11/27 – 12/14/09. This updated and recently completed series of new 3D images will be in this weeks reports, 5/31 – 6/4/10.
[3D Rendering: Young Soo Kim & text from WHAT IF? QUADERNO 9, SOLARE: LEAN LINEAR CITY]
[image: The Lean Linear City proposal, as shown at the Beijing Center of the Arts exhibition during the exhibition 3 DIMENSIONAL CITY – FUTURE CHINA, Nov. 2009 – Feb. 2010]

The text throughout these three reports consists of excerpts from "QUADERNO 9, SOLARE: LEAN LINEAR CITY", written by Paolo Soleri, 2005.

"SOLARE proposes a continuous urban ribbon, designed to intercept wind patterns of the region. It will also be sensitized to the sun’s radiation, both photovoltaic and greenhouse. Thus, energy-wise it is best suited for breezy and sunny regions."
[3D Rendering: Young Soo Kim & text from WHAT IF? QUADERNO 9, SOLARE: LEAN LINEAR CITY]
[image: The Lean Linear City proposal, seen here as an extension from an existing city]

"Briefly stated, its main characteristics are:

A series of continuous sub-ribbons extend as the Lean Linear City develops with time:

[A] Two main parallel structures of thirty or more stories extending several kilometers to hundreds of kilometers.
[B] A climate-controlled volume constituting the inner park defined by the two structures delineated above, featuring greenhouse in winter and parasol in summer.
[C] Two wind generator continua
[D] Two photovoltaic continua
[E] One greenhouse apron continuum
[F] One orchard apron continuum
[G] Several logistical bands for local, regional, and continental trains (rail and maglev)
[H] Moving walkways, shuttles, and “fast down and out” slides at appropriate locations
[I] One water “stream” for the needs of residents and travelers and for recreation.
[J] Two delivery and pick up networks
[K] Two liquid and solid waste networks."
[3D Rendering: Young Soo Kim & text from WHAT IF? QUADERNO 9, SOLARE: LEAN LINEAR CITY]
[image: View of the Lean Linear City proposal with the two linear ribbons connected to a major node]

"Following nature’s example, the design and display of the lean urban ribbon connects existing large and small habitats and helps salvage the land from diaspora while in a sustainable fashion reducing waste, pollution, and social and cultural impoverishment.
At the lower ends of the greenhouse aprons the short skirt of suburbia develops. The ballerina, the orchestra, and the spectators know the skirt must be a tutu; the shorter it is, the better it allows nature’s grace into its brief proximity.
Rigorously contained suburban spread could develop on a fascia no wider than one kilometer, so as to accommodate travel by public transportation, bicycle, and foot. The private automobile would be rigorously confined to auxiliary functions (outings, research, etc.)."
[3D Rendering: Young Soo Kim & text from WHAT IF? QUADERNO 9, SOLARE: LEAN LINEAR CITY]
[image: In the foreground we see NUDGING SPACE Arcology with the Lean Linear City in the background]

"One thing we should label correctly is time pollution, i.e., the daily waste of time due to moving things and people from here to there.
The time wasted commuting, for instance, is one of the main time pollutions of affluence and hyper-consumption. Motion implies energy spent, thus commuting is a double slam of time pollution and energy waste, and also threatens the physical and biological well-being of moving organisms.
It offers a less than rosy picture of Homo sapiens as “controller of its own destiny.”

This report continues on 6/2/10.
[3D Rendering: Young Soo Kim & text from WHAT IF? QUADERNO 9, SOLARE: LEAN LINEAR CITY]

On Thursday, May 20, 2010, Paolo Soleri visited the bronze bell foundry and the crew assembled a selection of bells for critique.
[photo & text: Anita Baker]
Paolo stressed that he was not there to impose his views or discipline but did offer some helpful comments.
[photo & text: Anita Baker]
He discussed the history of the wind-bell operation and basic design, and then examined each bell.
[photo & text: Anita Baker]
"Very elegant."

"Too many curlicues."

"I have sympathy for that design."

"A little baroque."

"Mmmm."
[photo & text: Anita Baker]
The occasion called for a group portrait of the foundry crew with Paolo.
[standing from left] Lindsey Marsh, Andy Chao (the foundry manager), Cliff Hersted, Cabiria Dourte and Peter Lindgren.
[seated] Paolo Soleri and [kneeling] Andrew Chisholm.
[photo & text: Anita Baker]

On May 22 – 23, 2010, the Arizona Highways Travel Show presented an opportunity to learn about Arizona’s attractions, events, and amenities.
The Arcosanti booth kept busy all weekend as visitors asked questions about our very distinctive project.
[photo: Young Soo Kim & text: Erin Jeffries]
Arcosanti Public Relations Coordinator Erin Jeffries tells booth visitors about Arcosanti’s tours, Café, windbells, and special events like the Juneteenth Jazz Festival or Italian Night.
Residents Youngsoo Kim and Matteo Di Michele also represented Arcosanti, talking about what makes Arcosanti unlike any other attraction in the state.
[photo: Young Soo Kim & text: Erin Jeffries]
From wine tours to gardens, from museums to hiking, tourists received a plethora of information.
[photo: Young Soo Kim & text: Erin Jeffries]
Over 100 different booths represented regions throughout the state.
Many Arizona residents came to the show hoping to plan local vacations and trips this year.
[photo: Young Soo Kim & text: Erin Jeffries]

Welcome to the May 16., 2010 workshop participants!

[top from left]:
Masato Kurachi from Japan, Wilder Fichter, Logan Graham [scholarship], Craig Shirley, Patrick Thompson and David Wilson.
[middle from left]:
Ryan Fiebing [seminar + 1 week], Joseph Rivera-Ramos [scholarship], Yoonhye Yi from Korea [seminar + 1 week] and Blase Masserant [seminar + 1week].
[front from left]:
Mark Kieser [workshop and planning internship], Jacob Zucker and Jiwon Lee from Korea.
Jacob Zucker is the youngest son of alumnus Jeff Zucker.
[photo & text: sue]