Arcosanti

A High Desert Commune

This experimental community was founded in the early Seventies by architect Peter Soleri as an arcology, or single complex containing all the elements of a town. In this concept, people would live, work and socialize in what could be a single building, saving resources and minimizing the community’s ecological footprint..

Arcosanti is located in central Arizona, between Phoenix and Flagstaffff.

A lonely location

Aecosanti is built into the near wall of this canyon near Mayer, Arizona

The view from the entrqnce lobby out over the camyon
The dining hall
The first apse is now a general meeting place
Finishing steps for the ceramic bells
The amphitheater
Steps leading down into the amphitheaterhe amphitheater
Inside the art center