European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine someday City in the Sun Arizona desert dream Bojoh Barbour associated press out there at Cordes Junction in the High Arizona desert two hours North of amid the Mesquite and the dry a dream Lan three percent of a it is the Concrete Core of a someday the dream of italian architect Paolo a almost frail Man with a voice so soft one must Bend to his the dream was ozymandias in a Soleri was and is proud of a City that would face the Sun from which All blessings a layered one with self contained and yet offering Access to an uncontaminated he called it and said grandly the urbanization process is actually a process of reaching Grace and actualizing in the 1970s Soleri was flooded with students of new wave looking for answers to the sprawling Urban the rotting inner the ghetto to Paolo Soleri and his vision of a vertical City were the it was to House would draw its Energy from the Sun and its food from vast it would Rise 25 stories Over the there would be no automobiles and no need for everything would be reachable on Basic Industry would be As would cultural and Community at a distance it would appear As one but it would be a vertical Cluster of Many at age Paolo Soleri tries to keep his dream alive with meager a budget of something less than a half million dollars a he notes ruefully that he is now entitled to a senior citizens discount at the but always seems to go at the wrong once his workshops Drew 300 students apiece As Many As a year each paying some to contribute their work and learn from he once we could not do what we Are doing without the affluent Young the youth in this country might be spoiled but they Are less cynical than in Many other now staff and students number Only about 50 Over the and Many Are at work fashioning the Ceramic and brass wind Ells and other artistic objects which provide most of the Revenue for the cos anti Soleris umbrella he visits Arcosanti three or four times a week to oversee the work at the site and plan the a photo architect Soleri at his dream City of Arcosanti blueprint a photo the City was designed to be self contained and but contrasted to a decade there is Little work to and the future appears dimmer and was he too ambitious were the eyes of youth too Bright with expectations does he feel regret maybe i could have been a very successful architect if i had stayed in the he but the trouble with that if i i would not have developed the ideas that i think Are very perhaps his plans were too he since everything is not coming but i have Many i still dont know i still dont know Why society didst was he ahead of his time there is no laughter in his voice As he Ive been told that Many times and i kept but maybe there i dont Soleri lives and works at the cos anti foundation in Paradise an affluent suburb of which is a mostly affluent suburb of there is a Garden like Hung with his where his architectural ideas Are on perhaps the most is the design of a City which looks like an enormous Mountain standing Over its own reflection in a he leads a if not ascetic in a painters studio without air conditioning in a state which lives on the loss of his two years was both a personal and professional she was a an integral part of his will Arcosanti Ever be completed the completion of it went out the window Many years but what i have been trying to do in the last five or six is to focus on the critical which is about 10 percent of the which would be about 500 people Active on the i think at that Point it would be self sustaining and also quite but How to do How to raise the Money for the Concrete and the interest in the workers the new thing is the cause he would dedicate the Bells he makes to various there would be childrens hunger Bells to protest atomic if they Start they could be Good Revenue and would also connect the project with those wed give a percentage of the income to the causes if any cause wants to endorse the they can sell them and make More then they get More than a percentage of our april 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13