“The work itself argues against you, is a source of power for him. “When the abuser is a publicly known, creative person, there is an added layer of complication,” she wrote. Daniela likened her experience to that of other women of the #MeToo era who have accused powerful men with cultural capital. She had told some of Soleri’s inner circle decades earlier, she wrote, and they had done nothing. In November 2017, four years after her father’s death, Soleri’s youngest daughter, Daniela, published an essay on, claiming that her father had sexually abused her and attempted to rape her as a teenager.
“I don’t have the gift of proselytising.” But this was not the full extent of the problem, it emerged. “The main fault is me,” Soleri told me then. Planned as a city of 5,000, its population has, however, rarely risen above 150. Arcosanti was a showcase for his concept of “arcology” (architecture plus ecology), which argued that cities should be compact, car-free, low-impact, civic-minded. Its utopian community was the brainchild of Paolo Soleri, an outsider architect who looked at America’s unfolding future of consumerism, urban sprawl and environmental destruction, and decided there had to be something better. This experimental city in the Arizona desert, founded in 1970, is like a set from a sci-fi movie for an alien civilisation more enlightened than ours.Īnd in some ways, Arcosanti is more enlightened. A rcosanti looks much as it did when I visited in 2008: curving vaults, apses and amphitheatres with patterns inscribed in the concrete circular windows, winding little paths, cypress trees, wind chimes tinkling in the breeze.
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