After living upstate Monday through Wednesday, this was the last week of my 6-week internship at Abell & Associates. Instead of talking about how much I learned and what a phenomenal experience it was, I won't.
That goes without saying.
Here are some personal photos of Albert Chase McArthur's Biltmore Hotel and Paolo Soleri's Cosanti to speak up.
The Biltmore Hotel (1929)
Stairs that hang from the ceiling
Cosanti
Without a doubt, Cosanti was my favorite example of architecture. Paolo Soleri espouses "arcology," his own term combining architecture and ecology. At Cosanti (another invention meaning "against things" in italian), he and a team of fellow hippies made a village of huge structures out of concrete, clay and dirt, lived in them, and have continued to add onto them over the years. The man is 91, but the place was more 9100 BC. Soleri has another experimental camp named Arcosanti, which I would go to in a heartbeat.
Now wait! There's more.
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