Artist/architect Paolo Soleri studied at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West and with the famous architect himself, although Soleri's designs took on a more amorphic and almost insect-like look about them. The photos were taken by me at a retrospective of the artist at The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in 2018.

This work is a dam design for Mesa, AZ. It really resembles what you imagine a dissected ant hill might look like. Soleri founded two schools/art residences around Phoenix which are both still functioning, Cosanti and Arcosanti.

Soleri and his students started making bronze bells as a source of income and an artistic outlet. The bells can still be purchased at Cosanti.

Architectural model for Arcosanti, Mayer, AZ