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Arcosanti is the home of the bell-making enterprise of Cosanti Originals, which sells Soleri's sculptural wind bells to support the greater architectural project. Arcosanti at the golden hour : The Vaults (left) and the Crafts III building (right), with the Ceramics Apse hidden between them.
I lived at Arcosanti & Cosanti for 17 years and worked in the metal studio making the bells. The bells were originally referred to as "windbells." Then later that was broadened to "wind chimes." A windbell has an internal clapper only. A wind chime has external clappers as well/or instead.
In 1970, Soleri outgrew the site. He had coined "arcology" by combining architecture and ecology; then, combining "arcology" with "Cosanti", he founded Arcosanti, an "urban laboratory" in the desert seventy miles north, for which he became famous. As students and the frontier of development moved there, Cosanti became the headquarters and ...
A metal wind chime. Wind chimes are a type of percussion instrument constructed from suspended tubes, rods, bells, or other objects that are often made of metal or wood.The tubes or rods are suspended along with some type of weight or surface which the tubes or rods can strike when they or another wind-catching surface are blown by the natural movement of air outside.
Paolo Soleri (21 June 1919 – 9 April 2013) [1] was an American architect and urban planner. He established the educational Cosanti Foundation and Arcosanti.Soleri was a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006.
In ancient Rome, a tintinnabulum (less often tintinnum) [1] was a wind chime or assemblage of bells. A tintinnabulum often took the form of a bronze ithyphallic figure or of a fascinum, a magico-religious phallus thought to ward off the evil eye and bring good fortune and prosperity. A tintinnabulum acted as a door amulet.