We visited a few years ago. It really is worth seeing in person, particularly if you were already making the drive from Phoenix up to Sedona / Flagstaff / Gran

We visited a few years ago. It really is worth seeing in person, particularly if you were already making the drive from Phoenix up to Sedona / Flagstaff / Grand Canyon and can spare an hour or two. One really can sense both Soleri's vision and how far the implementation fell short of his ideals. By coincidence, we had visited shortly after Soleri died (had no idea until we got there). One of the people we met described Soleri's last visit to Arcosanti a few months prior. My memory's fuzzy now, but I think they said that he had looked around without saying much, then said something like "I'm done," and never went there again. (My apologies for misremembering the quote, it's been a little while and I haven't thought about it very often.)