2024-12-22T14:50:38-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/38404060/arcosanti-urban-laboratory-or-a-retirement-tower-for-golf-shy-retirees Nam Henderson 2012-02-17T13:41:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3b/3bki8ntli8b6i2am.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Mr. Soleri, however, will discuss his marvelous, flawed creation with disarming frankness. Has Arcosanti, for instance, lived up to its potential? &ldquo;No. Don&rsquo;t be silly,&rdquo; he said, and then laughed.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Michael Tortorello recently visited Arcosanti to check in on the status of the famed,&nbsp;Utopian&nbsp;urban&nbsp;laboratory. He finds it in transition as last fall, Mr. Soleri finally retired (at age 92) as the president of the <a href="http://www.arcosanti.org/project/background/cosanti/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cosanti Foundation</a>.&nbsp;Jeff Stein, 60, formerly dean of the Boston Architectural College, is the&nbsp;foundation&rsquo;s new president and under his guidance, the foundation is&nbsp;beginning&nbsp;to explore ways of developing a more profitable, privatized or at least self-sustaining model for shaping&nbsp;Arcosanti's future.</p>