Outpost - Arivaca, Arizona

Anasazi architecture is still with us. The Pueblo Bonito ruin of Chaco Canyon in Northwest New Mexico is just one of many buildings in this desolate canyon, steeped in both mysticism and an ancient engineering accomplishment.  What did this geometry mean to them?  The idea of a circular room in the human context symbolized the prefered space of a wise person. We can ponder why this is so.  We still have some remaining achitecture to examine and speculate on their story.  In order to gain an insight into their thinking of symbolic space, I am recreating Anasazi architecture in my natural building projects in Arivaca, using locally available materials such as stone, clay, sand and straw.  I plan to use the circular room I’m constructing as my studio for digital filmmaking and post-production.  I feel sure the environment will be calming and insiring.  Yet at the sime time I plan to be attentive to the idea of the “circle” and the thinking behind the motivation of the Anasazi.

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