Z House + Winery Construction Update by Mark Silva

Corona House - Bring it by Mark Silva

After excruciatingly painful jurisdictional processing, a building permit has finally been issued for Corona House.

Hello 2023.

Z House + Winery Construction Update by Mark Silva

Z House + Winery Construction Update by Mark Silva

Corona House by Mark Silva

Ocean view La Jolla Reinvention. Soon to be Permitted, construction start beginning of 2023. Click images to enlarge.

Renderings by McCullough Landscape Architecture

Fossil Canyon Pre-Run by Mark Silva

Taco got a little exercise on this Thanksgiving Day

Another Visit At Arcosanti by Mark Silva

A powerful image of a man with a powerful determination to serve mankind. Photo taken at Cosanti, a sister site.

Paolo Soleri was a visionary. His concepts from the 1950s which he worked toward his entire life, are as valid now as ever. Arcology - the blending of architecture and ecology as a way for mankind to move into the future in harmony with nature, and with each other. With his own hands, and with apprentices, he started building the first prototype, Arcosanti in 1970. His vision of mega-cities where the personal automobile is not needed, and all needs are obtained locally, is I believe how we are going to have to end up, eventually. He was just way ahead of his time, and the idea just too big to fit into the corporate for profit world we live in. Click his name above to learn more about this pivotal figure in 20th century architecture, and one who should have been taken seriously, but now I think the time is more than ripe for his concepts to be looked at much more carefully.

Peeps working in the ceramics studio, other studio images are of the metallurgy studio.

Z House + Winery Construction Update by Mark Silva

Z House + Winery Construction by Mark Silva

That Stair by Mark Silva

One That Got Away 2019

Z House + Winery Construction Update by Mark Silva

Flower Shoot by Mark Silva

Bought some flowers yesterday, shot them in my studio today.

First Desert Ride of the Season by Mark Silva

My rides in the desert have become nearly sacred to me. The beauty of the desert, and planet Earth as a whole, makes me thankful to be alive to experience it. Monarch butterflies traveling with me in large numbers, westward. Feeling as one with the planet is the best feeling.

My place

Flow

The machines that carriy me

Super green October

Beautiful geology

Mud crackle

Wonder where Man’s first idea of pottery came from…

A still of the still

No power generating today

Each of these are using power, just sitting there