Permitted, construction to start soon. Video - Go full screen with sound on.

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

Hello 2023.

New construction 2,300 sf home + ADU for a family to be built on a vacant lot in Carlsbad, CA, USA.

Drone video and still photography by MLA General Contractor, Inc. Matthew Amos pilot. https://www.mlacontractor.com

Music and video production by Mark A Silva Architect

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

Renderings by McCullough Landscape Architecture

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.