Drop City Photos
Drop City, a “live-in” work of Drop Art, was the first rural commune of the 1960s,
and the first to be grounded in art practice. A community of many innovations,
it was the site of one of the first solar-heated buildings of that decade.
Established in 1965, the four founders were soon joined by a core group of approximately 12 adults and children. By the end of 1968 the original occupants had moved to Boulder, Colorado to start an artists' cooperative, "Criss-Cross", whose purpose, like Drop City's, was to function in "synergetic" interaction between peers to create experimental artistic innovation. Among the innovative endeavors to evolve out of Drop-City are:
• in 1969, the early solar energy company - Zomeworks, in Albuquerque;
• the artists' group "Criss-Cross", operative in New York and Colorado in the 1970s;
• the development of the "61-Zone System" by ZomeTool of Boulder, Colorado;
• and in the early 1980s, an important discovery of a cubic fusion of interpenetrating fractal tetrahedra by Richard Kallweit.
Click here to view a Drop City segment from BBC's documentary "Towards Tomorrow" (circa 1968).
and the first to be grounded in art practice. A community of many innovations,
it was the site of one of the first solar-heated buildings of that decade.
Established in 1965, the four founders were soon joined by a core group of approximately 12 adults and children. By the end of 1968 the original occupants had moved to Boulder, Colorado to start an artists' cooperative, "Criss-Cross", whose purpose, like Drop City's, was to function in "synergetic" interaction between peers to create experimental artistic innovation. Among the innovative endeavors to evolve out of Drop-City are:
• in 1969, the early solar energy company - Zomeworks, in Albuquerque;
• the artists' group "Criss-Cross", operative in New York and Colorado in the 1970s;
• the development of the "61-Zone System" by ZomeTool of Boulder, Colorado;
• and in the early 1980s, an important discovery of a cubic fusion of interpenetrating fractal tetrahedra by Richard Kallweit.
Click here to view a Drop City segment from BBC's documentary "Towards Tomorrow" (circa 1968).
