Drop City was an artist's community that formed in southern Colorado in 1965. Abandoned by the early 70's, it became known as the first rural hippy commune. Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Area  Ranked 8th  - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²)  - Width 280 miles (451 km)  - Length 380 miles (612 km)  - % water 0. ... Hippies (singular hippie or sometimes hippy) were members of the 1960s counterculture movement who adopted a communal or nomadic lifestyle, renounced corporate nationalism and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, and/or Native American religious culture, and were otherwise at odds with traditional middle class Western values. ... A Commune is a kind of intentional community where most resources are shared and there is little or no personal property. ...

Drop City

Establishment

In 1965, the four original founders, Gene & JoAnn Bernofsky, Richard Kallweit and Clark Richert, art students and filmmakers from the University of Kansas and University of Colorado, moved to a seven acre tract of land near Trinidad, in south eastern Colorado. Their intention was to create a live-in work of Drop Art, continuing an art concept they had developed earlier at the University of Kansas. Drop Art (sometimes called "droppings") was informed by the "happenings" of Allan Kaprow and the impromptu performances, a few years earlier, of John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and Buckminster Fuller, at Black Mountain College. The University of Kansas (often referred to as just KU or Kansas) is an institution of higher learning located in Lawrence, Kansas. ... The University of Colorado (CU) System consists of five campuses: University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Colorado Springs University of Colorado at Denver University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Fitzsimons campus of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, scheduled to open in 2007 in Aurora, Colorado... Allan Kaprow (August 23, 1927 - April 5, 2006) helped to develop the Environment and Happening in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. ... John Cage For the character of John Cage from the TV show Ally McBeal see: John Cage (Character) John Milton Cage (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American experimental music composer, writer and visual artist. ... Robert Rauschenberg (1925-) is a painter, sculptor, and graphic artist known for helping to redefine American art in the 1950s and 60s, providing an alternative to the then-dominant aesthetic of Abstract Expressionism. ... In the U.S. postage stamp commemorating Buckminster Fuller and his contributions to architecture and science, some of his inventions are visible. ... This article is in need of attention. ...

As Drop City gained notoriety in the 60's underground, people from around the world came to stay and work on the construction projects. Inspired by the architectural ideas of Buckminister Fuller and Steve Baer, residents constructed domes and zonahedra to house themselves, using geometric panels made from the metal of automobile roofs and other inexpensive materials. In 1967 the group, now consisting of 10 core people, won Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion award for their constructions. Richard Buckminster Bucky Fuller (July 12, 1895 _ July 1, 1983) was an American visionary, designer, architect, inventor, and writer. ... Steve Baer (1938- ) is an American inventor and solar and residential designer. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Soon the community grew in reputation and size, accelerated by media attention, including news reports on national television networks. With the complex of eight domes and geometric buildings constructed, the original occupants of the community, moved to Boulder, Colorado to start an artist's cooperative, "Criss-Cross", whose purpose, like Drop City's, was to function in a "synergetic" interaction between peers (no bosses) to create experimental artistic innovation. Among the innovative endeavors to evolve out of Drop-City are: Boulder (, Mountain Time Zone) is a city in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. ... There have been several things called Criss Cross, including: Criss Cross (1949 movie) Criss Cross (band) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

• in 1969, the early solar energy company - Zomeworks, in Albuquerque, NM;
• the artists' group "Criss-Cross, operative in New York and Colorado in the '70s;
• the development of the "61-Zone System" by ZomeTool of Boulder, Colorado;
• in 1970 the discovery, by Clark Richert, of "five-fold symmetrical non-periodic tessellations" (now popularly known as "Penrose tiling").
• and in the early 80's, an important discovery of a cubic fusion of interpenetrating fractal tetrahedra by Richard Kallweit.

The Rio Grande flowing past Albuquerque Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. ... A Penrose tiling A Penrose tiling is pattern of tiles, discovered by Roger Penrose and Robert Ammann, which could completely cover an infinite plane, but only in a pattern which is non-repeating (aperiodic). ... The boundary of the Mandelbrot set is a famous example of a fractal. ...

Legacy

By 1970, Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico were littered with intentional communities, some which sprang up on their own, and some which were inspired by Drop City. Libre, north of Gardner, Colorado and founded by several ex-"Droppers", was among the more well known, and some continue to exist in some form today. Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Area  Ranked 5th  - Total 121,665 sq mi (315,194 km²)  - Width 342 miles (550 km)  - Length 370 miles (595 km)  - % water 0. ... Gratis versus Libre is the distinction between no cost and freedom, a distiction not made by the word free. ...

At Drop City, debris and building remnants from the original settlement remain at the site today, though it is not inhabited. The property is currently used as farm land. Debris (French, pronounced (IPA) dibri) is a word used to describe the remains of something that has been otherwise destroyed. ...

References

• The Hippies and American Values: Books: Timothy Miller
• John Q McDonald --- 21 July 2006

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