Drop City was a 1965 artists’ settlement near Trinidad, Colorado, that turned geodesic domes, salvaged materials, and communal living into a radical experiment. It helped establish the visual language of the rural counterculture, but publicity, crowding, scarcity, and weak boundaries overwhelmed its original project. The founding group had departed by 1969; the community was effectively finished by 1973, and its domes are gone. The Art Institute of Chicago Spatial Agency Written by the Woodstock Museum Editorial Team, Woodstock Museum, Saugerties, NY What was Drop City, and who founded it? The Drop City commune history begins not with a back-to-the-land manifesto, but [...]