Phoenix: Up From the Desert
Modernism Magazine, Fall 2007
The seeds of contemporary Phoenix-area architecture were post-Civil War adobe and newfangled wood houses. Today, many styles are represented throughout the country’s fifth most populous city: Territorial, Spanish Mission, International, Mid-Modern. The influence of Frank Lloyd Wright is pervasive: Taliesin West, ASU Gammage, the Arizona Biltmore (he consulted) and many homes. But, the work of Al Beadle in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s is celebrated here as are others’ designs of that time and today: Ralph Haver, Kemper and Michael Goodwin, Ned Sawyer, Bennie Gonzales, Will Bruder, Wright apprentice Vern Swaback and Paolo Soleri. The tour bus leaves inside.
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