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Constructing Arizona

Paperback Book  |  Animals & Nature  |  17 Dec 2025
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Constructing Arizona is the first book to comprehensively present the architecture of the Sonoran Desert region of Arizona, balancing a breadth of projects with a depth of analysis.

Building on over fifty interviews with noted members of the architecture community in Arizona and the critical first-hand analysis of their built work, this book reveals the inherent principles, vocabulary, and influences of the regional architecture while also tying its contemporary makeup to a lineage of constructing in the Sonoran Desert. Schwartz argues that the best work of this region is not united by a stylistic or intellectual construct, but, instead, through the architects’ development of a variety of relationships between architecture and place. As such, the analysis provided is organized into thematic chapters, each focused on understanding these relationships to the primary characteristics of place: light, heat, air, water, ground, flora and fauna, tradition, materiality, and making. The lessons provided, however, extend well past this unique region of the globe as the framework provided can be applied in any context, allowing Constructing Arizona to serve as a valuable reference guide for thinking about the crafting of an architecture of place, especially those places in the world with rapidly expanding urban conditions in arid environments.

Given the current state of our planet, these lessons will be of critical importance to communities across the globe that soon may have to adapt to living in similar conditions.

Title: Constructing Arizona

Format: Paperback Book

Release Date: 17 Dec 2025

Type: Chad Schwartz

Sku: 3451884

Catalogue No: 9781032864297

Category: Animals & Nature


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