Constructing Arizona

Name: Constructing Arizona
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Constructing ArizonaEmbracing an Architecture of Place in the Sonoran Desert\nAuthor(s): Chad Schwartz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032864327, 978-1032864327\nSynopsis\nConstructing 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.\n\nBuilding on over fifty interviews with noted members of the architecture community in Arizona and 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, th.