ARCHITECTS
Modern Phoenix is the internet's only comprehensive clearinghouse of information about Modernism in Phoenix, Arizona and throughout the American Southwest. Here we have compiled all known links and our own research on the Classic Modernists and the Next Generation of Arizonan architects.
First, download 100 Degrees of Design, the definitive modern mini-mag by Desert Living
[Classic Modernists]
Al Beadle
The Beadle Archive is an ongoing catalogue of the complete works of Al Beadle in Arizona
NEW! Photos from the Ernest A. and Billie W. Uhlmann Family Archive illustrate the glory days of the swingin' Safari Hotel in Scottsdale.
NEW! Modern Phoenix Week 2010gave participants an interactive view into restored midcentury modern homes in Paradise Gardens, Paradise Valley and Uptown Phoenix. Our speaking engagements, gallery show and other Modern Phoenix Week events are extensively covered in over 500 images.
All about Paradise Gardens
Farewell, Mountain Bell
Al Beadle's Executive Towers. in 1962 Alfred Newman Beadle designed the tallest highrise residental structure ever in uptown Phoenix. Join us for an insider's tour of this seminal work in Beadle's career.
Phoenix Beadle House Saved in Preservaiton Online magazine
Al Beadle's Safari Hotel Vintage postcards
The Steel and Glass Man by Gene Garrison
Paradise Gardens Model Home Brochure (Whether Beadle enjoyed it or not, his name is still on the brochure front and back)
Video clip from Gnosis documentary on Al Beadle
www.gnosisltd.org/beadle.html
Safari Tales - The rise and fall of the old
Safari Resort in downtown Scottsdale
www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/
1997-05-22/news/feature_print.html
San Diego Developer
can't afford to renovate the Western Bell building, plans to
'doze it
phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/
2005/01/17/story1.html
Ralph Haver, AIA
UPDATE! The Lou Regester (now Copenhagen) furniture store by Ralph Haver put out some swanky ads in its day.
UPDATE! The Phoenix Municipal Building put out a neat little brochure about their Haver and Varney-designed building to help educate the public.
NEW! The back patio porch at The Hopkins House is finally on its way to restoration after decades of enclosure.
NEW! Park Lee Alice, originally designed by Ralph Haver, envisioned a meandering brook in the middle of West Central Phoenix. Now in the hands of the City of Phoenix, they plan to rehab it into affordable housing.
The professional portfolios of Haver, Nunn & Jensen. And Nelson. And Collamer. And Associates. According to his staff it was still "Haver, Nunn-the-less". View over 27 of the firm's award-winning projects in Arizona (many of them long gone) including the Cine Capri theater, the Koko Club, First Federal Savings and Loan, Barrow's, The City of Phoenix Municpal Complex and Coronado High School.
Photos from the 3rd Annual Modern Phoenix Home tour in Ralph Haver's Marlen Grove
History of the Hopkins House, an original 1946 Ralph Haver brick home
Architect of old Cine Capri left design legacy in Valley By Johanna Haver
Liz
Wilson's research on Ralph Haver's Town
and Country neighborhood of Scottsdale [PDF]
Growing up Haver: A Modern Phoenix Family Chronicle
by Bucky Haver
www.modernphoenix.net/haverchronicle.htm
Kon Tiki Hotel Doomed for Demolition?
www.phoenixnewtimes.com/
issues/1993-12-15/feature.html
Serbin Studio's article on Marlen Grove
serbinstudio.com/issue_5.html
Retro Valley Homes Taking the US Spotlight
http://www.azcentral.com/home/design/
\articles/0324modern24-CP.html
Calvin C. Straub, FAIA
Calvin C. Straub, FAIA inspired thousands of students in who attended his World Architecture lectures at Arizona Sate University. An accomplished architect in his own right, this "father of California post-and-beam architecture" fused the arts and crafts tradition with modernism and brought his special blend of design to Phoenix in the 1960s.
Fred Guirey, FAIA
All about Fred Guirey on ModernPhoenix
D.K. Taylor
NEW! Architect DK Taylor settled down in Scottsdale and built a beautiful home in Paradise Valley. He even designed the Sandra Day O'Connor house, a work so distinctive it was disassembled brick by brick and rebuilt in Papago Park! Find out more about this obscure architect and his desert modern homes.
Howard Madole
All
About Madole on ModernPhoenix
Bennie Gonzales, AIA
Boulders Design Point of Contention by Johanna Haver
Transcript of Bennie Gonzales on Horizon in 2003
Architect designed building to fit in with community
The Acacia Branch Library
Ocotillo Branch Library and more design history about it
Photo of Bennie from Stories of Arizona
The World's Tallest Kachina?
Blaine Drake
Requiem in Shades of Gray: The Scoville House
www.asu.edu/lib/arch/libarchives/
drawings/drake.blaine.html
http://sun.yumasun.com/google/
ysarchive8623.html
Paolo Soleri
Arcosanti and Cosanti
www.cosanti.org/
A resident's eye view of Arcosanti
www.kunzelmedia.com/gallery/Arcosanti
DWR Salutes Paolo Soleri
Article and Photos
A stay in the Sky Suite
www.waltlockley.com/arcosanti/arcosanti.htm
Frank Lloyd Wright
FLW didn't really consider himself to be part of the Modernist movement, so we don't formally cover his work on our website. However, here are some authoritative resources you might enjoy.
www.savewright.org
www.franklloydwright.org
www.franklloydwright.org/
wright/index.htm?terms=%22frank+lloyd+wright
www.greatbuildings.com/
buildings/Taliesin_West.html
www.taliesin.edu/
Judith Chafee
Architect Judith
Chafee Melded Sleek Modern Design To The Sonoran Desert
www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/currents/
Content?oid=oid:42143
An abandoned Modernism
www.loudpapermag.com/article.php?id=32
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