Modern Phoenix: The Neighborhood Network

Architects

Modern Phoenix is the internet's most comprehensive clearinghouse of information about Modernism in Arizona.

For a primer on Arizona Architecture, download the 100 Degrees of Design PDF, the definitive modern mini-mag by Desert Living.

Midcentury Designers

Al Beadle

The Healy/Fearnow Residence
The Beadle Archive is our catalogue of works by Al Beadle in Arizona
Photos from the Ernest A. and Billie W. Uhlmann Family Archive illustrate the glory days of the swingin' Safari Hotel in Scottsdale.
Modern Phoenix Week 2010 gave participants an interactive view into restored midcentury modern homes in Paradise Gardens.
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 Preservation 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
Safari Tales - The rise and fall of the old Safari Resort in downtown Scottsdale
San Diego Developer can't afford to renovate the Western Bell building, plans to 'doze it

Ralph Haver, AIA

NEW! Find everything related to Haver in the Ralph Haver Archive
NEW! Jimmie Ray Nunn FAIA: An Honest Architect
NEW! James Salter AIA: The Artist of Haver's Firm
NEW! Brief Chronology of Ralph Haver's life and work
NEW! Haverhoods: The definitive directory to all confirmed Ralph Haver neighborhoods we know of. If it's not in here, it's not confirmed.
NEW! RARE! Vintage floorplans, materials cabinet layouts and exterior color schemes for Haver's Starlite Vista tract home plans
NEW! All new photos of Starlite Vista by Ralph Haver
NEW! Vintage photos of a home in Janet Manor in the 50s and 60s, aka Ralph Haver's Town and Country II in Uptown Phoen
NEW! P.A.T. Homes in Tucson were stylishly designed by Haver for the typical American income
NEW! Vintage ads from 1956 for Town and Country Manor, the first of four Town and Country tract home developments by Ralph Haver and Fred Woodward
NEW! Golden Keys condominiums Phase 1 are credited to Ralph Haver's firm in 1961. What do you think, should they go historic?
The Donaldson Residence
Biography of Ralph Haver
The Triangle Building, suspected be by Ralph Haver
Country Club Apartments by Ralph Haver in the late 40s
The Evertson House in Marion Estates by Ralph Haver, a rare two-story "Swedish Modern" home
The Grebles Residence in the 50s; a Haver tract home in Northwood modified by the Grebles Family.
Ralph Haver's Arizona Bank transformed into The Vig Uptown [YouTube]
The Lou Regester (now Copenhagen) furniture store by Ralph Haver put out some swanky ads in its day.
The Phoenix Municipal Building put out a neat little brochure about their Haver and Varney-designed building to help educate the public.
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.
Growing up Haver: A Modern Phoenix Family Chronicle by Bucky Haver
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]
Lei'ed to Rest - The Kon Tiki
Kon Tiki Memorabilia collection

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

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

Blaine Drake, AIA

Paolo Soleri

Arcosanti and Cosanti
Save our Soleri! Amphitheater in New Mexico

Frank Lloyd Wright

FLW didn't really consider himself to be part of the Modernist movement, so we don't extensively cover his work on our website, but we do have a bit.

Here are some other authoritative resources you might enjoy.

Judith Chafee

Architect Judith Chafee Melded Sleek Modern Design To The Sonoran Desert

Contemporary Architects Working in the Modernist Spirit

Marlene Imirzian & Associates
www.imirzian-architects.com

Secrest Architecture
www.secrestarchitecture.com

AU Design Studio
www.audesignstudio.com

Tennen Studio
www.tennenstudio.com

Rob Paulus Architects
www.robpaulus.com

Salazar Architects
www.salazararchitects.com

Sakellar Associates
www.sakellar.com
Includes chronologies from the 1950s onward and video

Koss Design+Build
www.kossdb.com

Kendle Design Collaborative
www.kendledesign.com

SEAD: Studio for the Exploration of Architecture in the Desert
www.seadarchitects.com

Westlake Reed Leskosky
Leaders in historic restoration and adaptive re-use
www.WRLdesign.com

Douglas Architecture and Planning
www.douglasarchitects.com

180 Degrees
www.180degreesinc.com

Architekton
www.architekton.com

The Construction Zone
www.czphx.com
Residential firms are building it for themselves

DeBartolo Architects
www.debartoloarchitects.com

Adapt Architecture
www.adaptarch.com

Jones Studio
jonesstudioinc.com
southwestNET @ SMOCA, summer 2006
Keeping up with the Joneses

[merz] Project
www.merzproject.com

Randall Fonce
www.foncearchitecture.com

Circle West Architects, P.C.
www.circlewest.net

Michael Boucher
www.boucherlandscape.com

Blank Studio
www.blankspaces.net

Will Bruder
www.willbruder.com
Will Bruder: Recent Works
Pixelmap archive on Will Bruder

Wendell Burnette
www.wendellburnettearchitects.com
Burnette Studio Residence: Process of an Architectural Work

Marwan al Sayed
Masa Studio
www.masastudio.com
Page One Resort, Utah Concept Renderings
(collaboration with Rick Joy, Wendell Burnette, Michael Boucher and Norman Koren)

Rick Joy
www.rickjoy.com
Desert Works

Richard + Bauer
www.richard-bauer.com

Studio MA
www.studioma.com

Urban Dencity
urbandencityaz.com

Michael P. Johnson
Michael P. Johnson Design Studios Ltd.
www.mpjstudio.com

Kristine Woolsey
Woolsey Studio, Inc.
www.woolseystudio.com

Ibarra Rosano
Design Architects
www.ibarrarosano.com/index.php
NEW! Blue Moon Rising

coLAB Studio
Matt and Maria Salenger
www.colabstudio.com
The Cedar Street Residence

Patry Building Company
www.patry.cc

FORS architecture+interiors
www.forsarchitecture.com

Formwerks Studios
www.formwerksstudios.com