Architects of the Southwest - by Francesc Zamora (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Architects of the Southwest: Building in the Desert includes residential projects and landscape design works built in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. All the projects highlight the Southwest as an unparalleled region with a rich variety of landscapes--rolling hills, mountains, canyons, mesas, deserts, and volcanoes. These conditions offer unique design challenges and opportunities to create works that adapt to the natural environment--no matter how harsh it is--rather than conquer it while addressing sustainability." -- Publisher's website.

Book Synopsis

Architects of the Southwest: Grounded in the Mountains and the Desert includes a stunning showcase of residential architecture and landscape design from Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. All of the projects selected highlight the Southwest as an unparalleled region with a rich variety of landscapes--rolling hills, mountains, canyons, mesas, deserts, and volcanoes. Add to these potential extremes of heat, cold and drought, and one is faced with unique design challenges along with the opportunity to create works that adapt to the natural environment, rather than conquer it, all the while addressing sustainability.