Phoenix Observed

 

Welcome to the most comprehensive source about Phoenix architecture on the web.

You'll often hear two things about Phoenix as an urban experience: that it "doesn't have any history", and it "doesn't have any architecture".

After a couple of years of writing and photographing and researching Phoenix, and interviews with (in no particular order) Frank Henry, John Waddell, Kay Coze, Nancy Beadle, Michael P. Johnson, Paolo Soleri, Wendell Burnette, Wendell Rossman, Will Bruder, Hermann Jacobi, Rick Schreiber, Wenceslas Sarmiento, Ned Sawyer, and many others connected to the past, present and future of Phoenix and its architecture, there's only one word to say.

Ha!

 

 

Overview

 

   
   

 

 

Mid-Century

 

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

 

 

Before Mid-Century

 

   
   
   
   
   

 

 

After Mid-Century

 

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

 

Wright and Soleri

 

   
   
   
   
   
   

 

 

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