A Prescription for Campus Care

Architectural Record, March 2013

The 36,900-sq-ft LEED Platinum-targeted Health Services Building at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz., is light-suffused, sustainable, inviting — a contextually sited destination for students seeking medical treatment and guidance in a garden/spa environment conducive to healing and good health practices. The new building adds approximately 20,000 square feet of clinical space on the south and incorporates the renovated two-story 1968 structure on the north while adding a grass sward. This area is the historical heart of campus, so the HSB is incorporated with three century-old structures, all on the National Register of Historic Places: Old Main, the University Club and the Piper Writer’s House.

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Phoenix: Up From the Desert

Modernism Magazine, Fall 2007

The seeds of contemporary Phoenix-area architecture were post-Civil War adobe and newfangled wood houses. Today, many styles are represented throughout the country’s fifth most populous city: Territorial, Spanish Mission, International, Mid-Modern. The influence of Frank Lloyd Wright is pervasive: Taliesin West, ASU Gammage, the Arizona Biltmore (he consulted) and many homes. But, the work of Al Beadle in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s is celebrated here as are others’ designs of that time and today: Ralph Haver, Kemper and Michael Goodwin, Ned Sawyer, Bennie Gonzales, Will Bruder, Wright apprentice Vern Swaback and Paolo Soleri. The tour bus leaves inside.

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Wright or Wrong?

Arizona Foothills, October 2004

In the 1950s, Frank Lloyd Wright designed what would have been the most spectacular state capitol building in the country — set amidst the landmark Papago Buttes in Phoenix. As with so many of the architect’s before-their-time designs, that building was never built. More than a half century later, a savvy Phoenix-based developer placed one of the many spires intended for that project as an intersection focal point for his shopping complex in Scottsdale. Wright or Wrong? Inspiring, or not?

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