A High Desert Architectural Philosophy

To be wholly Modern, yet of the High Desert,
To be fully Present, yet of Timeless Land.

For me, High Desert Architecture in the American Southwest draws on three currents in
Architecture: on today’s current sustainable architectural modernity, on the totality of our
Southwestern environment and all its inherent qualities, ranging from its geology to its ecology,
its cultural history and imagery: 1,200 year old desert pueblos and cliff dwellings made of
sandstone, Spanish Pueblo adobe-stucco influences, current Southwestern architecture’s many
passive solar architectural features, and on that aspect of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Organic
Architecture that focuses on the totality of how we live within our built environment and its
surrounding natural world.