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Desert Architecture is a design approach tailored for arid environments, emphasizing climate-responsive design, resource efficiency, and integration with the natural surroundings. It incorporates passive cooling and heating strategies, water conservation techniques, and energy-efficient technologies while drawing on local materials and cultural influences. The aim is to create comfortable, sustainable living spaces that harmonize with desert landscapes’ unique challenges and conditions.
Ziggurats were grand architectural structures that were built in ancient Mesopotamia and western Iran. These towering structures were made up of terraced levels that receded successively and were primarily constructed…
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Completed in 2012, Tom Ford’s Ranch, designed by Japanese Architect Tadao Ando has a serene Japanese aesthetic that blends surprisingly well with the 24,000-acre ranch arid terrain of Santa Fe,…
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The Abiquiu home and studio is a 5,000 square foot (460 m2) Spanish Colonial-era compound that was utterly ruined when Miss O’Keeffe found it. She bought the property in 1945…
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The Saint Theresa Catholic Church, completed in 1968 by American architect William F. Cody is considered one of the architect’s masterworks. Cody was an enthusiastic parishioner of the church and…
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In 2009 Marwan Al-Sayed, Wendell Burnette and Rick Joy completed the Amangiri resort located in the USA’s Grand Circle region. The resort overlooks the beautiful desert scenery and the Southwest’s…
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Aït Benhaddou is a historic ighrem or ksar (fortified village) along the former caravan route between the Sahara and Marrakech in present-day Morocco. It is considered a great example of Moroccan earthen clay architecture and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987. While…
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In 1990, Antoine Predock completed the Nelson Fine Arts Center on the ASU’s Tempe campus. The complex houses the ASU Art Museum, the Galvin Playhouse as well as dance classroom…
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Taliesin West, a masterpiece designed by the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, served as his winter residence and educational facility in the heart of the Arizona desert from 1937 until…
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In 1949, the Southwest Christian Seminary in Phoenix commissioned the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who was 82 years old at the time, to design a classical university encompassing various…
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Pyramid Rock is a private residence designed by Matt Goodman in 2015, Australia, that “encourages the occupants to venture outside and experience the landscape.”
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The new WADI RUM Desert Resort designed by the Florida-based firm Oppenheim Architecture takes advantage of the natural landscape in order to appreciate the surrounding landscape. Residences, rooms and hotel…
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The new Spa & Resort hotel designed by Oppenheim Architecture creates a simple and clear topographic transition from the desert to the sea-inspired in vernacular traditions.
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