Arizona Architecture from the Archives

Beadle used his characteristic modular grid design for this office building at 777 East Camelback Road in Phoenix. He designed the building in 1966 while he was employed by Dailey Associates Planning/Architecture.

The Mountain Bell Administration Center on 3rd Street in Phoenix was an excellent example of the International Style, featuring a rectilinear form and glass exterior. Completed in 1971, the building was demolished in 2009.

Drake was a leading architect during the decades of rapid post-war residential housing growth in the Phoenix area. Typical of his designs of the 1950s is the Allison House in Paradise Valley, designed in 1955.

For his 1951 design of the Connor Residence in Paradise Valley, Drake incorporated elements of the textile block construction system that he used for the the Glass Residence and Office, though on a smaller scale.

Known for bringing the same level of design consideration to commercial projects as he did to residential designs, Osmon felt that the Southwestern theme prevalent in Cave Creek architecture was appropriate for the Saguaro Hill Lanes. An advocate of desert preservation, Osmon noted that for this project “A positive legacy may be seen in the beautiful hills of saguaros that I convinced the owner to save.”

Quotation from Toward an Architecture Without Permanent Form?: The Projects and Ideas of Fred Linn Osmon, Architect.

Harold Housley
Archivist, Design and the Arts Special Collections

Harold.Housley@asu.edu 
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