The Desert-Modern Trap: What Arizona Architects Keep Getting Wrong

Reed spent 22 years designing high-end residential properties in Paradise Valley and North Scottsdale. He left the practice after a dispute with a client he does not particularly want to discuss. He writes about homes the way a structural engineer reads a bridge: what is this thing trying to do, and does it succeed? He cannot describe a room without telling you what the architect was thinking and whether they pulled it off. Most of the time, in his view, they did not quite.