The making of architecture is a sensible technical and aesthetic activity that serves the needs of human shelter.The construction of shelter is an imaginative cultural research that enables dwelling as a fundamental human aspiration and means to a graceful life.This pursuit must be inflected by place, the geography of Arizona, and the culture of the Southwest.The design for place must be influenced by a portable global sensibility, yet observant of local traditions, tempered by material circumstances, and expressive of the ethos of time and place.