| Who are the designers and architects that shape our built landscape? How do you hire an architect? What is an architect’s responsibility to their client, and to the public? What do architects dream, and how do those dreams get brought down to earth? In order to answer these questions—and to make transparent the way architects work together and how an idea moves from a sketch to a finished building—the entire Jones Studio staff is moving into SMoCA’s galleries. The displaced office will host client and builder meetings; post working drawings for current projects; brainstorm design ideas for future projects; hold student critiques; and entertain questions from the visiting audience about issues at the heart of current architectural practice.
Studio Principal Eddie Jones is interested in creating “architecture to raise the human spirit.” Over the past twenty-five years, the staff of Jones Studio, Inc., has created dozens of elegant modernist buildings that address client needs while giving them unexpected experiences through common materials, uncommon sculptural forms and luminous spaces.
Founded in 1979 by Oklahoma-native Eddie Jones, who was joined by his brother Neal (an architect and the office business manager) in 1987, Jones Studio, Inc. projects range from single family residences created on a tight budget, such as the 1979 Tathum house in central Phoenix, to high traffic buildings with complex programmatic needs, such as Arizona State University’s Lattie Coor building, 2003. These projects reflect the Studio’s ethos: to create humane buildings that enliven the individual and the polity through a dynamic process of creation.
southwestNET: Jones Studio, Inc., is part of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s on-going programming that explores issues in contemporary architecture and design. By exposing themselves to the gallery-going public, the architects and designers of the studio hope to challenge the way in which we understand the traditional architectural show; make transparent how design happens; the influence of climate, client demand, monetary restrictions and team in-put on the form a building takes; and allow public discussion of works-in-progress.
Organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Sponsored locally by the SMoCA Salon. |
Bill Timmerman, Jones Studio, Inc., Phoenix, 2006
©Bill Timmerman
May 27, 2006-
September 24, 2006
Michael and Ellie Ziegler Gallery, SMoCA |
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