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Strive Jones Studio Adventures in Architecture

Acknowledgements, Introduction and Text by Marilu Knode
Foreword by Marlon Blackwell
Edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda

STRIVE explores Jones Studio’s four decades of work bringing inventive design to our built environment. The firm samples from ancient global architecture and the pragmatics of the American School—from the realities of today’s climate change to nature’s healing truths—to create a unique modernism of place. Nature is a primary partner and collaborator in Jones Studio’s work. Firm founder Eddie Jones, brother Neal Jones, and partners Brian Farling and Jacob Benyi express the preciousness of water and light in the Sonoran Desert and beyond. Water performs, literally and figuratively, across Jones Studio’s projects, bringing interior and exterior “desert gardens” to life.

Jones Studio attributes their success to the “Family Table”, a shared space that facilitates high levels of collaboration and fearless invention, and a persistent forward momentum fueled by risk-taking, to solve the problems of different building typologies. Essays on 30+ built and unbuilt projects, public art projects, and exhibitions trace Jones Studio’s solutions to how we might re-shape our cultural landscape in an environmentally challenged world.

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Jones Studio Houses Sensual Modernism

Introduction by Aaron Betsky
Interviewed by Vladimir Belogolovsky
Epilogue by Eddie Jones

“JONES STUDIO HOUSES Sensual Modernism” is a self-imposed limited look at the 40-year-plus career of Eddie Jones. Almost unheard of outside the southwest United States, Jones has quietly accumulated a body of work beyond residential design to include major federal projects impacting the edges of America.

Supported by Aaron Betsky’s insightful forward, an enlightening interview with Vladimir Belogolovsky, and comments from many of his famous colleagues, Jones summarizes his lifelong dance with architecture through the personal stories embedded in each house. Refusing to repeat himself, the work tests the reality of gravity on a diverse spectrum of interpretive vernacular responses to climate, landscape, and function. Although designed by the same hand, the forms vary as much as the choice of materials. Rammed earth, concrete, wood, and metal are explored together and separately yet remain subordinate to Jones’ fascination with glass.

Utilizing photographs, hand drawings, and first-person accounts, the motivations and joy of being an architect are expressed by an exceptional whole informed by many ordinary parts.

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