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Jones Studio Residential Matching Game
Inside Out: Match interior images with their exterior architecture
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Jones Studio’s residential work spans desert modernism in the Sonoran Desert, high-desert and mountain environments in the American West, and sites far beyond Arizona. Each project takes shape from the particular character of its land, its owner, and its moment in time. Which is exactly what makes this game interesting.
Thank you for playing along with the matching game created by Eddie Jones, FAIA, featured in our 2026 Q1 e-newsletter and the 31st edition of Arizona Residential Architects (ARA). The premise is simple: can you match the exterior of the home to its interior? It’s a fun way tolook more carefully at the relationship between a building’s outward presence and its interior life, and to get acquainted with a few of our favorite projects along the way.
If you arrived here via another route, Welcome! You can still play. We challenged newsletter and ARA readers to pair exterior photographs with their corresponding interior views. Take your best guess at the full spread below, then use the sliders to reveal the answers.
Photo 1 ⇒ Photo D: Prairie Raptor Residence – Oklahoma
Shingles lapping like feathers, black brick shimmering blue in the sun, the whole form settling into a clearing as if it landed there. The Prairie Raptor Residence is built of its place, in conversation with the land and with a lineage of daring architecture. To learn more about the Prairie Raptor Residence, please view the project page.
Photo 2 ⇒ Photo C: Starwood Residence – Montana
Architecture this resolved doesn’t happen by accident. It’s the result of an owner, builder, craftspeople, and architect who move in rare alignment to create something beyond what is expected. To learn more about the Starwood Residence, please view the project page.
Photo 3 ⇒ Photo B: Logan Residence – Arizona
At the foothills of Pinnacle Peak, the Logan Residence dissolves the boundary between living and collecting. Each gallery bathed in diffused light, stitched into the hillside, framing the rhythms of daily life around a private art collection. To learn more about the Logan Residence, please view the project page.
Photo 4 ⇒ Photo A: Singing Sands Basha Cottage – Oregon
Singing Sands reinterprets what a cottage can be: intimate in feeling, sophisticated in craft, and completely of its place on the Pacific coast. Designed for the Basha family, it is a home that prioritizes coziness and connection. To learn more about the Singing Sands Basha Cottage, please view the project page.
How did you do? Whether you matched them all or missed a few, we hope the exercise offered a new way of seeing these homes.
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