STYLE GUIDE
The style of your home can guide the landscape design.
Here are the architectural styles most commonly found in southern Arizona.
Here are the architectural styles most commonly found in southern Arizona.
Architectural Characteristics
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Landscape Design Guidelines
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Architectural Characteristics
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Landscape Design Guidelines
The ground plane is very important with this style. These homes usually look best framed with smaller trees because large trees can overpower the low-slung architectural style. Ground contouring and berms can add visual interest. Strong sculptural plantings are commonly called for. |
Architectural Characteristics
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Landscape Design Guidelines
Emphasis is on color and pattern with tile, brick and other natural materials in the hardscape, and colorful or sculptural plant materials, along with traditional scroll ironwork in fencing and gates. |
Architectural Characteristics
Many Joesler homes have colored concrete floors, exposed wood lintels and ceilings, carved corbels, colorful tile and iron accents. Usually one story, with stucco exteriors, and tile roofs. Some details similar to Santa Fe or Mexican Colonial, although Joesler also borrowed from California Mission trends to include arched doorways and gateways. |
Landscape Design Guidelines
Typical landscape design for a Joesler home is similar to Mexican colonial, but typically with less emphasis on bright or bold colors. Symmetry and balance in the design of landscape spaces and plantings is a very important feature. |
TerritorialBuilt from the 1840s —1900s
Examples of this truly southern Arizona vernacular style can be seen in the downtown barrio neighborhoods.
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Territorial RevivalBuilt from the 1930s—1950s
Most commonly found in older foothills neighborhoods and on the far eastside, especially in the Tanque Verde Valley.
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Architectural Characteristics
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Landscape Design Guidelines
This architectural style is comfortable with a variety of design approaches, from naturalistic minimalism to a semi-formal geometry. Plant choice customarily favors water-wise, low-care, desert-adapted natives. Porches are frequently shaded by larger-canopy indigenous trees such as mesquite. Stone walkways are common. |
Architectural Characteristics
Classic architecture style adapted from Santa Fe, New Mexico. One story with flat parapet roof. Stucco over adobe or other block. Rounded, thick walls and archways, exposed ceiling and roof beams, heavy wood lintels and carved corbels, concrete or clay tile floors and colorful tile accents, cozy rustic feel. |
Landscape Design Guidelines
Often color is a feature emphasized in the hardscape design. Fountains and/or outdoor fireplaces are commonly included. Detailed, naturalistic planting arrangements focus on texture and changing seasonal color throughout the year. You also see the use of low, curved adobe walls and arched wooden gates. |
Architectural Characteristics
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Landscape Design Guidelines
Known for a signature blend of naturalism and formal geometric elements that is in strong harmony with the house. Garden design often includes outdoor ‘rooms’, stone pathways, pergolas draped with climbing roses and vines, low stone walls, simple flower bed borders or evergreen hedge borders, fruit trees, and a water feature such as a small pond. |
Architectural Characteristics
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Landscape Design Guidelines
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Architectural Characteristics
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Landscape Design Guidelines
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