Beadle / Arizona Architecture

Triad Apartments by Al Beadle (1963).
CSA #1 is the only Arts & Architecture Case Study program project built in Arizona.

It consists of three 840 square feet units. The project was planned to be a total of 80 units. That didn't happen.

Triad Apartments in 1963
Source: Gerald Duchscherer. Courtesy ASU Special Collections via Meet the Beadles by Peter J. Wolf, Modernism Magazine

They should think about putting that bench back in. The Tackett AP too.

Source: Case Study Houses

It looks like they smuggled some VKG across the CA/AZ border.
Source: Case Study Houses

Triad Apartments rendering
Source: Case Study Houses

Three Fountains by Al Beadle (1963)

This project has 59 units

Is it just me or is Beadle the Killingsworth of the desert?

A Beadle deserves better than this knock off Soleri bell. Cosanti is only a half hour away!
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I went here again. Beadle Residence 6 / White Gates (1958)![]() |

Uhlmann Residence, which is next to White Gates.

The house was built for the owners of the Safari Hotel


Wosco /12th Street Office Building (1985)
Beadle was still good in the 80s.

Interior courtyard at Wosco
