Al Beadle

Alfred N. Beadle V (1927 – 1998) was an American modernistic architect active in Phoenix, Arizona. During his lifetime Beadle was best known for designing Case Study Apartment #1, a three-unit apartment development in Phoenix, AZ, which was part of the Case Study House program of Arts & Architecture magazine. More recently Beadle has been rediscovered for his stylish mid-century residential housing stock and for his influence on desert modernism. All of Beadle's output reflects a rigorous, rectilinear modernist idiom consistent with the work of Mies van der Rohe and the postwar steel-frame houses typified by the Case Study experiments. Trained in construction during World War II as a Seabee, Beadle moved to Phoenix in the early 1950s...