Saguaro Land is a series from The Show looking at the Sonoran Desert — the lushest, hottest desert in the world that happens to be our home.
Brian Farling is one of the principals at Jones Studio, an architecture firm in Tempe that's made a name for itself as the place to go for modern, sustainable design inspired by the Sonoran Desert.
The studio was founded in 1979 by Eddie Jones. He followed Frank Lloyd Wright and Paolo Soleri to the desert in search of the Sonoran landscape they prized. He was joined by his brother Niel a few years later and they grew from there.
Farling joined them straight out of school in 1998. A kid who grew up in Pennsylvania, he’d visited a cousin at the University of Arizona and fell in love with the desert.
More Saguaro Land stories from KJZZ
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The Show's Amy Silverman reflects on the Saguaro Land series, and the plight of the iconic Sonoran Desert cactus that is its namesake. -
The Show is exploring the desert season by season in the series Saguaro Land — through music, art, literature, food, drink, flora and fauna — and now through design. -
Journalist Caroline Tracey has watched as Instagram and other platforms have turned a spotlight on the desert in ways she finds both refreshing — and troubling. She spoke to The Show more about the trend and what it means. -
In The Show's newest installment of Saguaro Land, we learned about using the desert to make music from Kyle Bert, who has been turning agave stalk into didgeridoos for 25 years. -
Tempe artist Safwat Saleem used baking as a metaphor for describing how he and his young daughter are learning to thrive in the Sonoran Desert.
