Jones Studio

Please join us in officially congratulating our newest LICENSED ARCHITECT, Xander Jacobs, AIA! We’re so proud of you and grateful to have you as part of the Jones Studio family 👏👏👏

Back to school is right around the corner, and we’ve been revisiting one of our favorite campus transformations: the University of Jamestown’s Voorhees Chapel and Center for Faith and Life.

Built in 1918 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the chapel’s original stained glass and timber trusses now connect to a new 8,246-square-foot addition built for how students use campus today — a café, terraced gathering spaces, study rooms, and daylight everywhere you look.

Photography by Matt Winquist - swipe through for a look inside and visit our website for more on this campus project and many others.

Part of the magic woven into Jones Studio’s DNA is a drive to create lasting change for the betterment of our communities. That’s why we’re proud to see Shawn Swisher, AIA, LEED AP take that spirit beyond our studio and onto the civic stage. On Tuesday, August 4, AIA Arizona hosts a panel of local architects serving in civic roles across the Valley, talking planning, policy, and advocacy. All are welcome - register on the aia-arizona.org website.

Our quarterly e-newsletter is out, with news from across the studio including Senior Associate Shawn Swisher, AIA, LEED AP, receiving the 2026 National AIA Young Architect Award, project milestones, and more.

If it didn’t land in your inbox, you can sign up at the bottom of our website with just your name and email (link in bio)

Fresh off the press! Jones Studio is featured in Arizona Residential Architects (ARA31), spotlighting a handful of Eddie’s residential work. From a copper-roofed retreat tucked into the pines to a desert home settled right into the saguaros, each project finds its own quiet conversation with the landscape.

There’s also a fun matching game in this issue: can you pair each interior with its exterior? Head to the ‘Dwelling’ section of our website to take your best guess & see how well you know Jones Studio architecture.

Please help us welcome our new summer intern, Jay Natarajan! Jay brings a perspective shaped by world travels and a clear conviction about where the profession is headed.

Earlier this year, Jay was part of a student research team that received the Design Excellence Award for a modular fourplex ADU concept in Tucson — a design centered on solar energy collection and hydronic radiant heating and cooling systems to reduce long-term energy costs. The project was built around a question Tucson is actively asking itself: now that zoning allows multi-family housing on single-family lots, how do architects think differently about density, affordability, and sustainability?

We’re so glad you’re here!

Leftover artwork? Yes, please!

An unused piece of Maria Salenger’s sculptural metalwork found a second life here at the Studio. Rob Huff transformed the remaining panels into hand-crafted enclosures for our EV charging stations in the garden. Functional, beautiful, and a little unexpected. Exactly how we like it!

Light completes what steel begins. Wholeness, a public art installation by Maria Salenger at Scottsdale Fire Station #612, traces the native plants of the McDowell Mountain Preserve in laser-cut steel. As sunlight moves, shadows shift across the patio below. At certain moments, the full Maltese Cross appears: the emblem of firefighter sacrifice and courage, assembled in light.

The piece was born from conversations with Scottsdale firefighters: their lives, their two families, their home here.

We’re excited to share new photography that tells the full story of this work - live on our website jonesstudioinc.com/project/scottsdale-fire-station

Sheets of raw steel laid face-down on Montana grass, left to rust before becoming walls. That’s the Starwood Residence. Explore the full project under the Dwelling section of our website: jonesstudioinc.com