Mark Candelaria Homes: Designs for Inspired Living

Gorgeous photographs and floor plans provide a rare peek into 12 ultra-high-end homes by Scottsdale, Arizona, architect Mark Candelaria 

Arizona-based architect Mark Candelaria is recognized for his timeless luxury designs and signature style rooted in classical form and functionality. In Mark Candelaria Homes, the architect presents 12 pivotal residential projects from the past decade and pulls back the curtain to share the stories behind them.

Each project is accompanied by full-color photographs, floor plans, and sketches. The book brims with design ideas for every taste, from a Spanish colonial-influenced house on axis with views of Arizona's Mummy Mountain, to a reimagined historic English Tudor, to a modernist home inspired by ranch haciendas. Candelaria describes the design process with many personal anecdotes, illustrating that the design of a home should be fun and result not just in a set of plans but a backdrop to living one's best life.

Being an avid traveler and hobbyist chef, Candelaria includes a recipe with each house that was many times prepared for, or with, the client in their new kitchen as a grand finale.

Architect Mark Candelaria has designed homes of all styles across the world in his 40-year career. Mark was the architect of the HGTV 2017 Smart Home and the first 3-D-printed, fully livable home in the US. An avid traveler and chef, he lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.

David M. Brown, during his four decades as a journalist, has interviewed legends including Jay Leno, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Alice Cooper, Lynn Redgrave, and many others. He especially enjoys writing about the architects, artists, and community leaders who are his Arizona neighbors.