During Spain’s nearly three hundred year reign over the American Southwest, she engrafted her language, laws, customs and culture on the region, including traditional architectural styles suited to the temperament of the desert.

The featured architectural view is one of many Dad captured during his trips to Spain as homage to the Old Country prototypes that lay all around him at home. He had a historic appreciation for the stone-tiled roof and high domed style that remains the most dominant motif throughout the southwestern areas once under Spanish control.
- Michael Goldwater