Pre-Columbian Native American architecture of the Southwest U.S., specifically that of the so-called "Anasazi People", has always fascinated me. When my architecture practice brought me to work in New Mexico in 1990, I was amazed to find the extent of the presence of this native architecture in the high desert landscape. Ceramics, lithics, and mounds of collapsed village and compound walls can be seen on terraces wherever there is nearby flowing water and bottom land. While most visible traces of pre-historic native architecture have been destroyed in the rest of the U.S. , due primarily to Eurocentric agricultural practices and urbanization, the American Southwest still displays an extraordinarily large number of sites, many of which have yet to be studied in depth by archaeologists.