Rick Joy is an architect from Tucson, AZ and if you look at the way his structures show and the settling around it you can see his Arizona upbringing. To me, his buildings fit the desert scene perfectly especially the one pictured above. The dullness of the building itself fits in the nature setting that is in, and is not meant to take away from the nature around it, instead it complement the surrounding scene. I believe that is what Joy does pretty well in his work.