[digital] + [authentic material craftsmanship]
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Desert Digismith is Roshelle Stahl's architecture, interiors, and consulting practice, founded in Tucson in 2019 and collaborating on projects throughout the Southwest and beyond.
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The practice provides flexible project support to architects, interior designers, developers, and organizations, particularly when they need an experienced project architect without making a full-time hire. Services include:
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Project architecture and technical coordination
Construction documents and permitting
Code research and plan-check responses
Consultant coordination
QA/QC reviews
Project management and owner’s-representative support
Interior architecture and select architectural design
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Roshelle is a licensed architect in both Arizona and California, NCIDQ-certified, and has roughly 14 years of experience across healthcare, K–12, retail, commercial interiors, adaptive reuse, residential, and other project types. She also brings hands-on construction experience from acting as architect and owner-builder for Casa Limón, her historic adobe property in Tucson.
What makes Desert Digismith distinctive is the combination of technical rigor and practical adaptability. Whether serving as architect, consultant, or project partner, Desert Digismith brings together design thinking, technical expertise, and practical implementation to help move projects from early ideas through construction. Rooted in Tucson's regional building culture, it collaborates on projects throughout the Southwest and beyond.
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Roshelle is a licensed architect in Arizona and California
as well as an NCIDQ-certified interior designer.
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Roshelle Stahl and Marlon Brando "The Dogfather" at Parker Canyon Lake, AZ
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History:
Roshelle Stahl founded Desert Digismith in July 2019 after returning from the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile pilgrimage across northern Spain.
The experience reinforced her interest in architecture shaped by local materials, skilled craftsmanship, and a strong sense of place. Upon returning to Tucson, Roshelle found those same qualities reflected in the region’s adobe construction, historic neighborhoods, desert-responsive design, and community of local makers and tradespeople.
DWELLING | within and beyond the desert
Desert Digismith was established as an architecture, interiors, and design practice rooted in Tucson while serving clients and project teams across a broader geographic area. Today, it supports clients and project teams through consulting, design, documentation, project coordination, and owner-side support across the Southwest and beyond.
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Philosophy:
“... architecture is the only profession capable of equal concern for world hunger and door closers.”
— Leonard Bachman
— Leonard Bachman
"Truly successful architecture decentralizes resources and finds efficiency through the overlapping elements of complex systems. It creates a sustainable framework that begins at a macro level, recognizing that people are creatures of convenience, while inspiring individual responsibility and a sense of belonging" — desert digismith
Harnessing the potential of technology while seeking to preserve the craft of the vernacular.