James W. Scalise is a practicing Architect with a professional studio located in Scottsdale, AZ known as The JWSA Studio. In addition to being dedicated to a highly personal client integration approach to the practice of architecture, his design and practice expertise incorporates a wide variety of architecturally related design disciplines, including 2D & 3D architectural design & illustrations incorporating interior design and space planning, graphics design and corporate identification logos & branding, landscape design, and site planning.

Mr. Scalise's professional education includes a professional Bachelor's Degree in Architecture from Arizona State University (1967), and a Master's Degree in Architecture from The University of California - Berkeley (1968).

He has held an architectural design teaching assistant position at the University if California - Berkeley (1968) and subsequent full time faculty positions in Architecture at a number of Architectural Schools and Universities in the United States including The University of Kansas (Assistant Professor 1969-1970), Arizona State University (Associate Professor 1970-1984), The University of Nevada at Las Vegas (Distinguished Visiting Professor 1992-1994), and the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture at Taliesin in Scottsdale, AZ (Associate Professor 2002-2004).  Along with his professorial teaching responsibilities, he has held dual administrative positions as an Assistant Dean of the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and as an Associate Dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.

With his primary architectural registration in Arizona (1973), plus achieving the National Certification of Architectural Registration Boards (1983), and subsequent architectural registrations in the states of New Mexico (1983), Nevada (1993), and in Colorado (1998), James W. Scalise, through The JWSA Studio, engages in the practice of architecture that is dedicated to specific site appropriate and environmentally responsible solutions to living and working in built habitats and natural environs that are mutually suited to each other.