As blazes burn our homes, a smattering of mud evangelists are resurfacing the ancient, fireproof building style as a solution for the future. It looked like a bucket brigade in the desert: a line of ...

Adobe as a building material has been used in New Mexico since long before the beginning of recorded history. By definition, it is a natural building material made of mud, reinforced with straw or ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Dirt, sand and a little bit of straw. Add some water, pack the mixture into bricks and let them bake under the ...

California’s mudbrick adobe architecture has two vulnerabilities: water and earthquakes. For these reasons, adobe architecture is as much emblematic of the state’s dual Hispanic/Indigenous heritages, ...

It's a hot, windy spring day in rural Marana, with dust devils swirling on the horizon, and Eric Johnson has decided that it's too gusty for his crew at Clay Mine Adobe to make bricks. But the next ...

Beneath the arms of aged trees outside of the Gutiérrez-Hubbell House in Albuquerque’s South Valley on Tuesday, men and women in broad-brimmed hats knelt and pressed a clay, sand and straw mixture ...

Clarification: Connie Weir’s recollection about the start of the Weir business differs from that of Cynthia Berryman, daughter of Ted Berryman. According to the Berryman family history, the original ...

Astral Tequila has announced that the construction of 10 homes for families in Jalisco, Mexico is underway through trusted partners with the brand's ongoing sustainability program, The Adobe Brick ...

Peter and Raydene St. Clair had no intention of moving from their modern Spanish-style Mission Hills home. In early 2020, they were helping their daughter and son-in-law, who were expecting their ...

One of Fresno’s most unique and architecturally significant buildings stands forlornly in the middle of a construction site set back from Shaw Avenue, west of Highway 99. Parked nearby, almost ...