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Community Built Brick by Brick

With only three walls and no roof, some might mistake the Pecos Mission Church for a ruin. But the three hundred year old adobe structure is alive with ...
Buckeye, AZ – One of Arizona's only adobe companies is preparing to start mass-producing the earthen bricks after having moved to Buckeye. Greg Hartman and Casey Fromm, owners of FHP Builders, bought ...
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 ...
Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Kathy Gurlandspread and patted and slapped mud Saturday, her silver rings caked in the cool earth. “Oh my god, a ...
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Students and staff at Fresno State are dedicating hours of patience and labor to making adobe bricks alongside an expert in the craft. For the past several days, Sando Canovas ...
CHIMAYO, N.M. (KRQE) – Volunteers from northern New Mexico are working with mud to help with an upcoming restoration project in Chimayó. The project is being led by Cornerstones Community Partnerships ...
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 ...
With the arrival of the Spanish colonists, Santa Barbara came to be built with the oldest-known construction material: mud. Santa Barbara’s oldest buildings were made from adobe brick, the word “adobe ...
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 ...
Architectural practice Chiangmai Life Architects has completed a striking villa that blends elements of traditional Thai architecture together with environmentally savvy construction practices and ...