Long before modern materials, people had to build homes using the items around them. Long before modern materials, people had to build homes and structures using the items around them. Brush and ...

Earth, juniper bark, and water are the ingredients used to make adobe bricks and mud mortar for building this Primitive hut. The wall is getting higher, and the location for the fireplace is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Disneyland: That’s what some locals occasionally have called Santa Fe’s tourism-heavy downtown. Yet unknowing visitors might be forgiven if they think that many of the buildings in our ...