| Description |
237 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
African connection -- New World -- Weather -- Adobe making -- The Picuris story -- Plastering -- Horno building -- Details -- The Pueblo -- Worship -- Pitched roofs & logs -- Artists & adobe -- The adobe home -- Solar adobe |
| Summary |
Adobe describes the wide variety of earthen architecture: the stark grandeur of the Taos pueblo; light-filled artists' studios; the typical hacienda with its living spaces surrounding a sunlit courtyard; and new houses designed to maintain a tradition yet providing abundant comfort and pleasure |
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The use of earth as a building material is as old as civilization. For the twentieth-century American, the process is most familiar in the sun-dried brick called adobe and the architectural style characteristic of the desert Southwest and the mission buildings of California. Here, in more than two hundred pictures and a lucid, informed text, is the story of building and living with earth - from North and West Africa to the Iberian Peninsula, from the centuries-old Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe to the modern homes of the wealthy in the hills near Taos. Essential to the story of adobe is the experience of construction itself, which is a communal act - families and friends engaged in the making of bricks and the raising of walls and rafters (called vigas), and the unique skill of applying the protective and beautifying plaster, a task often left to the talented women known as enjaradoras |
| Analysis |
Building, Adobe |
| Notes |
"A David Larkin book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Adobe houses -- Design and construction.
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Building, Adobe.
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Earth houses.
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| Author |
Larkin, David, 1936-
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| LC no. |
94011692 |
| ISBN |
0395566932 |
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