Sep. 19—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 ...

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 ...

An adobe house may evoke images of the Southwest, serapes, and the twangy keening of an Ennio Morricone soundtrack for many Americans. But there’s more to it than just this picture. In fact, the ...

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 ...

The house of an adobero is identifiable by the quantity and type of stuff in the yard. Those who work with adobe are natural scroungers and re-users: a heap of leftover mud bricks from someone’s ...

Adobe buildings are living structures. The adobe keeps strength by wicking moisture from the ground. Cut off from water, they crumble to dust. Too much water, and they melt. Sun-dried adobe bricks are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rudy Martínez describes adobe as "gold dust." The former landscaper, construction worker, miner and welder saw a future in adobe, and he learned how to restore it ...