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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

El Real Presidio de Santa Bárbara rendering set in the 1790s. (Russell Ruiz illustration) [Noozhawk’s note: First in a series.] I could have never guessed as I began my career as a historian that it ...