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 ...

Subtitled Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture, the book traces a largely forgotten yet freshly relevant period of experimentation with passive-solar design and adobe structures in the American ...

The adobe architecture of the southwest is fascinating not just because of how it looks aesthetically. It looks the way it looks because it was built that way out of necessity.

Simone Swan and her students at the Adobe Alliance are building with earth in the southwestern United States using adobe mud and traditional North African construction techniques. Originally ...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — It is the paradox of adobe that it serves both as the fashionable choice of shelter for the rich in the American Southwest and as the promise for housing the poor in the Th… ...

It is the odd paradox of adobe that it serves at once as the fashionable choice of shelter for the rich in the American Southwest and as the promise for housing the poor in the Third World. Common ...

“Adobe architecture is so commonly found throughout New Mexico and other parts of the Southwest, and it is really a tremendous form of craftsmanship.

Architects across the South West and Wessex have nailed it, with 13 projects making the shortlist for the prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) South West & Wessex Awards 2025. From ...

Architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its design for a mud-brick museum named Asaan in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, which will be the studio's first adobe building. Construction ...