With the arrival of the Spanish colonists, Santa Barbara came to be built with the oldest-known construction material: mud. Santa Barbara’s oldest buildings were made from adobe brick, the word “adobe ...

This guide on how to make adobe bricks to build a home includes mixing the soil, building window and door frames, building a roof and ceiling, and painting adobe. Once again, we’re pleased to roll the ...

Buckeye, AZ – One of Arizona's only adobe companies is preparing to start mass-producing the earthen bricks after having moved to Buckeye. Greg Hartman and Casey Fromm, owners of FHP Builders, bought ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

California’s mudbrick adobe architecture has two vulnerabilities: water and earthquakes. For these reasons, adobe architecture is as much emblematic of the state’s dual Hispanic/Indigenous heritages, ...

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 ...

One of Fresno’s most unique and architecturally significant buildings stands forlornly in the middle of a construction site set back from Shaw Avenue, west of Highway 99. Parked nearby, almost ...