The title of this photo postcard reads, “Mexican adobe home with bake ovens in front”. Date unknown. Possibly New Mexico.
Coo-ee Heritage Centre
The $1.2 million Coo-ee Heritage Centre officially opened in March last year. “It is a very unique architectural design and the walls and floors of the gallery are made of rammed earth,” Coo-ee Heritage Centre manager Libby Kermond Carr said.
Earth Building Article
Earth Building Takes New Shapes, an article from the Home Energy Magazine Online May/June 1999, describes the current technologies and benefits of earth building.
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Mud Brick Workshop
If you are in Austrailia, a 2-day mud brick building workshop, instructed by Peter Hickson, a specialist mud brick builder with 20 years experience is coming up in May 2003. Click here for more information.
Ehrenberg
Photo of Ehrenberg, Arizona, once the largest town in Yuma County and chief distributing port for Arizona on the Colorado River, circa 1908
Santa Clara Pueblo
Santa Clara Pueblo, Rio Arriba County NM circa 1920.
Historic Tiajuana
Old Adobe Chapel in Tia Juana, Mexico. Circa 1908.
Desert Works
Rick Joy: Desert Works contains masterfully modern designs in rammed earth by this Tucson, Arizona based architect. Joy uses color, texture, and materials to turn the six houses shown here into spare and subtle evidence of humanity in a vast natural world. He uses a similar approach, with expanded functionality, in the three studio/office designs that complete this book. The quiet of the settings and the simplicity of Joy’s approach are perfect partners in producing architecture appropriate to a vast, unpeopled place.
CRATerre
CRATerre-EAG, The Center for the Research and Application of Earth Architecture, is part of the School of Architecture of Grenoble, France, which offers the only Masters Degree in Earth Architecture in the world. The website is only in French, but you can translate at babelfish.