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May 12, 2004

ADOBE 2004 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

The Second Annual Adobe Conference held in El Rito, NM May 21, 22, 23, announces the conference schedule:

Registration, Dorm and Meal Tickets 11:00AM to 1:30PM, Friday, May 21, 2004

Session I, Friday 1:30 to 4:30 PM
1:30 to 2:00 John Morony
2:00 to 2:30 Luis Fernando Guerrero B. and Francisco Uvina C.
2:30 to 3:00 Simone Swan
3:00 to 3:30 Quentin Wilson
3:30 to 4:00 Dean Sherwin
4:00 to 4:30 Reid Hayashi and Kristina Orchard-Hayes
Cafeteria Open Friday, 5:00 to 6:00PM
Adobe Association Meeting: Election of Board Members 6:30 to 7:00PM
Social Hour, Friday, 7:00 to 9:00PM
Steve Burroughs and Quentin Wilson videos/slides will run in the background.

Cafeteria Open for Breakfast Saturday, 7:30 to 8:30AM
Session II, Saturday, 9:30AM to 12:00M
9:30 to 10:00 Anita Otilia Rodriguez
10:00 to 10:30 Mohamoud Ahmed Eissa
10:30 to 11:00 Pat Frazier
11:00 to 11:30 Richard Burt and Charles Graham
11:30 to 12:00 Mel Medina
Cafeteria Open for Lunch Saturday, 12:00M to 1:00PM
Tour, Saturday, 1:30 to 5:00PM
1:30 to 2:30 Dar al Islam Mosque in Abiquiu
2:30 to 3:00 Abiquiu Plaza, Church and Morada
3:00 to 4:00 Pat Frazier Project
4:00 to 5:00 Mark Chalom Project, the Prisciantelli House
Cafeteria Open for Dinner Saturday, 5:00 to 6:00PM
Membership Meeting: Election of Board of Directors, Apprv Constitn, 6:30 to 7:00

Session III, Saturday, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
7:00 to 7:30 Mark Chalom
7:30 to 8:00 Barbara Narici
8:00 to 8:30 Susan Jerome
8:30 to 9:00 Adel Fahmy
Cafeteria Open for Breakfast Sunday, 7:30 to 8:30AM

Session IV, Sunday, 9:30AM to 12M
9:30 to 10:00 Steve Safken
10:00 to 10:30 Arnie Valdez
10:30 to 11:00 Mack Caldwell
11:00 to 11:30 Steve Burroughs
11:30 to 12:00 Jorge Calderon T.
Cafeteria Open for Lunch Sunday, 12:00M to 1:00PM
AASW Board of Directors Meeting, 1:30 to 2:30PM

May 11, 2004

LEHM 2004 Conference Program

Dachverband Lehm e.V. announces the LEHM 2004 conference program.

Friday, 29.10.2004 9 a.m.- 6 p.m.

Opening address:

Dr. Horst Schroeder, Chairman of the Dachverband Lehm e.V. (DVL)
Prof. Dr. Michael Petzet, President of ICOMOS International
Earthen building: A thousand years of building culture

• Christian Manhard, UNESCO, Cultural Division: The UNESCO and the conversation of historic earthen architecture in Iran and Afghanistan

• Azimeh Riahi Dekhordi, architect, Iranian Cultural Heritage Organisation (ICHO), Tehran, Iran: Traditional earthen architecture in Abianeh, Iran

• Hamid Reza Jayhani & Seyed Mohammad Ali Emrani, assistant director & technical director, ICHO, Tehran, Iran: From the spirit of adobe to the inner essence of earthern structures in the Persian architecture

• Natalia Turekulova & Timur Turekulov, architects, Kumbez Ltd, Almaty, Kazakhstan: 3000 year old cities along the Syr-Daria river, Republic of Kazakhstan

• Louise Cooke, archaeologist, Institute of Archaeology, University College, London, UK: Earthen building materials and techniques at Merv, Turkmenistan

• Dr. Ju Liang & Prof. Dr. Katsutada Onitsuka & Peihang Chen & Yuya Oryouji, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Saga University, Japan: Geotechnical investigations on earthen historical remains

• Roderich Seefried, DVL, Lebensraum, Wald-Rothenlachen, D: The Heuneburg an der Donau – the earliest use of adobe bricks north of the Alps

• Ronald Rael, architect, Clemson University, USA: A counter history of modern architecture

• Hossein S. M. Ayatollahi, School of Architecture, Yazd University, Iran: Testing “grounded theories” for measuring the qualitative characteristics of earthen architecture

• Dr. René Herdick, architect, Munich, D: Endangered traditional earthen architecture in Ladakh, India

• Anke Richter, DVL, building engineer, Weimar, D: Conservation of traditional earthen architecture in Southern Morocco

• Anna Paola Conti, architect, Macerata, I: Villa Ficana – an urban quarter in the town of Macerata, Italy

• Richard Rath, student, TU Berlin, D: Earthen building in the former Soviet occupied territories and the former DDR 1945 – 1989

Questions and discussion

Banquet

As part of the LEHM 2004 the Dachverband Lehm e.V. has organised a reception with banquet on the 29th October at the Moritzbastei, Leipzig University’s historic cultural centre in the city centre.

Saturday, 30.10.2004 9:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.

New earthen building technology in conservation practice and the new projects forum

• Alejandro Alva Balderrama & Cristina Albertini, ICCROM, Architecture and Archeaological Sites unit director & research assistant, Rome, I: ICCROM’s activities on the study and the conservation of earthen architecture

• Dr. Abdulhakiem Bazara, building engineer, Berlin, D and Aden, Yemen: The conservation of earthen buildings in Wadi Hadramaut, Yemen

• Anett Richter, restorer, Berlin, D: Securing earthen building elements in the pyramid complexes in Egypt

• Roberto Orazi & Francesca Colosi, architect & archaeologist, CNR-ITABC, Rome, I: New technologies for the conservation of the Archaeological Park of Chan Chan (Peru)

• Marina Reutova & Prof. Dr. Timur S. Shirinov, head of dept. & director, Institute of Archaeology, Samarkand, Uzbekistan: Adobe building materials in Central Asia – the conservation of archaeological earthen monuments

• Michael Thˆnnes, interior designer, Druwid, Waimes, Belgium: Renovation of historic half-timbered constructions in Belgium using earthen building materials

• Frank Hawemann, DVL, building engineer, Lehmprojekt, Dresden, D: Refurbishing system-built prefab housing using earthen materials

• Dr. Horst Schroeder, DVL, building engineer, Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar, D: New rammed-earth projects in Thuringia, Germany

• Dr. Christof Ziegert, DVL, building engineer, zrs Architekten & Ingenieure, Berlin, D: The conservation and building of monolithic earthen construction

• Dr. Kevan Heathcote & Gregory Moor, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia: The UTS durability test for earth wall construction. The seismic vulnerability of earthen building constructions

• Dr. Dinu Bumbaru, general secretary, ICOMOS International, Montreal, Canada: The earthquake catastrophe in Bam, Iran, December 2003 – future strategies for a destroyed city made of earth

• Dr. Abdolrasool Vatandoust, Director, Research Center for Conservation of Cultural Relics (RCCCR), Tehran, Iran: The citadel in Bam – an analysis of the earthquake damage from December 2003 and strategies for its reconstruction

• Dr. Jochen Schwarz, Christian Kaufmann, Tobias Langhammer, Bachrom A. Tulaganov, building engineers, Earthquake Institute, Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar, D & Dr. Shamil A. Chakimov, building engineer, UZLITTI Tashkent, Uzbekistan: The seismic vulnerability of traditional building constructions and an assessment of improvement strategies – case studies after the earthquakes in 2000 and 2001 in Kamashi, Republic of Uzbekistan

• Prof. Dr. Kabul S. Abdurashidov, Prof. Dr. Abdukabil Tulaganov, DVL, K. Pirmanov; TASI School of Architecture and Construction, Tashkent, Uzbekistan: An evaluation of the earthquake resistance of traditional earthen building constructions in Central Asia

Questions and discussion

Sunday, 31.10.2004 10 a.m.- 6 p.m.

Field trip I – Modern Building with Earth
Selected examples in and around Dresden

Field trip II – Historic Earthen Building in Saxony
Selected examples in and around Leipzig

May 5, 2004

Historic House May Be Moved

White’s cottage, built by Native Americans from the San Gabriel Mission in 1840 and known today as the Adobe House, is the oldest surviving structure in San Marino, California. Its mud-and-straw-packed walls have weathered the passage of nearly two centuries well enough, with scarcely a crack to be seen. What has changed is the view from the front porch. Modern suburbia has encroached on the house in such an unusual and drastic manner that city officials are considering moving the house to a different location altogether.

April 26, 2004

Adobe Walls Rise in Tijeras, New Mexico

For the first time in hundreds of years, real adobe walls began rising at Tijeras Pueblo. The walls will eventually enclose the Tijeras Pueblo Education Center, an authentic adobe building that will house a museum, labs, educational displays and other information and activities.

April 26, 2004

Survey Finds 200 Historic Adobe Homes in South Alpine

A report by an historic preservation consultant, due to be released this summer, will declare South Alpine to have the largest collection of historic adobe homes in Texas outside of El Paso.

April 24, 2004

Building A 25 Dome Warehouse

The photo above shows one of 25 domes used to construct a warehouse in Saveh, Iran (Markazi province, 130km south-west of Tehran) which has a climate with cold winters with occasional sub-freezing
temperatures and snow because of the altitude (1200 meters). The average rainfall is 40 millimeters/year. The materials used are cooked bricks, cement, clay, plaster, white cement as finish for inside walls, lime mixed with earth in the foundations, clay/straw for wall and roof insulation which enclose 620 square meters of space. The cost of construction (1999) was 50,000 US$ and took a total of 3 months to build. On average, every 2 days 3 domes were completed. The warehouse was constructed by Jacqueline Mirsadeghi. See more construction photos: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |

April 17, 2004

Design + Build in Marfa, Texas

NEW PROGRAM DATES FOR AREA SUMMER DESIGN+BUILD

JUNE 1 – JULY 1 2005

AREA is a summer research+build workshop that engages a 90 year old abandoned mud-brick building, located in the town of Marfa, Texas, as the testing grounds for questioning the notion of occupation, the theme of this years inquiry. Through a series of explorations that examine the process of making and unmaking in architecture, participants will design and build full-scale interventions that respond to a critical examination of place and program while addressing local/global and industrial/non-industrial agendas for architecture by employing raw earth as the primary building material in these investigations. Marfa serves as an ideal laboratory from where to study these issues. It is a town constructed almost entirely from mud-brick and transformed by rich historical, cultural and geographic forces. At 5,000 feet above sea level, it is one of the oldest cultivated areas in the United States. Located 30 miles from the U.S./Mexico border, Marfa is also home to the Chinati Foundation, an internationally renowned contemporary art museum, founded by Donald Judd, whose emphasis is on works in which art and the surrounding landscape are inextricably linked. Participants will have the opportunity to visit this extraordinary cultural and geographic landscape through a series of directed and self-guided field-studies. AREA is an initiative of the School of Architecture at Clemson University and made possible in part by the Adobe Alliance, a non-profit organization committed to the dissemination of traditional earth building technologies.

MORE INFORMATION AT: www.areainstitute.org

April 15, 2004

ADOBE 2004

The Second Annual Conference of the Adobe Association of the Southwest will take place May 21, 22 and 23 in El Rito, New Mexico on the campus of Northern New Mexico Community College in the recently renovated Cutting Hall Auditorium. It is a stately adobe building joining the two-story adobe South Dorm and Cafeteria.

Schedule:
Adel Fahmy, Cairo: “Old Traditions and New Improvements”
John Morony, Southwest Texas Junior College: “Adobe and Latent Heat; A Critical Connection”
Ronald Rael, Clemson University: “A Counter History of Modern Architecture” Luis Fernando Guerrero Baca, Univ. Autonima Metropolitana, Xochimilco with Francisco Uvina Contreras, Cornerstones Community Partnerships: “Conserving Adobe Architecture at the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro”
Dean Sherwin, Philadelphia: “Heavy and Slow, the Thermal Properties of Thick Wall Construction”
Reid Hayashi and Kristina Orchard-Hays, El Prado, NM: “Monolithic Adobe: A Viable and Inexpensive Building Method for the Southwest”
Arnie Valdez, San Luis, CO: “Adobe Education at UNM: Alternative Construction Methods and Materials”
Richard Burt and Charles Graham, Texas A&M: “The Earth Construction Course at Texas A&M University”
Barbara Narici, Milan, Italy: “Raw Earth Architecture in Italy between Tradition and Actuality; Geologika and Mud Interiors as an Ancient Energy in Today’s Immaterial Life”
Quentin Wilson, NNMCC: “Jacal y Fuerte, Wattle and Daub in NM”
Anita Otilia Rodriguez, Mexico and Taos: “La Enjarradora”
Mark Chalom, Santa Fe: “The Prisciantelli Home: Adobe Off the Grid”
Simone Swan, Santa Fe/Presidio: “Teaching Women in Obregon; Passing on the Legacy”
Pat Frazier, Abiquiu, NM: “Houses built by Pat and Felipe”
Steve Safken, Arizona: “Adobe: Compressive Structures and Materials” (Not Confirmed)
Susan Jerome, Mule Creek, NM: “Community Building at the Mudpit”
Dr. Mahmoud Ahmed Eissa, King Abdel Aziz University, Jeddah: “Ecological Aspects of the Courtyard House as a Passive Cooling System” (Not Confirmed)
Steve Burroughs, PhD, Canberra, “Affordable Earth Construction” (Pending)

Conference Schedule:

Friday, May 21, 2004
11AM to 1PM Registration
1:30PM to 4:30 PM Session I
5PM to 6:30PM Dinner
7PM to 9PM Social Hour

Saturday, May 22, 2004
9:30AM to 12M Session II
1:30PM to 5PM Tour
7PM to 9PM Session III

Sunday, May 23, 2004
9:30AM to 12M Session IV

Northern New Mexico Community College has dorm rooms, suites, and a cafeteria available at very reasonable prices. Contact Donald Martinez for reservations or local hotel/motel contacts at 505-581-4120 or donmart@mail.nnmcc.edu

The Conference registration cost is $30 for Association members and $45 for non-members. Charles Knight is the Conference Registrar at 505-581-0159 or mailto:cdkni@zianet.com

Contact Quentin Wilson, Conference Coordinator for other questions at 505-581-4156 or qwilson@mail.nnmcc.edu

April 11, 2004

The House That Clara Built

In 1943, Clara Alexander of Salem, Missouri, began constructing her rammed earth home. The overseer of the construction was Guy Eveland, a concrete and masonary expert. He had learned of the feasibility of this type of structure when he observed several of these houses while in France during World War I.

April 5, 2004

PROTERRA

PROTERRA is multilateral international project and technical cooperative whose focus is the dissemination of earth construction technologies within productive sectors to impact the social policies of Latin American countries. At the moment PROTERRA has more than 50 members coming from 15 Latin American countries. [Spanish and Portuguese Language Website]. Also, see what’s new at OIKOS Eco Arquitetura and visit their photo gallery [Portuguese Language Website].