Create your own DIY adobe house with these small adobe house plans. This step-by-step guide includes information on creating the home foundation, making adobe bricks and detailed diagrams and ...

There are many house styles we are so used to seeing, from Victorian to new build designs. But Adobe homes are a historical yet lesser-seen architecture type that embodies some of this year's most ...

In the two years Don Laverty and Valorie McClelland have owned their Poway home, they have tackled numerous projects from tiling bathroom walls to planting a cactus garden. Each task is a labor of ...

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 ...

Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy, right, is the inspiration behind the adobe building techniques taught by Simone Swan and the Adobe Alliance. Simone Swan’s home and teaching center in Presidio, Texas, ...

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 ...

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 ...

SANTO DOMINGO PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) – First came the hail – sheets of it, pounding the centuries-old adobe homes at Santo Domingo Pueblo. Roofs were perforated “like a machine gun,” with some vigas broken ...

Melanie Glover rebuilt her home in Superior, Colorado, using earth bricks (Credit: Nick Aspinwall) These people are rebuilding homes lost to wildfires in the western US – only this time they are using ...

SANTO DOMINGO PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) - First came the hail - sheets of it, pounding the centuries-old adobe homes at Santo Domingo Pueblo. Roofs were perforated “like a machine gun,” with some vigas broken ...