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 ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Kathy Gurlandspread and patted and slapped mud Saturday, her silver rings caked in the cool earth. “Oh my god, a ...

Adobe as a building material has been used in New Mexico since long before the beginning of recorded history. By definition, it is a natural building material made of mud, reinforced with straw or ...

Preservationists have a term for what’s happening to one of Fresno’s most unique and architecturally significant buildings: demolition by neglect. That is when a historic property is willfully and ...

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 ...

It's a hot, windy spring day in rural Marana, with dust devils swirling on the horizon, and Eric Johnson has decided that it's too gusty for his crew at Clay Mine Adobe to make bricks. But the next ...