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Early Pueblo Deco design was influenced by architect Mary Colter's work, which incorporated Native American elements. The term was popularized by author Carla Breeze, whose 1984 Pueblo Deco: The Art Deco Architecture of the Southwest (written with Marcus Whiffen), and 1990 Pueblo Deco books described the fusion of southwestern motifs with the ...
The Pueblo Revival style or Santa Fe style is a regional architectural style of the Southwestern United States, which draws its inspiration from Santa Fe de Nuevo México's traditional Pueblo architecture, the Spanish missions, and Territorial Style. The style developed at the beginning of the 20th century and reached its greatest popularity in ...
Cliff dwellings – Constructed in the sides of the mesas and mountains of the Southwest, cliff dwellings comprised a large number of the defensive structures of the Pueblo people. Jacal is a traditional adobe house built by the ancestral Pueblo peoples. Slim close-set poles were tied together and filled out with mud, clay and grasses, or adobe ...
Vigas and latillas in the ceiling of San Francisco de Asis Mission Church, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico The exterior of the same building showing the projecting vigas Bandelier National Monument Headquarters, originally the Park Lodge Dining room and snack-bar building, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps Latillas in a viga roof
The main style point was a large breezeway (instead of a hallway) through the center of the house to cool occupants in the hot southern climate. [1] [3] A dogtrot house built with a fully enclosed second floor is known as a "saddle bag". Architects continue to design variants of dogtrot houses using modern materials. [4] [dead link ]
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Ancestral Puebloan people first began building pueblo structures during the Pueblo I Period (750–900 CE). When Spanish colonists arrived in the Southwest beginning in the late 1500s, they learned the local construction techniques from the Pueblo people and adapted them to fit their own building types, such as haciendas and mission churches. [1]