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detail of adobe architecture, La Fonda, Santa Fe, NM View of the La Fonda hotel from the southwest, built in 1922 and remodeled in 1929 The regional architecture from which the Pueblo style draws its inspiration is primarily found in New Mexico and Arizona, but also Colorado.
Vigas are wooden beams used in the traditional adobe architecture of the American Southwest, especially in New Mexico.In this type of construction, the vigas are the main structural members carrying the weight of the roof to the load-bearing exterior walls.
Pueblo architecture experienced a resurgence in the 1920s and 1930s as a romanticized revival style, Pueblo Revival, and remains popular in New Mexico. A buttressed wall at Acoma Pueblo showing both adobe and stone construction in the same building.
The De Vargas Street House is a two-story adobe building; the first floor is original and the second floor was reconstructed based on the original in the 1920s. Most of the house is constructed from adobe brick, which was a Spanish colonial technology, while a few lower wall sections are puddled adobe characteristic of pre-Spanish pueblo buildings.
Adobe wall (detail) in Bahillo, Palencia, Spain Renewal of the surface coating of an adobe wall in Chamisal, New Mexico Adobe walls separate urban gardens in Shiraz, Iran. Adobe (/ ə ˈ d oʊ b i / ⓘ ə-DOH-bee; [1] Spanish pronunciation:) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. Adobe is Spanish for mudbrick.
The new church allowed it to be returned to full public display for the first time since 1859. The church was one of the most ambitious adobe buildings ever undertaken in New Mexico, requiring 150,000–200,000 individual adobes. Around 120 laborers worked onsite to manufacture and lay the adobes and cut logs and branches into vigas and latillas.
Adobe and light construction methods resembling adobe now dominate architecture at the many pueblos of the area, in nearby towns or cities, and in much of the American Southwest. [ 18 ] In addition to contemporary pueblos, numerous ruins of archeological interest are located throughout the Southwest.
The building is at 24,000 square feet (2,200 m 2) the largest known adobe office building, emulating in its style and layout the forms of traditional adobe architecture common to the region. [ 4 ] The office is located in a somewhat rural setting southeast of downtown Santa Fe, on the south side of Old Santa Fe Trail at its junction with Camino ...