El Real Presidio de Santa Bárbara rendering set in the 1790s. (Russell Ruiz illustration) [Noozhawk’s note: First in a series.] I could have never guessed as I began my career as a historian that it ...

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 ...

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 ...