Many people don't know that adobe houses, despite their natural resilience, aren't a mainstream building material because of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: JayKay57/Getty Images An adobe house may evoke images of the Southwest, serapes, and the twangy keening of an Ennio ...

It is going to take more than a huff and a puff and the latest building trend to alter Geri Deardon’s Manhattan Beach home made of adobe. The adobe brick corner house at 2500 Pine Ave. just recently ...

A decision to tear down the historic adobe Paxton house in Escondido has no plan B. And the city needs the 42 condo units that will take its place. But the house, most recently known as Hacienda de ...

Marlene Montoya, a Costa Rica expat and lover of all things adobe, understands that life and beauty come from dirt. After all, the Book of Genesis says, “God formed man of the dust of the ground, and ...

Of all the cultural tags that help define our Southwestern region and heritage, the use of adobe has to rank near the top. From South Texas to New Mexico and Arizona to California, adobe houses add ...

As the largest city in New Mexico, Albuquerque is one of the fastest-growing high-tech centers in the U.S. Yet you rarely see skyscrapers here. Instead you will find small, dirt-walled houses ...

Known for her stoicism, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said she could not mask her emotion at the sight of her 1958 adobe house restored on a desert bluff in Papago Park. "I ...