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 ...

May 29—Dirt, sand and a little bit of straw. Add some water, pack the mixture into bricks and let them bake under the hot summer sun. Adobe is an ancient and labor-intensive building material, but it ...

The craftsmen who created the adobe bricks for McCallum's house were members of the local Agua Caliente tribe. They combined sand, clay, water and some kind of fibrous or organic material like sticks, ...

Beneath the arms of aged trees outside of the Gutiérrez-Hubbell House in Albuquerque’s South Valley on Tuesday, men and women in broad-brimmed hats knelt and pressed a clay, sand and straw mixture ...