References
- 1What Is an Adobe House? — Architectural Digest
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- 3Spanish Pueblo Architecture — New Mexico Museum of Art
humanities.nmartmuseum.org
- 4Santa Fe Style, Explained — Living with Lolo
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Adobe: the corner is a curve
An adobe room has no sharp corner: the plaster is pulled round the join instead of cut there. The wall behind it is sun-dried mud brick, straw mixed into the clay to keep it from curling as it dries 1. At Taos Pueblo the walls run 70 cm thick at the base and are re-plastered by hand every year 2. In 1912 New Mexico wrote that look into a regional style for new building 3, which is how a room finished this year ends up with a rounded corner and a turquoise door — the quickest way to tell it from Territorial style, its squared-off, brick-capped cousin 4.
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