Adobe architecture

People have different preferences and needs when choosing a place to live. Some want a spacious, comfortable home, while others prefer a cozy, eco-friendly

Pueblo architecture is the traditional architecture of the people in the southwestern United States, especially New Mexico. It is inspired by the cliff

In modern city life, pigeons are often a nuisance to be stepped around or shooed away. But for ancient civilizations, the birds filled a necessary position, prompting communities to build masses of adobe dovecotes, or pigeon towers. Surrounded by an expansive desert with little vegetation, the historical dovecotes pictured above are located just south of Riyadh. Saudi Arabia-based photographer Rich Hawkins recently captured the fourteen towers, saying they’re the first he’s seen in the…

In an arid region known for traditional adobe architecture, US studio Mollhaus has created a home for an artist, with walls coated in earthen-hued stucco

Adobe is New Mexico’s most plentiful building material and helps define our unique architecture—past and present.

Embracing the beautiful art of traditional Iranian architecture and combining it with modern architecture, with this domed adobe hut inspired by cloud-clay structures, in the heart of the Mian Dasht plain of Razavi Khorasan province, Iran in Baktash tourist complex.

adobe houses of southwest. great insulation.

designboom catches up with british architect john pawson on minimalism, playfulness and the monks inspired by his calvin klein store design in 1995.

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