Adobe: Made of Mud
Residents of Northern Mexico and the Southwestern United States are having a renewed romance with adobe structures. Demand for stylish, upscale Indigenous and Mexican-influenced architecture shows no sign of slowing. Sharp eyed aficionados can drive around almost any local residential street or business district in a big city to see variation upon variation of this warm and comfortable style. Whether it is Mission, Monterrey, Rancho Hacienda, or Pueblo Revival, adobe constructed homes and commercial buildings have always been a beautiful and economically friendly way of living. Now, they are also a hot commodity.
Adobe architecture has not always been so romanticized. In the past, adobe homes were a sign of poverty, and adobe building were generally only seen in poorer areas of a city. Many times people would try to conceal the fact that they lived or worked in an adobe structure by camouflaging the façade with more modern materials. Beautiful......
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