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Location New Mexico   map
Date 1500 's and later   timeline
Building Type multifamily housing
 Construction System adobe brick masonry with cedar wood spanning
Climate hot dry desert
Context rural
Style Southwest Vernacular
Notes Blocky masses of earthen material, harmonious with landscape.
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Drawings

 

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Discussion Taos Pueblo Commentary

"Still inhabited, though now modified, is the Taos Pueblo, Taos, New Mexico, begun before the sixteenth century but showing the traditional method of adobe construction. The pueblo consists of two clusters of houses, each built of sun-dried mud brick, with walls ranging from two feet thick at the bottom to about one foot thick at the top. Each year the walls are still refinished with a new coat of adobe plaster as part of a village ceremony. The rooms are stepped back so that the roofs of the lower units form terraces for those above. The units at ground level and some of those above are entered by doors that originally were quite small and low; access to the upper units is by ladders through holes in the roof. The living quarters are on the top and outside, while the rooms deep within the structure were used for storage of grain. The roofs are made of cedar logs, their ends protruding through the walls; on the logs are mats of branches on which are laid grasses covered with a thick layer of mud and a finishing coat of adobe plaster. It is a massive system of construction but one well suited to the rigors of the climate..."

— Leland M. Roth. A Concise History of American Architecture. p6.

Details

Location: 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) north of the town of Taos
Elevation: 7600 feet above sea level
Contact: Taos Pueblo Tourism Office, P.O. Box 1846, Taos, NM 87571, 505-758-1028 vox, 505-758-4604 fax

A UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A U.S. National Historic Landmark.

Resources
Sources on Taos Pueblo

Francis D. K. Ching. Architecture: Form, Space, and Order. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979. ISBN 0-442-21535-5. LC 79-18045. NA2760.C46. eye-level perspective, p84. — A nice graphic introduction to architectural ideas. Updated 1996 edition available at Amazon.com

Howard Davis. Slides from photographer's collection. PCD.2260.1012.1702.092. PCD.2260.1012.1702.099. PCD.2260.1012.1702.098. PCD.2260.1012.1702.097. PCD.2260.1012.1702.096. PCD.2260.1012.1702.095. PCD.2260.1012.1702.093. PCD.2260.1012.1702.094

see also Nabokov, Native American Architecture

Jerome Iowa. Ageless Adobe. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 1985. ISBN 0-86534-034-X. LC 84-16337. NA730.N38I59. site plan drawing, p18. 0

George Kubler. The Religious Architecture of New Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1973. LC 72-86823. NA5230.N6K8 1973. site plan drawing in 1846, f3, p20. After Price, in Twitchell, 1912, p. 204. [DP]

Leland M. Roth. A Concise History of American Architecture. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1979. ISBN 0-06-430086-2. NA705.R67 1979. discussion, p6. overview photo, p7.

Sandra Seth and Laurel Seth, illustrations by Valerie Graves. Adobe! Homes and Interiors of Taos, Santa Fe and the Southwest. Stamford, CT: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1998. ISBN 0-942655-00-1. LC 87-37421. NA7235.N6S48 1998. discussion and photos, p12-15. — Great appreciation and tons of ornamental and how-to details for true southwestern US adobe. Available at Amazon.com

Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com

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