Albers began making the grid - based, rectilinear paintings, we learn, while living in a traditional adobe house in New Mexico. (davidzwirner.com)
It was a scattering of adobe houses with no running water, no sewage, and electricity for only a couple of homes. (scientificamerican.com)
There he started painting again, inspired by art and architecture he saw — weavings, ceramics, ancient stepped temples, brightly painted adobe houses — on vacations in Mexico and Latin America in the 1930s and»40s. (nytimes.com)