Sentences with phrase «history of adobe»
They learned about the history of adobe, and used math and physics to determine how to design and build sturdy walls.
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Orlando Romero and David Larkin trace the history of adobe buildings from Africa and Europe to the solar heated and powered houses of New Mexico and California.
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«History told me that you just keep working, and it is easy to make more money,» he said, sitting in the kitchen of his adobe - style house in the southwest corner of New Mexico.
This find and others nearby (including the ancient city of Caral and a 3,600 - year - old adobe carving of a human sacrifice) are rewriting history by showing that the Americas had booming civilizations at the same time that Mesopotamia was thriving half a world away.
The use of adobe has a long history in the Texas / Mexico border region where Ballroom is based.
They also reference my own history: my father's practice of working with adobe and my experience of adobe brickmaking as a collaborative process.
By building with adobe in galleries I am bringing all of this — and the muddy history of American soil, colonization, and progress — into a traditionally white context.