Sentences with phrase «of adobe houses»

The warm purple - pink tone of exposed earthenware imbues them with a fleshy quality, while their roughness evokes that of adobe houses.

It was a scattering of adobe houses with no running water, no sewage, and electricity for only a couple of homes.

«But it turns out they're porcelain roosters from Florence that Mabel Dodge Luhan brought with her from Italy and installed on top of the adobe house that she built.

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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.

She was daughter of Martín Amador, one of the most prominent citizens of the Mesilla Valley.7 In May 1908, García was preparing to build a house on land he owned facing the railroad depot by having a supply of adobes made.8 As time went by, he acquired numerous pieces of property throughout Las Cruces and Mesilla Park.

The enchanting two - story adobe - inspired casitas, housing 46 luxurious suites and guestrooms, are tucked in gentle hills above the picturesque fishing village of Zihuatanejo.

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.

But a group of squatters has built adobe shacks atop an ancient trash midden, or mound, and a local landowner may be planning to build a housing development over the buried pyramids.

Once an old and rundown shed, this renovated, window - covered adobe shed houses gorgeous pieces like glass chandeliers, a cozy couch, and of course tons of fresh flowers and plenty of plants.

An off - the - grid adobe house, courtesy of theinnovationdiaries.com An off - the - grid artist's studio and living space, courtesy of emergencyresponsestudio.org An off - the - grid boathouse, courtesy of shantyboatliving.com

The novel House of Earth was inspired by Guthrie's fascination with adobe building, and has never before been published.

The ancient casbah of Aït Benhaddou comes into view, its adobe houses climbing up the hillside, all rectangles and right angles.

His temple remains can be seen at the archaeological site of Raqchi, where you'll see the adobe wall of the temple and many administration houses.

And if you're hankering for handmade, still - warm tortillas, head straight for Old Town, site of California's first Spanish settlement, with restored adobes now housing shops and restaurants.

Avila Hot Springs: [phone] or 800-332-2359 and [email protected] Sycamore Mineral Springs: [phone] Price Anniversary House This homestead of a founding family is currently undergoing restoration and will become a complete museum and a working early California Rancho with adobe ruins.

We slept most of the way, huddled together in twos against the bitter cold, opening eyes occasionally to the jagged, green and brown mountains of the Peruvian Andes, the jarring political slogans plastered across adobe houses.

Chichicastenango is a town with an incredible collection of Mayan artifacts, surrounded by the authentic adobe houses and the high mountains.

8:00 am — Explore the market of Chajul, undiscovered market with beautiful ancient traditions, very traditional and established in the heart of the town, while good stock of old adobe houses, wooden beams and red roofs blackened by the smock of cooking fires makes this place a unique destination in Guatemala!

This historic adobe house called the Estudillo house is in the Old town area of San Diego and built - in the Spanish colonial style prevalent of abode homes of that period.

Containing a number of large buildings, Chan Chan was a city thought to have housed around 50,000 people and with ten thousand structures, this remains the largest adobe city on earth.

The community of Chiabal is surrounded by nature, and there are women knitting sitting outside their adobe houses.

This old colonial house has adobe walls and you can see the tiled roof typical of the zone from the inside with the wooden rafters visibly holding them up.

 Participating families added a dedicated bedroom to their adobe and stone house compounds. These simple rooms include two beds with mattresses made of totora reed harvested from the lake;  woolen blankets, and homespun cotton sheets. Dinner and breakfast may be provided by the family, or visitors may eat in the village.  Water is provided in ceramic jugs drawn from a well. Visitors use outhouses located adjacent to the house compound.  The views to the star - filled sky at night, and to the 20,000 - foot peaks of the Royal Range add to the experience of peace and tranquility.

The El Presidio Historic District is filled with beautifully restored mansions and the Barrio Historico with quaint adobe row houses, while the rest of the city is home to many excellent restaurants, nightclubs, vintage shops and more.

They are instead both — miraculously integrated, as only an artist who built an adobe house for herself and also aspired to empty her mind of thought while painting could do.

Located forty - five miles from Marfa in southern Presidio County, Casa Perez ranch contains an adobe ranch house from the early twentieth century, which was formerly the main house of a goat -LSB-...]

Located forty - five miles from Marfa in southern Presidio County, Casa Perez ranch contains an adobe ranch house from the early twentieth century, which was formerly the main house of a goat ranch.

In 1945, Georgia O'Keeffe purchased a four acre site with an adobe hacienda style house built around a central patio, on a mesa in the village of Abiquiu.

Describing the «Opens» as «a painted plane beautifully divided by minimal means, the essence of line drawing,» Mr. Motherwell said they derived in part from the unadorned, whitewashed adobe facades of Mexican houses with «beautifully proportioned» doors and windows.

Also known as Adobes, the Variants derive their basic geometric composition, of multiple, interlocking and apparently overlapping rectangles, from the simple facades of the traditional Adobe houses, with their two windows set either side of the doorway.

The Writer tells her whole story chronologically, from Martin's birth in Saskatchewan and her early years as an artist, living in derelict Manhattan shipping lofts with Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly and others, to the seven years she stopped painting, just as her career was taking off, the months she spent roaming the country in a pickup truck and her last 30 years, in Taos some of that time, in an adobe house she built with her own hands.

The story of her move to the desert, building a house by hand (one account made it sound like she began by putting adobe around her camper and worked outward from there) and of her «quitting» painting for the better part of a decade: I find all of that an inspiring example of taking an alternative path.

I have many facts and fascinating stories to share with you about the politics of the local six campasinos who control the core preserves.The Mexican NGO Alternare has worked to educate the 37 campasinos within the preserve to practice sustainable organic farming methods to prevent erosion, pesticide pollution, as well as to teach them to build their houses with adobe bricks rather than wood.

Because I live in an adobe house with tall ceilings, the eaves are way too high for me to mount this below, and there were no other appropriate spots on the house, unless I were to drill and install an anchor on the outside of the wall itself.

c. Need for thermic and hydric isolation in homes: they capacitated locals to build membranes with discarded tetrabrick; d. No interior heat and poor cooking techniques (fires inside the houses, which provoqued toxic smoque): they built and taught how to make an adobe (pressed mud dried to the sun) oven in one of the houses.

«At the same time, we were helping the local tribes make adobe houses, which work under entirely different principles of thermal mass and diurnal cycles.

Also, furnishing a traditional adobe style house with modern looking IKEA furniture would probably feel odd and would take all the charm out of the house.

People have been building houses out of rammed earth and cob (a kind of adobe) for centuries.