Many people don't know that adobe houses, despite their natural resilience, aren't a mainstream building material because of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: JayKay57/Getty Images An adobe house may evoke images of the Southwest, serapes, and the twangy keening of an Ennio ...

Whether your interest is in adobe homes, history, period architecture or vintage decor, this year’s Adobe Home Tour has something to offer. The tour on Sunday, March 26 will feature four homes: one in ...

Outside Luling, Texas, a few houses are seemingly just growing out of a field. There are no masons stacking bricks, no crew pouring concrete forms, no lumber frame waiting to be wrapped in drywall.

The house of an adobero is identifiable by the quantity and type of stuff in the yard. Those who work with adobe are natural scroungers and re-users: a heap of leftover mud bricks from someone’s ...