Reviews

"Unquestionably the best how-to-do-it book on all aspects of adobe construction, the updated version covers changes that reflect evolving environmental attitudes and recent shifts in building codes and energy requirements. Now better than ever."--Books of the Southwest "Covers every imaginable problem involved in building with adobe."--New Mexico Magazine "A very competent book about adobe construction written by an adobe builder. . . . Whether one is contemplating or adready planning to build in the Southwest this book is a must."--El Palacio "This revised edition includes the modern with the ancient; energy efficiency and code-meeting along with the traditional techniques and aesthetic considerations."--Essential Whole Earth Catalog "Practical and informal, this book succeeds in its purpose: to inform, instruct and inspire confidence in the homebuilder--edging him delightfully into adobe territory."--Journal of Arizona History