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Preservation of Adobe architecture, adding rooms, bonding old and new, restoration, windows, doors, floors.
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Spanish Colonial artistry and 20th century functionalism combine in designs for the traditional adobe house. Adobe lends itself beautifully to architectural form and to the remodeling of form.
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Myrtle Stedman was known as an ''Artist in Adobe,'' designing, building, and remodeling adobe homes under a contractor's license. She was also a well-known artist whose academic training started in 1927 when she was a student in the Houston Museum of Fine Arts school. Her English born husband, Wilfred Stedman, whose background was in architecture as well as in painting and illustrating was recognized as one of the most outstanding artists of the American Southwest. Adobe architecture in New Mexico was one of Wilfred's favorite topics of conversation and Myrtle was instilled with the love of adobes from the moment they were married. After his death in 1950, Myrtle went on to become one of the foremost authorities on adobe construction. Myrtle Stedman was a member of PEN New Mexico, a branch of PEN Center USA West of International PEN and believed that there is no end to what the mind can do with the eye and hand, in time and in spirit. She is also the author of Artists in Adobe, A House Not Made With Hands, Adobe Architecture, Of One Mind, Of Things to Come, Ongoing Life, Rural Architecture, The Ups and Downs of Living Alone in Later Life, and The Way Things Are or Could Be, all from Sunstone Press.
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- PublisherSunstone Press
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 0913270547
- ISBN 13 9780913270547
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages31
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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 31 Pages with Stapled Binding. Very light wear to cover edges and corners. No other defects noted. Interior text and illustration pages are flawless. Adobe lends itself to architectural form and to the remodeling of form. In arid areas such as Santa Fe and surrounding villages and towns where adobe is readily available and climatic conditions favor its use, we need not think of an adobe building as an absolute entity that can neither be added to nor taken from. The history of an adobe house starts with four walls, a fireplace and a roof overhead, though it may grow to house four generations or generation upon generation, a congregation, a state or local business. The lasting qualities of the old adobes can only be attributed to adobe used in both outside and inside wall structure which presents a homogeneous self-supporting unit. For the past thirty years, because of labor costs, and a certain lack of appreciation for adobe a lot of frame and block have been used partially or in complete substitution for adobe. Now there is an upsurge of interest in adobe and in designing and building in adobe. Remodeling an old house built solidly of adobe can be very rewarding in retaining the soft acoustical nature of its structure as well as in maintaining coolness in the summer, warmth in the winter, and in preserving the many other charming qualities for which a real adobe is known. Seller Inventory # 17346
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