Adobe "bricks" are usually made with tightly compacted earth, clay, and straw. However, construction methods and the composition of the adobe will vary according to climate and local customs.
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Med bricks reinforced with straw. Used particularly in Latin America and southwestern USA, adobe produces a distinctive architectural style based on organic forms, a smooth finish, and a minimum of window openings.
Adobe
Unbaked brick, dried by the sun, as used for house construction in the Southwestern United States.
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adobe : Sun-dried brick used in places with warm, dry climates, such as Egypt and Mexico; the clay from which bricks are made; the structures built out of adobe bricks.
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Blocks of adobe clay and water mixed with straw and horse manure, formed in wooden molds, and baked in the sun. Adobe was a common building material at the missions. The average weight of a dried block was approximately 60 pounds.
Adobe -- a natural material composed of mud, water, and organic materials such as hay, straw, or manure -- was not used in Fullerton as a building material. Instead, stucco in warm earth tones was used for Pueblo Revival houses.
Adobe - Construction using sun-dried units of adobe soil for walls; usually found in southwestern United States.
Column: Vertical supporting member.
Whereas the nomadic tribes of North America left little permanent building, the Pueblo people of Sonora, Mexico, and of Arizona and New Mexico did build in stone and adobe.
The main home had walls which were made up of adobe (dirt and water), and they were supporting the thatched roof. There were no separate rooms; just one big room. It was divided into 4 separate areas.
Stucco may be used to cover less visually appealing construction materials such as concrete, cinder block, or clay brick and adobe. The difference in nomenclature between stucco, plaster, and mortar is based more on use than composition.
Adobe, Mud brick - A moulded and sun-dried brick or block of clay (or the clay itself) usually containing chopped straw reinforcement, used for the walls of earth buildings.
The style updates Larkin's vision of a New England Colonial with an Adobe brick exterior. The Adobe reflected an element of Spanish Colonial houses common in the Monterey area at the time.
Due to the scarcity of lumber,[1] the two predominant building materials used in ancient Egypt were sunbaked mud brick (adobe) and stone, mainly limestone, but also sandstone and granite in considerable quantities.
2. Buildings and other large structures: the low, brick-and-adobe architecture of the Southwest.
3. A style and method of design and construction: Byzantine architecture.
Lateres - Roman bricks. These could be fired clay (coctus) or simply dried mud like adobe (crudus).
Macellum - A market structure furnishing meats and poultry and other provisions.
The complex consists of a mosque, madrassa and several accommodation blocks, all built out of mud brick known locally as adobe (from the Arabic al-toub).
The John Douglass Brown House, post-1654. Was a farm house, now engulfed by urban Alexandria.
17-18. Los Angeles, CA. Spanish Colonial. Historic Olvera Street. Avila Adobe, c.1818. Oldest existing house in Los Angeles. .
 See also: Architecture, House, Brick, Floor, Ground
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