Mud Talks 15-5: Preserving Earthen Architecture - Raw Material Identification & Testing, Making Adobe Bricks, Working with Earth & Stone

Mar 15, 2022 · 55m 45s
Mud Talks 15-5: Preserving Earthen Architecture - Raw Material Identification & Testing, Making Adobe Bricks, Working with Earth & Stone
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With Mud Talks 15-5 we continue a special eight-part miniseries dedicated to the topic of preserving earthen architecture. In this fifth episode of the series we speak to Pat Taylor,...

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With Mud Talks 15-5 we continue a special eight-part miniseries dedicated to the topic of preserving earthen architecture. In this fifth episode of the series we speak to Pat Taylor, Historic Preservation Specialist & General Contractor followed by Calvin Chimoni from El Morro National Monument. We speak about raw material identification & testing, making adobe bricks as well as working with earth & stone.

Resources & Further Reading:

Adobe Conservation - A Preservation Handbook pp. 71 to 94
by Cornerstones Community Partnerships (Author), Francisco Uviña Contreras (Illustrator)
Publisher: Sunstone Press (August 15, 2006)
ISBN-13: 978-0865345270
https://www.cstones.org/books

US National Park Service
Repointing Mortar Joints in Historic Masonry Buildings
https://www.nps.gov/tps/how-to-preserve/briefs/2-repoint-mortar-joints.htm

University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design
Center for Architectural Conservation
https://www.design.upenn.edu/cac

US National Park Service
Vanishing Treasures Program
https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1022/services.htm

CROCKER LTD Architectural Conservation Website
http://www.crockerltd.net/

US National Park Service
El Morro National Monument New Mexico
https://www.nps.gov/elmo/index.htm

The Mud Talks Preserving Earthen Architecture series is brought to you in collaboration with Cornerstones Community Partnerships and is made possible by the support of the US Department of the Interior, National Park Service and a National Center for Preservation Technology & Training grant.
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