The Adobe House plans to develop a curriculum and be open to visitors four to five hours a day, three days a week. However, volunteers are needed to make the plan come to fruition. BAKERSFIELD, Calif.

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 ...

When the construction boom began in the Roaring Twenties, interest in adobes began to build. In 1920, the local paper wrote, “Adobe May Solve Building Problem. Adobe, once so essential to building and ...

Bill Cooper doesn’t consider himself a radical, but one morning almost two decades ago, he was walking through Hart Memorial Park in Bakersfield and saw bulldozers and work crews lined up and ready to ...

A startup south of Austin is using robots to build homes out of clay pulled directly from the ground — a new approach aimed ...

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1981 Festival of American Folklife, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. The Spanish colonials and the Indians of the ...