Anita Otilia Rodríguez built her house out of adobe in the 1970s, using techniques she learned from enjarradoras — craftswomen in the Hispanic villages and Indigenous Pueblos of New Mexico.
“The house is basically wrapped,” Kristin Ulibarri says. “It’s got this heavy plastic basin under the slab so there are no air leaks.” “Every time we had a building inspection, we’d call ,” Ross laughs, “and he’d say, ‘Gee, I can’t come, but you guys are doing a good job right?”to break free from modern architectural conventions. Today, that tradition continues, with architects and builders pioneering the latest green building trends.Karlis Viceps has been designing green homes in the area since the early 1980s, including his own, which is literally dug into a hillside overlooking Taos.
As a custom builder, Viceps is partly drawn to these ideas because he grew up in a house that his parents built by hand in Central New York after immigrating from Latvia. He worked summer jobs on construction crews and eventually studied engineering and design, but says the standard way of building homes bothered him.
At 83 years old, Rodríguez has seen Native communities and traditional ways of building supplanted by a modern system that she says is isolating people and destroying the environment. Re-learning traditional building methods that rely on local materials — like adobe in the Southwest — could help cut climate pollution from the construction industry. Rodríguez says it could also bring fractured and segregated communities together.
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