Adobe is used in buildings all around the world - from the historical to those right here in Albuquerque! Browse these pictures for examples of different styles, methods, and ideas. Check out our different galleries to see local buildings, adobe manufacture, and field trips to our yard:

Construction Gallery - Finished architecture from around New Mexico

Production and Adobe Yard Gallery - Find out how we make adobes right here in Albuquerque

Field Trip Gallery - We welcome schools to come tour our yard and try their hands at making bricks.

Garden wall built by Keith Levine, Albuquerque, 2018
 

 

Garden shed by Mike Goss, Albuquerque 2015
 

Building under construction by Win DeLapp, Albuquerque, NM
 

 

Sandra Hoover's garden path, Albuquerque, lined with 152 adobe blocks
 

Old adobes and new at the Ed Garcia residence in Albuquerque. Done by Architect Richard Schalk and by mason Ernest Aragon of Adobe Palaces
 

House by builder John Calvin in Albuquerque, 2007
 

"Tickle Path," the path of textures, Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque. Created by 8 year old Julia, of Albuquerque.
 

Garage by Rick Martinez, 2014
 

Founder and proprietor Richard Levine at the Solar Fiesta, next to our demonstration adobe arch
 

Farm to Table Restaurant project in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque by builder Carl Manning
 

Art studio wall in Los Angeles, Ben Loescher project head, 2016
 

Linton houses in Old Town Albuquerque, 2014 by builder Ernest Aragon
 

A stepped wall at our NME sales office in Albuquerque, NM
 

Work by John McEvoy in New Mexico
 

 

Harry Pozas' House, New Mexico, 2010
 

 

The Rakestraw Residence in New Mexico. An adobe home in the making
 

 

A casita by Noah, one of our guest builders at the 2010 Solar Fiesta
 

Adobe production starts with mixing adobe dirt and water into mud with the pugmill
 

Mud in the mud pit
 

Laying out forms for the pour
 

Mark (Production Manager and President) and Helen (Office Manager and Vice President) pouring and pulling mud to fill the adobe forms
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A hot air balloon passing over our field full of bricks in 2014. Being close to the International Balloon Fiesta gives us a chance to wave at balloonists every year!
 

After the adobes start to dry, they are turned on edge and scraped to remove excess dirt
 

Scraped adobes left to dry in the field
 

 

Dry adobes are stacked onto trucks and pallets
 

 

Pallets of adobes waiting and ready
 

 

Heading out! Pallets full of adobes leave the yard for their new home
 

New Mexico Earth in the winter snow, 2010
 

 

A visiting field trip makes bricks next to the mud pit, April 2014
 

 

Students in March, 2014, mix mud and make bricks
 

 

A field trip from UNM makes full-sized and mini adobes next to the office
 

Adobe Sundial This sundial was made in the spring of 2010 by students of the UNM honors program. The student used hand-made adobes. In this picture it is nearly four o'clock.