Adobe brick making #2: Some adobe brick abodes
As part of my adobe brick making series, I thought I might show some examples of what an adobe brick building might look like. I guess most people might imagine that an adobe brick building must necessarily look like came out of the southwest US but not so. Mudbrick has been used for centuries and there are far more mudbrick homes than you probably imagine. Many of them look like any other building that you are used to seeing. I’ve chosen to limit my pictures to homes built here in New Zealand and to buildings which use the kind of unstabilized (ie: no cement added) mud bricks shown in my previous post. The main reason I do this, is that New Zealand is hardly the typical dry d...