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Please contact us with any questions you may have
concerning your adobe restoration project. We are happy to help
in any way that we can.
Telephone: 831.438.0888
Mailing address:
Gil Sanchez Architect, FAIA
3012 Glen Canyon Rd
Santa Cruz, CA 95066
Sanchez Architect's project drawings and files are
archived at the University of California, Santa Barbara library
in Special Collections under the title Gil Sanchez Papers.
To view: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll.cema.sanchez.html.
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more information about historic adobe preservation: |
| Preservation Briefs
--see Brief No. 5 Preservation of Historic Adobe Buildings
and Brief No. 39 Unwanted Moisture in Historic Buildings.
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/tps/briefs/presbhom.htm |
| National Park Services
Preservation Services -- http://www2.cr.nps.gov/ |
| Cornerstones
Community Partnerships, a non-profit
organization encourages traditional building techniques within
rural Hispanic villages and Indian Pueblos in New Mexico. See
their Web page for how to order their excellent handbook "Adobe
Architecture Conservation Handbook". -- http://www.cstones.org |
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more information about adobe and new construction: |
| Architect Paul G.
(Buzz) McHenry has published several well-known books
on adobe construction. --
http://www.unm.edu/~mchenry |
Modern adobe in New
Mexico
This online publication, from the web site of the State
of New Mexico's Energy Conservation and Management Division,
provides extensive information on adobe. Topics covered include
the types of earthen bricks and walls, energy used in adobe
buildings, and various production techniques. The New Mexico
adobe building code comprises one of the appendices.
-- http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/ecmd/html/Publications/Adobe/ADOBE_TOC.htm |
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