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.
Email:
Telephone:
831.438.0888
Mailing address:
Gil Sanchez Architect, FAIA (E)
3012 Glen Canyon Rd
Scotts Valley, CA 95066
Email:
Telephone:
916.769.1334
Mailing address:
Cesar A. Medina, AIA
979 Eames Walk
West Sacramento, CA 95691
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.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c82v2djn/
For more information about historic adobe preservation:
Preservation Briefs:
Brief No. 5 Preservation of Historic Adobe Buildings:
https://www.nps.gov/tps/how-to-preserve/briefs/5-adobe-buildings.htm
Brief No. 39 Unwanted Moisture in Historic Buildings:
https://www.nps.gov/tps/how-to-preserve/briefs/39-control-unwanted-moisture.htm
National Park Services Preservation Services: https://www.nps.gov/tps/
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
For more information about adobe and new construction:
Getty Conservation Institute – http://www.getty.edu/about/contact_us.html
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1679
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/Multimedia/documents/ModernAdobeInNewMexico.pdf
