The Origin & Evolution of Pueblo-Style Architecture

Jules Moore: The adobe bricks that they make out of a compressed grass, clay, and sand. And they mix that, create a mud and they leave it out in the sun to dry. That's the bricks that actually creates the houses. And it's known as a Pueblo style of architecture. It precedes 5,000 BC and it began in the Middle East. A lot of desert cultures did it because they didn't have trees, so they had to use what was in their natural surroundings. So, you can sort of understand why they took sand and water and pressed to make these bricks. And the structures, they actually began round. If you look at the fireplaces in my house and think of that kind of round structure, that's what they were living in. And as years went on, they started to build other rooms, but they would make them out of different soils. It’s very clever. They would use different soils because of heat resistance or how it traps the heat. Say it's the kitchen and you need it to stay cooler and your bedroom at night needed to be warmer. That was their thinking. They used different soils to create them. So, it's an extremely eco way of building.