European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Daily agaz1nf by merger Cross National geographic Rick by Johl Buck. Acoma in Jinn work Rex a. Jip rebuilding 400 year old a to Cir ancestral Pueblo Atrip a isolator Jug foot Mesa. Since us Wink began in 1982, Aboul 100 units have been cd Nelcie a says supervisor Donnis Vallyn he Hopes the restored Uvo and three Story buildings will induce More Acoma to return to shy City. N m. All tools if word Acoma denote a place that always write historian Alan Minge. The people Lai that their Mesa top Home about 60 Miles West of Albuquerque in to oldest continuously inhabited City in the United staler mings nays they be Boon there to at least 1,000 Yea i Job a much longer and arc zoologists agree that Acoma Pueblo has been occupied Al Iasi since 1200 the enduring technique of making Adobe bricks in holds was introduced to Iho Acoma by Spanish Conquistador is in the mid-1500s. Only 50 or so Aroma now live year round in the Pueblo. Their determination to preserve Hook inc enl traditions Means Hal they Lack such amen Rios As electricity and running water their advisor on the res Lora Hon is a Whilo Man from Albuquerque. Pail Graham Mchenry jr., an architect and builder who specializes in Adobe construction and sees Adobe As a solution to Many of Iho third world s increasingly a King pc Terris. The worldwide Energy crisis particularly in developing nations must Load o the Rufi Lvalion of eat has a building material in meet Ever increasing needs Mchenry whole in paper f presented in Ankara Turkey last summer we have no other Mchenry author of several books on Adobe Ond other earthen buildings noles that More than Hall of 1he world s people Tive m hours made of Earth. He traces their Early development o the Middle East where he say such slur Turos were built As Early As 8000 in to Tigre euphrates Valley he is a me Nilor r of Iho advisory Council of Tho International foundation for Earth construction a three year old organization committed to helping solve global housing problems an estimated 800 million units ate needed to House the world s poor. Foundation pc Oieni 15 enc Carlson of Closter n j. Former chief of housing Lor the untied millions. Our main interest to says is in How to Transfer Sompol this relatively simple technology to countries Vul Here there Are san oui housing Tho u n general Assembly has designated 1987 the International year of is i or for Tho homofos.5 the foundation s c1, if a year will to linked Lothat Hico. The Well trn Veli a Tirl on lists widespread examples of Canhan building grow motile. Franco site of Active training and research in Inch construction China where More than 30 million people dwell in caves Colombia where volcanic soil is proving to be an Ideal material for Pius scr Brinl and numerous other areas Carlson pegs much of his Hope to a 55-year-old process developed m Calil omra. To mass produce stabilized in rfcs. Waterproof and erosion Rosis Ian i by mixing mud with an Asphall emulsion. Building Wilh Earth has he Poen isl for catching on he says Mchenry views it As an Uphill partly because of Adolho s split image of either poverty or great affluence " traditionally earthen buildings have provided holier for the world s neediest people in he southwestern United Stales Adobe p Ovid cd an inexpensive answer o housing needs for generations. Qty in the Pas Fri decades has it become in Canon s words a clue and and thelic building material " press Deal Reagan live m an old Adobe House stucco faced and while painted when he goes to Tancho Oelo in calf Orritia u 5. Supreme court Jii in i Sandra Day o Connor used to live in an Adobe a cur i in Phoenix. Mchenry and mi1 or Dpi Jiron and bind ovoid Turk irom expensive ado Tjo Homes to shopping cent Erin the Albuquerqu of Srna Adobe dominates Many of tin richest suburbs in my at Cico. An Ona. And but Mchenry emphasizes its simplicity and universality with very Little experience and equipment anyone can Mau Tii Lincks if he has Sutlick re kill and Diligence in. A in Hii ild a combo Itabac Biorac in sky City n.m., Dennis Vaflor supervises the rebuilding of Adobe apartments that Are 400years Adobe offers Hope for world s housing needs thick Adobe Walls in i coolness in the summer and warmth in the Winter anal ihc1/ Art a1mo to Gount prof to ,1 homemade and Oft Horst in a suburb to of Sinf a v a i a Wylor Juvil Noble and ins artist Tutlo Rulh Meria. They Fri members of a legion of i fit tinle la slum Liviu i . I in love Vilh the Smithw St and Novod to finn unless they d Hill it . They could i have attended the Rury Ulni Ghifor flip arid Ali Ujjin Njock a a Vander it a Lormor for Noti Siy iat Frio re Nair to Nilder a Ioctl i ii a i in a Ativo am Tell by Lff if Ich for a f h Fuimo Ivor a Joi t,in.- la thursday. January 1, 10b7 the stars and stripes Pago 13
