Styles of New Mexico Architecture and Terms

LEXICON AND PICTURE TERMS BELOW
There are three basic styles of New Mexico architecture:
1. Pueblo style, this is adobe looking flat roof with use of wood for beams, vigas, and corbels.  Soft rolled corners
with use of arches and rounded corners.

2. Territorial style, this is flat roof adobe type with a roof detail line around the top of the building.  Sometimes
this roof detail is done with bricks and is carried over the windows.  Most times the windows have white pointed wood
and this is carried to the protal which features the white wood around the top.

3. Northern NM is a metal pitched roof with gabels around the windows. Again white wood trim is on the windows and sometimes
the pueblo wood decor is used on the portal.


WHATS
A COYOTE FENCE AND ADOBE WALL? 




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 HOMES  in Albuquerque.

RIO RANCHO NEW MEXICO HOMES west Albuquerque.

CORRALES NEW MEXICO HOMES north river Albuquerque 

PLACITAS NEW MEXICO HOMES north of AlBUQUERQUE 

LOS LUNAS NEW MEXICO HOMES south Albuquerque 


ADOBE:
SPECIAL HIGH SILICON MUD THAT IS MIXED WITH STRAW OR SAGE 
TO CREATE BLOCKS 18 INCHES APPROX.  THE MUD IS USED ALSO AS THE MORTOR
BETWEEN THE BLOCKS AND THE PLASTER TO SMOOTH THE SURFACE.



ARBOR
SIMILAR TO RAMADAS WITH OPEN AIR DESIGN AND BEAM OR
LATTICE ROOFS. 







BANCOS:
ADOBE OR FRAME WIRE AND SHAPED BENCHES BUILT INTO OR JUTTING
OUT OF THE WALL.

CANALES:
WATER CANNALS OR RUN OFFS ON SO CALLED FLAT OR PUEBLO ROOFS.
SOME TIME THEY ARE JUST HOLES AT THE ROOF LEVEL AND OTHER ARE CARVED WOOD
WITH TIN LINERS TO SPOUT THE WATER FROM THE ROOF.
CONTEMPORARY NM STYLE





CORBEL:
AT THE TOP OF A VERTICAL POLE OR WOOD STANTION WILL BE A CARVED
BLOCK THAT SPREADS THE WEIGHT AND LOOKS DETAILED.

KIVA:
COMMONLY THE ROUNDED PLASTERED STYLE OF FIRE PLACE.  SOME TIMES
AND OUTDOOR ROUNDED FIRE PLACE FOR BREAD MAKING.  ALSO A CEREMONIAL ROUND
MEETING AREA BELOW GROUND.

LATILLAS:
NATURAL ONES ARE STICKS OR BRANCHES LAID ON THE VIGAS OR BEAMS TO
BECOME THE ROOF SUPPORT.  FINISHED LATILLAS ARE SMOOTHED AND UNIFORM CARVED OUT OF A 4 X8 SHEET OF WOOD.

NICHOS:
A LEDGE OR CUT INTO A WALL SOMETIMES LIT WITH ART OBJECTS IN THEM.

NORTHERN NM:NORTHERN NM STYLE


PITCHED METAL ROOF SOMETIMES WITH GABLES.

PERGOLA:
LIKE A RAMADA OR ARBOR WITH MOR ARCHITECTURAL DETAIL
SUCH AS MASONRY COLUMNS AND VINES.



PONY WALL:
A HALF WALL SEPARATING A ROOM USALY DINING SOMETIMES
WITH STEP DESIGN AND UNFINISHED ADOBE BLOCK.


PORTAL:
A PATIO COVERED OR PORCH USING VIGAS, CORBELS
OR OTHER EMBELLISHMENTS IN PUEBLO STYLE HOMES 

PUEBLO NM STYLE


ADOBE TYPE HOME WITH FLAT ROOF, ROUNDED CORNERS AND SOMETIMES 
WITH VIGAS PROTRUDING THROUGH THE WALLS AT THE ROOF LINE.

RAMADA:
AN ATTACHED OR DETACHED SHADE STRUCTURE WITH VIGAS,
LATILLAS, BEAMS OR OTHER SW MATERIALS


SALTILLO TILE:
SOFT CERAMIC TILE FROM MEXICO CALLED SANTA FE STYLE.

TERRITORIAL STYLE

ADOBE TYPE HOME WITH FLAT ROOF, SQUARED CORNERS WHITE 
TRIM OVER WINDOWS AND DOORS WITH DETAIL AT THE ROOF LINE.

VIGA:
THE BEAM USED FOR ROOF SUPPORTS.  NATURAL ARE TREE TRUNKS AND
FINISHED CAN BE WASHED WOOD.

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