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Adobe is a sustainable, biodegradable,
non-toxic, locally available, basically free building material that you can learn to use at CASA.
Based in Taos, New Mexico, our workshops draw from centuries of local tradition and decades of professional experience to deliver adobe building techniques proven in the field by Master Enjarradora Anita Rodriguez and her trusted team.
Image: Daniel Sonis
Learn from the experts
The CASA team is comprised of seasoned, dedicated experts, hand picked by Anita Rodriguez to deliver the highest standards of training and proven techniques.
Learn the authentic tradition
Taos has been an epicenter for Earth building technologies for as long as one thousand years. This prolonged amount of time, and our culturally complex history, has allowed for the blending of Indigenous and Hispanic building styles to create the unique architecture of Northern New Mexico.
Taos Pueblo. Estimated built around 1300
Elisa.rolle, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
San José de Gracia, Las Trampas NM, built in 1760
Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ranchos Church. Built between 1772 and 1816
Archinia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Martinez Hacienda, Taos. Built in 1804.
Archinia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/
licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Learn to Innovate
CASA teaches participants traditional methods, developing methods and how to innovate, allowing creativity to meet need and skill to build exactly what is needed.
A very special thank you to our founding funder, the LOR Foundation.
Through their mission of "Listening first, LOR works with rural communities in the Mountain West to enhance livability and prosperity while preserving the character that makes each community unique," the LOR Foundation has helped countless community members. LOR has funded the creation of the instructional videos that will be available later this year.
Additional support from:
Did you know?
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"...the construction sector – the most polluting and toughest to decarbonise"
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The cement industry alone generates 8% of global carbon emissions.
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Adobe has a supply chain of Zero.
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Adobe is the cheapest material available for the owner builder.
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If you provide the labor, there is no building material less expensive that dirt. Then, heating, cooling and maintaining an adobe home is less expensive as well.
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