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  • Online Work
  • Field Projects
    • Sourcing Clay in Búðardalur
    • Casa Grande Ruins
    • Anyway
    • Reykjavík Soil Tests
    • Fire in the Wind
    • Death Valley Boundary Wall V
    • Red Ryder Adobe
    • Space Becomes Place
    • Iceland Turf House
    • Two Santa Fe Hornos
    • Pioneertown Garden Wall
    • Death Valley Boundary Wall I
    • Weimar Translation
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Casa Grande Ruins

December 2019

Casa Grande Ruins was an adobe restoration workshop that I co-led for Cornerstones Community Partnerships at Casa Grande National Monument in Arizona. We restored a section of an adobe boundary wall which was built by the CCC in the 1930s. Various volunteers helped make adobe blocks and build the wall. We employed a single-wythe (12 inch wide) adobe wall technique using natural adobe bricks and mortar. This is the largest adobe block size I have ever used - 12" x 18" x 4" with a dry weight of 54 pounds per block! All of the adobe blocks used for this phase of the project (about 500) were made on site by hand.

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