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The conversion of the southwest into imitation anywhere else is done because people want to move to the SW but don't really want to leave home. So they bring the architectural styles with them. A New England home designed over the generations to provide shelter in rain, snow and ice storms along with bitter cold is entirely inappropriate to New Mexico. Houses derived from local native houses or imported from desert Mexico or Spain make much more sense. That and the availability of material and labor is why so many older NM homes are flat roofed adobes.
PS - where can I get wild coyote recordings so I can establish a New Mexico ambiance when I move into my tile roofed adobe cave.
I am really looking for a one room 600 sq ft house with indoor plumbing and a shed for my motorcycle. I may have trouble selling this concept to my wife.
Ever tried Native American food?
Some of the Navajo dishes taste really good (but skip the fried bread).
Yeah, I've been all over Navajo lands, tried the food from time to time. I agree about the fry bread and don't understand the attraction for some people. For the rest, perhaps I just didn't make good choices of where to eat. I never liked any of it.
Yeah, I've been all over Navajo lands, tried the food from time to time. I agree about the fry bread and don't understand the attraction for some people. For the rest, perhaps I just didn't make good choices of where to eat. I never liked any of it.
Try the food on the Navajo Rez, its quite tasty once you manage to avoid the frybread.
The conversion of the southwest into imitation anywhere else is done because people want to move to the SW but don't really want to leave home. So they bring the architectural styles with them. A New England home designed over the generations to provide shelter in rain, snow and ice storms along with bitter cold is entirely inappropriate to New Mexico. Houses derived from local native houses or imported from desert Mexico or Spain make much more sense. That and the availability of material and labor is why so many older NM homes are flat roofed adobes.
PS - where can I get wild coyote recordings so I can establish a New Mexico ambiance when I move into my tile roofed adobe cave.
I am really looking for a one room 600 sq ft house with indoor plumbing and a shed for my motorcycle. I may have trouble selling this concept to my wife.
Antoine Predock would be perfect for that project. His studio space in his firm is lined with vintage/expensive motorcycles.
Greg W...the territorial style, with it's wood or brick pediments, distinctive neo-classical wood trim, metal roofing, etc. is as authentic to the State of New Mexico as is Pueblo Adobe, though it obviously hasn't been around as long. Eastern style and technology reached New Mexico over 150 years ago and had a major effect on homes and other structures. That's enough time to make it authentic in my book. I live in an adobe Pueblo style house, but don't think of it as any more "New Mexican" than the territorial or territorial Victorian homes that you'll find gracing historic neighborhoods throughout New Mexico's towns and cities.
For the record...a lot of Rez food is bland and ordinary. Have had some good stuff, but in a lot of years of crawling Navajo land I' ve always found most chow not special at all. But those glorious exceptions...mmmmm.
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