Pueblo Architecture and Modern Adobes: The Residential Designs of William Lumpkins: The Residential Designs of William Lumpkins

by Joseph Traugott, William Lumpkins, William T. Lumpkins

Book Overview

William Lumpkins is one of the most influential architects in the Southwest--pioneering the adobe passive-solar movement of the 1970s and 1980s, and creating modern architecture adapted from historic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890133670
• ISBN13: 9780890133675
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Inspiring

Many credit William Lumpkins with starting the adobe and pueblo revival movments. His designs are inspired. Lumpkins went back to the cliff dwellings and ancient pueblos looking for organic shapes and forms. His rooms seldom have square corners. Hornos, bancos and nichos (beehive fireplaces, bench seats and wall recesses)abound. There are living and dining rooms modeled after kivas, subterranean ceremonial chambers. Library and bedroom might be found in a three-story tower. Ceilings are made of vigas overset with latillas in herringbone pattern. Doors are carved. The roof-line is never even having an organic look like a range of mountains. A word of caution. These work best in adobe and similar materials. The designs were laid down in the 1960s and before. Bathrooms and closets are tiny. Utility rooms are nonexistant. Each design needs some reworking to be useful today. They are not inexpensive homes to build. They are spectacular.