The Red Door on Canyon Road
by Paul LeSage
Title
The Red Door on Canyon Road
Artist
Paul LeSage
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Photograph - Photography
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A classic Santa Fe, New Mexico, home along Canyon Road, with its adobe walls, vigas, corbels and flat roof. It is this classic architectural style that gives Santa Fe its unique feel and atmosphere.
The Pueblo Revival style is a regional architectural style of the Southwestern United States, which draws its inspiration from the Pueblos and the Spanish missions in New Mexico. The style developed at the turn of the 20th century and reached its greatest popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, though it is still commonly used for new buildings. Pueblo style architecture is most prevalent in the state of New Mexico.
Pueblo-style architecture imitates the appearance of traditional Pueblo adobe construction, though more other materials such as brick or concrete are often substituted. If adobe is not used, rounded corners, irregular parapets, and thick, battered walls are used to simulate it. Walls are usually stuccoed and painted in earth tones. Multistory buildings usually employ stepped massing similar to that seen at Taos Pueblo. Roofs are always flat.
Common features of the Pueblo Revival style include projecting wooden roof beams or vigas, which sometimes serve no structural purpose, "corbels", curved,often stylized,beam supports and latillas, which are peeled branches or strips of wood laid across the tops of vigas to create a foundation (usually supporting dirt or clay) for a roof. Wikepedia
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June 30th, 2017
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