Pueblo Architecture and Modern Adobes: The Residential Designs of William Lumpkins [CLOTH Edition]

Contemporary Southwest Architecture is a fusion of influences and styles-Spanish Colonial. Pueblo, art deco. This book distills the pure architectural traditions and contributions of the indigenous Pueblo and prehistoric Anasazi cultures in a series of modern residential designs by one of the region's most influential architects.

For more than six decades architect William Lumpkins has been a force in contemporary regional design. Early in the 1930s he grounded his architecture in honesty, simplicity, and usefulness, the tenets of the Craftsman style. His designs of the late 1940s captured the essence of the Revival period in Spanish-Pueblo style. In the 1970s he pioneered passive solar design and soon became the acknowledged master of solar principles.

In 1967 Lumpkins left the world of commercial building in California to return to his native New Mexico. Two years earlier, while vacationing in the Zuni mountains, he had discovered Victor and Cosmos Mindelleff's studies of historic Pueblo and Anasazi architecture. He had assumed that open rectangular courtyards were brought to New Mexico by the Spanish, yet his visit to the pre-Spanish Pueblo ruins near Zuni confirmed another time line that caused him to rethink the history of the region's architecture.

Afterwards, Lumpkins sought to distill the Pueblo architectural forms that had been largely lost in the Spanish Colonial Revival movement of the 1920s and 1930s. His detailed drawings issuing from this investigation, all based upon documented Pueblo sites, present a pure interpretation of an historic style for the modern age.