With Mud Talks 15-4 we continue a special eight-part miniseries dedicated to the topic of preserving earthen architecture. In this fourth episode of the series we speak to Jake Barrow, Program Director at Cornerstones Community Partnerships. We speak about earthen building assessments, identifying damage & structural issues as well as basic engineering principles & seismic/structural retrofit of historic earthen buildings.

Resources & Further Reading:

Adobe Conservation - A Preservation Handbook pp. 54 to 70 and 85 to 98
by Cornerstones Community Partnerships (Author), Francisco Uviña Contreras (Illustrator)
Publisher: Sunstone Press (August 15, 2006)
ISBN-13: 978-0865345270
https://www.cstones.org/books

Earthen Architecture and Seismic Codes; Lessons From the Field
by Edward Crocker, Crocker Ltd. Architectural Conservation, Trustee, US/ICOMOS
https://crockerltd.net/earthen_architecture_lessons.pdf

Earthen Architecture Initiative Seismic Retrofitting Project by The Getty Conservation Institute
https://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/pdf_publications/pdf/earthen_arch_seismic_bib.pdf