J.B. Jackson wrote extensively about the New Mexico landscape, often focusing on what he called the vernacular, mostly built, landscape. From THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE:
"Of all the states New Mexico contains perhaps the most extraordinary variety of house types--that is, types of dwelling. There are Pueblo Indian, Spanish-American, and Navajo houses...Some house types are 800 or 900 years old....there are also house types like the trailer or mobile home that are new and still evolving."
(All images © JW Burleson 2013)
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Trucks, cars, highways, landscape, good writing. "You cannot travel on the path, before you have become the Path itself."
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Saturday, August 17, 2013
Bill Burleson & John Brinckerhoff Jackson: New Mexico Vernacular
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