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.

The Mud Talks Preserving Earthen Architecture series is brought to you in collaboration with Cornerstones Community Partnerships and is made possible by the support of the US Department of the Interior, National Park Service and a National Center for Preservation Technology & Training grant.

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Mud Talks #15-4 Resource List

• 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