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Arizona's Adobe Architecture
Join us for an engaging look at Arizona's adobe architecture and the unique Sonoran Row House. This presentation by Borderlandia director Alex La Pierre introduces adobe’s fascinating history and its role in shaping Arizona’s unique look and feel. We’ll explore how these earthen brick houses were built to thrive in the arid desert, connecting today’s rare examples of existing row architecture with the Indigenous and Hispanic building roots of the borderlands region. Whether you're curious about adobe, historic preservation or just love learning about the Southwest, this presentation offers something for everyone.
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Alex La Pierre is the director and co-founder of Borderlandia, a bi-national organization committed to building public understanding of the borderlands. A public historian, his experience spans the nonprofit sector in Nogales and government work with the National Park Service in New Mexico and Arizona, focusing on historic preservation and heritage interpretation. Alex holds a degree from the University of Arizona, where his studies and continued research center on the Hispanic cultural heritage of the American Southwest and northern Mexico.
Talk will be held at the Tumamoc Hill Historic Boathouse (Base of the Hill)
RSVP by email: tumamoc-hill@arizona.edu