“Southwestern” is a term that incorporates a broad range of architectural styles reflecting regional influences. Whether you call it Pueblo Revival or Santa Fe, Southwestern architecture reflects design elements that are uniquely suited to the climate, cultural, and artistic talents of its earliest inhabitants. Long before Europeans arrived in North America, Pueblo Indians first built houses made of adobe, a sun-dried clay brick, as long as 1,000 years ago. The simple, cubic, flat-roofed dwellings of the Southwest’s indigenous people remained cool in the blazing hot temperatures of the Southwest because of their thick walls made of sun-dried mud (adobe). Earth-toned walls, long flat roofs with heavy wooden exposed beams, called vigas, are
