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Identifying feature

Vigas

Round wooden roof beams whose ends project through the outer face of adobe (sun-dried mud brick) walls. They are typical of Pueblo Revival and Spanish Colonial buildings in New Mexico.

a sign of these styles

Great Mosque of Djenné, Djenné, Mali: an example of African Vernacular African Vernacular traditional–present Sculpted earthen walls with permanent projecting timber spikes, conical thatched roofs, and courtyard compounds. New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe: an example of Pueblo Revival Pueblo Revival c. 1905–present Rounded adobe-look stucco, projecting round roof beams, stepped upper stories, and flat roofs.

often seen with

Battered wall A wall built with a batter, meaning it slopes inward as it rises and is thicker at the base. Courtyard An open-air space enclosed by the walls of a building or group of buildings. Stucco wall A wall coated with stucco, a plaster of cement or lime, sand and water, finished smooth or textured. Flat roof A roof that is level or nearly level, often edged by a low wall called a parapet. Geometric ornament Decoration made of zigzags, chevrons (V shapes), stepped forms and other repeated geometric shapes instead… Stepped setback Upper floors set back from the street in stages as a building rises. Thatched roof A roof made of thick layers of dried straw, reeds or grasses tied in bundles, usually steeply pitched so…