Taos New Mexico
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The Taos Art Museum and home of Nicolai Fechin (Fechin House); interior.
Per: http://www.taosartmuseum.org/about.html
"Working in his father's workshop as a youth provided training for Nicolai as a carver. He absorbed a variety of influences from his Russian heritage and also from his encounters with Native American and Hispanic cultures. Armed with mallet and chisel, he began carving columns, stair rails, vigas, doors, and furniture."El Santuario de Chimayo, New Mexico. (photo by Rita)
Per: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Santuario_de_Chimayo
Bernardo Abeyta built a small chapel on the present site around 1810. By 1816 the chapel was replaced by the present church. Pointed caps on the towers and a metal pitched roof (blocking the clerestory) were added ... probably in the 1920s. The "elegant" doors were carved by the 19th-century carpenter Pedro Domínguez.
It receives almost 300,000 visitors per year ... some 30,000 people from all over the world make pilgrimages to the Santuario de Chimayó during Holy Week. Walking is traditional; some pilgrims walk from as far away as Albuquerque, about 90 miles (150 km). Many visitors to the church take a small amount of the "holy dirt", often in hopes of a miraculous cure for themselves or someone who could not make the trip. Formerly, at least, they often ate the dirt. (Likewise pilgrims to the original shrine of Esquipulas eat the supposedly curative clay found there.) Now seekers of cures more commonly rub themselves with the dirt or simply keep it. The Church replaces the dirt in the pocito from the nearby hillsides, sometimes more than once a day, for a total of about 25 or 30 tons a year.A couple of Earthship Biotecture houses near Taos, New Mexico.
According to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship
"Earthships are intended to be "off-the-grid ready" homes, with minimal reliance on both public utilities and fossil fuels. Earthships are constructed to use available natural resources, especially energy from the sun."One of the houses in the Earthship Biotecture complex near Taos, New Mexico.
According to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship
"Earthships are intended to be "off-the-grid ready" homes, with minimal reliance on both public utilities and fossil fuels. Earthships are constructed to use available natural resources, especially energy from the sun."