Adobe
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Adobe (from Spanish: mud brick, from Arabic) is a building material made from earth and often organic material. Most adobe buildings are similar to cob and rammed earth buildings. Adobe is among the earliest building materials, and is used throughout the world.
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See also
- Cob (building)
- Compressed earth block
- Earth structure
- Hassan Fathy
- Mudbrick
- Qalat (fortress)
- Rammed earth
- San Xavier del Bac
- Sod house
- Super Adobe
- Wattle and daub
- Cas di torto
- Monterey Colonial architecture used adobe walls
- Ctesiphon Arch in Iraq is the largest mud brick arch in the world built beginning in 540 AD
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