Pueblo Revival Architecture in Sedona

Sedona is known for it's Southwestern architectural styles that fit the beautiful high desert territory. One of the most prevalent and popular styles is Pueblo Revival. It goes by other names, like Sante Fe, Southwest Contemporary and Territorial, but no matter how you label it, it draws its inspiration from the ancient Pueblo structures seen in New Mexico and Arizona built hundreds of year ago. We began to see the revival of the style at the turn of the 20th Century and it became increasingly popular in New Mexico by the 1930's and eventually in Sedona, AZ.

Pueblo style homes seek to imitate the appearance of traditional adobe construction. The building massing is usually stepped with offset faces and roofs are always flat with scuppers to drain water through the parapets. Doors and windows are usually deeply inset from the face of walls and often have wood lintels. The homes often have low courtyard walls and enclosed patios. Common features include the use of projecting wooden roof beams (vigas), rounded corners.Modern construction has replace the use of true adobe construction. Buildings today use materials like brick, concrete, and wood, and Insulated concrete forms (ICF's) to simulate the look of adobe homes. Today walls are usually stuccoed and painted in earth tones that complement the environment.

Here is a glossary of terms related to the Pueblo style.

• Adobe - A building block originally made of mud and straw, and subsequently made of sand and clay used to form the walls of a building.Banco - Built-in benches, often at a porch or near a fire pit or kiva.
• Canales - Water spouts, scuppers or rain troughs that protrude through a parapet wall, normally to drain water that collects on a flat roof.
• Corbel - A supporting timber under a beam or arch. The end of the corbel may be cut square for a stepped appearance or elaborately carved.
• Entrada - The entryway
• Fobon - A fireplace set in a corner
• Hornos - Round earthen outdoor wood burning ovens, used for cooking.
• Kiva - A style of fireplace, normally with a rounded front, placed in the corner of a room.
• Latillas - Small pealed poles used to for a ceiling. These can be made out of pealed Aspen or Pine, Saguaro ribs or ocotillo branches. Latillas are often placed between vigas to form a ceiling.Linte - A crossbeam above a window. In Southwest home they are often wooden beams set into the adobe or stucco wall.
• Nichos - Inset display shelves or "niches" in walls.
• Parapets - Exterior walls above the roof line.
• Portales - Decorative porches, and'or decorative entryways for the main entrance.
• Ramada - Freestanding canopy constructed to create shade, made of upright posts and loose roof of saguaro ribs, native cane, ocotillo branches or other sticks to give shade.
• Saltillo tile - Red and yellow clay floor tile, sometimes octagonal).
• Stucco - A plaster or mud finish originally made with lime, mud and cactus juice for a binder, now usually a cement product.
• Vigas - Traditional pealed log beam supporting the ceiling and roof. They are visible inside and often protrude through the outside walls.
• Zaguan - An entry hall or entry courtyard, sometimes running through the house to an interior courtyard.