Pueblo Style Roofs

The desert southwest is a landscape of painted skies red rock mesas fragrant piñon pine and earthen hued pueblo style dwellings.

Pueblo style roofs.

Pueblo style architecture seeks to imitate the appearance of traditional adobe construction though more modern materials such as brick or concrete are often substituted. Common features of the pueblo revival style include projecting wooden roof beams or vigas which sometimes serve no structural purpose corbels curved often stylized beam supports and latillas which are peeled branches or strips of wood laid across the tops of vigas to create a foundation usually supporting dirt or clay for a roof. Walls are usually stuccoed and painted in earth tones. From american to gothic revival to pueblo the unique architectural style of a building is composed of specific details and architectural elements that together form the style.

If adobe is not used rounded corners irregular parapets and thick battered walls are used to simulate it. Taos pueblo n m with domed oven in the foreground. The flat roofs and earth toned walls of the pueblo style were inspired by the simple structures of the pueblo indians. This architectural form continued to be used by many pueblo peoples in the early 21st century.