Hybrid Adobe News

Our Press Releases and Links to Coverage about Hybrid Adobe

Sustainable Building workshop, Earth Day, April 19 at UCSC
This Earth Day please join Philip Mirkin for the first HYBRID ADOBE WORKSHOP in two years, to be held Saturday, April 19th on the campus of UCSC. You will learn to build inexpensive sustainable housing at this fun, one-day, hands-on workshop. We will construct a small building and/or sculptural bench, and more. Please join us! Read more in the press release which contains the vital information. Please download this flyer that can also be printed and distributed. Please forward this announcement to friends, colleagues, organizations, the media and/or list-serves.
Posted: April 4, 2014

Sustainable Building Joins Sustainable Travel
A unique program offers the chance to explore the magnificent Southwest while learning new techniques of Earth friendly building on an actual housing project. A hands-on workshop happens September 18-19. Work trades and internships are available and include travel adventures. At our travel basecamp in the Four Corners you'll learn how to build with Hybrid Adobe and papercrete and also enjoy adventures to National Parks and wilderness areas nearby as we combine 15 years of experience in adventure travel and sustainable building into a new concept in outdoors learning. Some work exchange may be available. Read the Press Release or contact Philip Mirkin directly for more details.
Posted: August 23, 2004

HybridAdobe.com Now Part of Green Building Webrings
We recently joined three webrings that focus on green building techniques. Alternative Building Techniques & Construction is comprised of a group of websites providing information on alternative building materials, techniques, and processes. Participating sites also include coverage of strawbale, adobe, rammed earth, cordwood, log, post & beam, stone, concrete domes, earth ships and now Hybrid Adobe. Building with Earth is comprised of a group of websites that focus on adobe, cob, earth bags, earthships, rammed earth, papercrete, and earth plaster over strawbale. The Eco-Build Web Ring, is devoted to research and information groups dedicated to improvement of the built environment in balance with the natural environment.
Posted: June 11, 2004

Sustainable Building Work Exchange Programs in Colorado
Later this summer, you are welcome to come to the beautiful Four Corners Region of the American Southwest and learn how to build with Hybrid Adobe. You will work on an actual house building project and experimental building designs. We are offering flexible multi-day programs that will also cover many applications of this revolutionary material. This is our sixth year of work exchange programs, and our 17th year offering wilderness and humanitarian aid relief journeys. The schedule is still being finalized. For details, please contact Philip Mirkin.
Posted: May 28, 2004

Hazlitt Krog to lead Hybrid Adobe Seminar at Solfest 2004
Hazlitt Krog, Philip Mirkin's co-author on The Hybrid Adobe Handbook will be giving a Hybrid Adobe seminar at at the Solfest, August 21 & 22, 2004. The schedule is still being finalized. For details, please contact Hazlitt Krog .
Posted: May 27, 2004

The Hybrid Adobe Handbook released
The first general release edition of The Hybrid Adobe Handbook is now available. Co-authored by Philip Mirkin and Hazlitt Krog, this 52 page illustrated book explains everything the first-time Hybrid Adobe experimenter needs to know to get started with this revolutionary building material. Read more.
Posted: May 6, 2004

Philip Mirkin Leads Workshop at the Solar Living Institue
The final day of the 5-Day Natural Building Intensive, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM on May 7, 2004 at the Real Goods Solar Living Center, Hopland, CA will be led by Philip Mirkin. Hazlitt Krog will assist. Copies of The Hybrid Adobe Handbook will be available for purchase.
Posted: April 4, 2004

Philip Mirkin Leads Workshop at Whitman College
Philip Mirkin will lead a workshop on Hybrid Adobe at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington on November 7, 2003. The following day on November 8, Philip will be keynote speaker for Native American Awareness Month, speaking about native spirituality, culture, and architecture.
Posted: October 1, 2003

Hazlitt Krog speaks at Solfest Hybrid Adobe Workshop
Hazlitt Krog, Philip Mirkin's co-author on the Hybrid Adobe Handbook will be giving a Hybrid Adobe workshop at 3:00 PM on Saturday, August 23 at the Solfest. A few early-release copies of The Hybrid Adobe Handbook will be available at a discounted price.
Posted: July 4, 2003

Sustainable Building Work Exchange Programs in Colorado
This summer and autumn come to the beautiful Four Corners Region of the American Southwest and learn how to build with Hybrid Adobe. You will work on an actual house building project and new experimental building designs. We are offering three-day to three-week long programs that will cover many applications of this revolutionary material. This is our fifth year of work exchange programs, and our 16th year offering wilderness and humanitarian aid relief journeys. Read the press release.
Posted: May 14, 2003

Quickdome Project Photo Galleries
Two new photo galleries have been added to the site: Quickdome Project Process and How To Make Hybrid Adobe. Captions and individual photo credits will be added as time allows.
Posted: May 14, 2003

Submit Your Hybrid Adobe Testimonials
A Testimonials page has been added to the site with quotes from workshop participants, builders, and sculptors. Please send in your quotes and/or photos for us to post!
Posted: May 10, 2003

Eleusis Quickdome Workshop Continues for Third Week
We are reprising our weekend workshop to finish the quickdome project at Eleusis, near Middletown, California (directions). Pre-registration required. This hands-on workshop will teach Hybrid Adobe techniques and will offer less talk and more hands-on building experience. Come enjoy the satisfaction of completing the shell of the dome with us. Workshop runs two days on Saturday, May 10 & Sunday, May 11. Overnight camping is included. Read the press release. View photos of quickdome building progress by heartLove!
Posted: May 8, 2003

Eleusis Quickdome Workshop Update
If you are attending the Workshop at Eleusis this weekend, Saturday, May 3 & Sunday, May 4, then please read and print the directions and details page. About 50 are expected, so pre-registration is required. Read the press release.
Posted: May 1, 2003

Hybrid Adobe Workshop at the Solar Living Center
On Sunday, May 18th at the Solar Living Center (home of Real Goods), builder Philip Mirkin will lead a one day seminar and hands-on workshop that teaches Hybrid Adobe techniques, construction, and other uses. The workshop will cover Hybrid Adobe applications for sculpture, garden, insulating, fireproofing, and home remodeling. The class has over 18 people currently booked, so register early. Read the press release
Posted: April 24, 2003

Eleusis Quickdome Workshop
Join members of progressive community Eleusis, on their beautiful 920-acre preserve in Lake County, Northern California, as we build an experimental Quick Dome project. This hands-on workshop will teach Hybrid Adobe techniques. Workshop runs two days on Saturday, May 3 & Sunday, May 4. Overnight camping is included. Read the press release
Posted: April 18, 2003

Puerto Rico Workshop
The workshop in Puerto Rico was our largest workshop so far. Over 50 people came including three university professors and six architects. Several building projects using Hybrid Adobe are now underway in Puerto Rico. Architects recieved five AIA continuing education credits for participation and completion of the workshop. The cover photo of The Hybrid Adobe Handbook shows one of the completed projects, a Hybrid Adobe stairway that replaced a slippery mud path down a hillside leading to the building site.
Posted: March 1, 2003

Volunteers Work Together to Add Hybrid Adobe to Navajo Health Clinic
Volunteers from several states joined hands to add Hybrid Adobe plaster and mortar to an alternative health clinic constructed of fibrecrete on the Navajo Reservation near Wheatfields, AZ. This health clinic offers traditional native medicine at the site of the Sundance grounds. A traditional sweat lodge ceremony was offered by the Sundance leaders to the volunteers as a thank you for their assistance.
Posted: December 1, 2002

Solar Living Institute Workshop
Philip Mirkin gives Hybrid Adobe building seminar and hands-on workshop at the Real Goods Solar Living Institute in Hopland, California on September 7, 2002.
Posted: August 1, 2002

SolFest 2002 Workshop
Philip speaks at the Real Goods Solar Living Institute's annual SolFest 2002 festival in Hopland, California on August 24, 2002.
Posted: June 20, 2002

Durango Workshop
In cooperation with the Southwest Natural Builders Guild, hands-on workshop at Jock's Farm in Durango, Colorado on July 13-14, 2002.
Posted: June 2, 2002

Lost Valley Workshop
Hands-on workshop near Eugene, Oregon at Lost Valley Educational Center on June 7-9, 2002. This will be the first of an ongoing series of workshops on papercrete and Hybrid Adobe at Lost Valley. Read the press release.
Posted: May 15, 2002

Bay Area Seminar and Workshop
Hybrid Adobe seminar and workshop in San Francisco and San Anselmo on April 27 and 28, 2002. Read the press release.
Posted: April 12, 2002

Cortez Journal Interviews Mirkin
Cortez Journal Online interview of Philip Mirkin. Read the article.
Posted: December 1 , 2001