Here are couple more photos of some of the natural buildings we were around or worked on while in Tlaxcala. One is of a staircase using a juniper tree trunk, and the other is of an adobe wall, with decorative natutral earthen plaster (which, when it includes some of the sap from a cactus pad and is polished, reamains quite water proof).
We also went to visit David Laws, who lives at the end of the Mississippi neighborhood and is trained as in classical Japanese carpentry and joinery. We visited his shop and a job that he is doing in Vancouver, and we saw some very fine, elegant work in the traditional Japanese style. If anyone would like something done in that style, from garden house to a whole house, he is the man to talk to
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