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Mexico
Heritage at Risk 2006/2007
MEXICO La pérdida de la arquitectura de adobe en México
Abstract
The component of the built patrimony facing the biggest threat of extinction in Mexico is earthen architecture. This threat is due to the vulnerability of the material and to the lack of interest that people nowadays have in it. Even though this cultural heritage is an architectural typology that has been highly disseminated in this country throughout the centuries, we have witnessed the irreparable loss of hundreds of urban and rural adobe complexes that have been abandoned or intentional
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