Title: Owner-Built Adobe House
By: Duane Newcomb

Paperback: 174 pages
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press; Reprint edition (15 Jun 2001)
Language English
ISBN: 0826323235

Duane Newcomb takes you through every step of the process, from selecting a site, obtaining building permits (USA), drawing plans, excavating, and making bricks to finishing the interior. This book details every aspect of various types of adobe houses and includes information on plumbing, electricity, heating and cooling, fireplaces, flooring, and the framing of windows, doors, and roofs. With sixty-six detailed drawings and photographs accompanying the instructions, this book is the basic manual in the field and is invaluable to both the novice and expert homebuilder.

Title: Adobe Houses for Today: Flexible Plans for Your Adobe Home
By: Laura Sanchez and Alex Sanchez (Here's one of their adobe home designs)

Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Sunstone Press (Oct 2001)
Language English
ISBN: 0865343209

Features 12 plans for compact, beautifully-proportioned adobe homes in modern and traditional styles. Yet the book offers much more. The richly illustrated text shows how the basic houses, designed for today's smaller families, can be as flexible as a set of building blocks. Intriguing drawings demonstrate how readers can expand and adapt the plans to fit their own budgets, family sizes, style preferences, and building sites.

Title: Simone Swan: Adobe Building
By: Dennis Dollens

Paperback: 72 pages
Publisher: Lumen Books/Sites Books (April 2006)
Language English
ISBN: 0930829581

In the late 1990s, Simone established the Adobe Alliance in the Big Bend area of West Texas in order to realize low-cost housing in the border region. The Alliance has since constructed houses that demonstrate the innovative use of earthen materials to create a new building standard for environmentally compatible, sustainable homes and communities.