Sandra Seth, a second generation New Mexican, has been actively involved in the perseverance of traditional adobe architecture handed down for centuries by our rich multii-cultural history. She has hand-built adobe houses, written about traditional adobe architecture in the book, Adobe! Homes and Interiors of Taos, Santa Fe and the Southwest, Architectural Book Publishing Company, Stamford, CT., and has lectured on the subject. She received her B.A. from UNM, and was awarded the first Certificate in Publishing Technology (computer graphics, print and web publishing) from UNM Taos.
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1969 BA University of New Mexico, majors in English and Art
1998 University of New Mexico, Certificate in Publishing Technology (computer graphics, print and web publishing)
Co-Author of Adobe! Homes and Interiors of Taos, Santa Fe and the Southwest, Architectural Book Publishing Company, Stamford, CT. v Lecturer on Southwest art and architecture at Heard Museum, Phoenix Tour Leader and lecturer on Southwest art and architecture for Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art Forum
Featured in the book, Making Ourselves at Home, Women Builders and Designers, by Janice Goldfrank, Paper Mache Press, Watsonville, CA 1995
Featured in the book Stand Against the Wind, A Biographical Sketchbook of New Mexico Women by Maryann Abkemeier & Laura Robertson, Wahili Enterprises Ltd, Albuquerque, NM 1977
Designer and builder of Adobe homes
Artist in Residence at Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA
Co-Author, photographer and book designer of Finding Refuge-A Safe Place To Land, The Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
Present Working Artist and award winning amateur photographer
Author of Golden Aspens Silver Wings Our Shared Fragile Earth 2025