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ADOBE LOVE

From 2017 to 2020, Cornerstones conducted adobe making workshops downtown during 4 weekends in May. It’s been a fun project that keeps the tradition of adobe-making alive for locals and tourists. Later, we’ve used the adobes to repair buildings. Most people enjoy participating in the process. Sometimes a little magic occurs. That’s what happened a few years back when our US/ICOMOS intern, Georgina Solano, from El Salvador was helping out at the Palace of the Governors. While she was showing folks what to do, she met a very enthusiastic volunteer named Todd Austin. They soon discovered they had common interests in addition to the mud on their hands. Sure enough, Cornerstones recently celebrated their marriage at our office. We gave a lot of toasts – both to their future happiness and to the future of adobe-making throughout the world.

WELCOME ABOARD TO SUZANNE ALBA
Cornerstones' Newest Board Member

Suzanne Alba
Suzanne, a native Santa Fean whose family arrived and settled in Northern New Mexico over 400 years ago, is proud to contribute to Cornerstones mission to preserve New Mexico’s endangered culture and historic buildings. Youngest daughter of late longtime Cornerstones supporter and board member Elvira Vigil Ogard, Suzanne graduated with a professional degree in Architecture from the University of Oregon with a minor in Art History. After a long career as a partner in an award-winning architectural firm, Suzanne chose to promote New Mexico and its singular culture and history via the tourism and hospitality industry; and now as currently General Manager of Otra Vez de Santa Fe she hosts hundreds of visitors to Santa Fe each year.
Suzanne and her husband have 2 adult children - Sophia Claire who works as a French pastry chef in Chicago and Emory Olin who is an intern architect training to become a design-builder with his father in his architectural/construction office in Santa Fe.