Albert Parra has been working with adobe since he was nine years old. Raised by his great-grandmother in Old Town Albuquerque, New Mexico, he learned his trade from old-time Hispanic craftsmen. Watch GOOD WORK: MASTERS OF THE BUILDING ARTS on PBS beginning October 2018 (check local listings). Photo by Paul Wagner
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Meet Albert Parra, Hispanic Adobe Builder
(construction equipment moving) This building is called a morada and it's a chapter house of the Penitente community. The Penitentes are the oldest... Surviving... fraternity from the old world in the new world. There's 80 moradas within the state of New Mexico and Southern Colorado. 80 chapter houses. And every one takes care of their morada in their own way. (solemn singing) Right there. (solemn singing)
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