There are several books on domestic Mexican architecture that are well worth having but it is usually hard to find good copies of them because they were published over 60 years ago.

In the early 1960s, Verna and Warren Shipway wrote two books on traditional Mexican domestic architecture which were a series of black & white photographs accompanied by measured drawings of various details of the houses that they documented. The Mexican House – Old and New, was the result of years investigating the various influences on the typical Mexican house.

The follow-up book, Mexican Interiors, dealt more with furniture and other furnishings but includes architectural elements as well and follows the same layout of photos layered with measured drawings.

Both books have been republished by Hennesey & Ingalls, the architectural bookstore in downotown Los Angeles, California, in the same format as the 1960s editions. These are signature bound hardcover books and won’t fall apart like soft cover books do.

Another book done in the same style from 1930 is Early Mexican Houses: A Book Of Photographs And Measured Drawings. This book was created by G. Richard Garrison and George Rusty, two young architects in the late 1920s who spent five years documenting domestic Mexican homes when they found that there was very little available literature on the subject.

This book has also been reprinted, although as far as I know, new copies are only available in a sofcover version.