Workshop Registration and Lodging

Registration: 

Adobe Alliance holds registrations with a deposit of $200 per workshop when received at least 6 weeks before workshop commences. The deposit is $350 thereafter. The early deposit of $200 to the non-profit Adobe Alliance, Inc., will allow us to reserve a slot for each student, thus helping to cover in advance the expenses of preparatory work. Please send cheques made out to Adobe Alliance, Inc., 632 Avenida Celaya, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87506.

Fees:

Workshop fees for students run $150 a day for long weekends, $500 a week, and can be negotiated personally according to length of time spent learning hands-on at Swan House in Presidio, Texas. 

Funds for scholarships will have to be raised.

Workshops take place at the Adobe Alliance, Swan House, 1 Casa Piedra Road, Presidio, Texas 79845.

Interns are expected to arrive a week before the workshop to help with preparations.  The registration fee is $100 before January 29, they chip in for their food.

Directions:

South from Marfa, Texas, on 67. Driving into Presidio you will cross a long bridge over shallow Cibolo creek, you turn left onto 170 east which meanders through presidio, sometimes at unexpected absurd right angles. Stay on this paved road for 9 miles, then turn left onto Casa Piedra dirt road. 1.5 miles up the mesa is the swan house/ adobe lab for Adobe Alliance on the right. Welcome!

Presidio has a private airport. Also it is 3 hours by bus from Chihuahua airport, 4 hours from El Paso and Midland, Texas, airports.

Lodgings:

In Presidio are two motels, Three Palms (#432-229 3211) and Riata Inn (#432-229-2528.) Rooms in the former tend to smell of chemicals.

Also right across the bridge in Ojinaga, Mexico, is a choice of clean, inexpensive motels, Cabañas El Camino (#011-52-626-453-4699,) Hotel Karike (#011-52-626-453-0368) and Hotel Valentino’s (#011-52-626-453-2677.) Well-appointed apartments with 2-3 bedrooms can be rented very inexpensively, like for $140 a month.

There is camping space on my land but water is rationed.

Meals:

Luncheon will be catered for about $10 a person or one of us volunteers to cook for $3 lunch and $5 dinner each. Often we all buy food and prepare it for outdoor meals, depending on the size of the group and weather permitting. In general everything works out: work sessions, discussions, transportation, lodging and meals.

Comforts:

  1. Bring serious sun protection , work gloves, heavy shoes, a bucket, plus your own drinking water.
  2. There is a great view from the privy down the bluff to the east (sorry! no flushing indoors lest we overburden and even drain the 12 batteries which provide electricity that pumps water via the 24-volt solar system.)
  3. You may sleep on the deck on your mattress and in your bag, weather permitting (March hovers between 90 degrees at 1pm and 60 at 7 am.)
  4. Do not lean over to pet my dog, Hassan Fatima, if you are wearing a gimme cap or a large hat; she feels attacked.
  5. Feel free to bring your dog.
  6. Required reading: Architecture For The Poor, Hassan Fathy, U. of Chicago Press, also sold in Mexico in Spanish, in Japan in Japanese and in Brasil in Portuguese.
  7. We will arrange car-pooling to distant Presidio by phone or e-mail during the last week before this work session.