Nubian Vault Workshop

Do not forget to sign up to secure your place. On website adobealliance.org you'll find news on the November 11, 2010, workshop where you will learn to build by hand a high Nubian vault to roof a space without the need for any wood. No previous experience required under the tutelage of instructor Stevan de la Rosa. In november the fringes of the Chihuahuan Desert are in bloom in this Big Bend country. Swan House on Casa Piedra Road in Presidio, Texas, is reachable by scenic routes only.

MOMA/Architecture/new book

SMALL SCALE BIG CHANGE: New Architectures of Social Engagement, by Andres Lepik, intro Barry Bergdoll. Adobe Alliance is honored to be described immediately after a short essay on Hassan Fathy, our mentor. See page 14, the paragraph which begins "Activist Simone Swan..."

Friends committed to solving the solution to the global need for healthy low-cost housing are everywhere in the book: the late Bernard Rudofsky and Donald Judd; Jean Dethier, Ronald Rael, and more. Discovering Diebedo Francis Kere in this book sparks the desire to walk through his elegant mud brick work in Burkina Faso.