C. M. MAYO
Author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, etc.

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C.M. Mayo reading live for PEN San Miguel in the Teatro Angela Peralta, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, on January 29, 2013. After a brief consideration of literary travel writing in the digital age, Mayo reads from her article in the winter 2013 issue of Cenizo Journal, "A Visit to Swan House," about the Presidio, Texas teaching house of adobe visionary Simone Swan, which features Nubian vaults, contructed by means of an ancient technique rescued by Swan's mentor, the renowned Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy.

Read the complete article, orginally published in Cenizo Journal, here.

Visit the Adobe Alliance webpage for more information about Swan House and photographs.

View a brief video of Casa Piedra Road (a little ways north of Swan House; does not show the house)

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"When Simone Swan was living in New York, a house with two courtyards came to her in a dream. And it seemed like a dream to me that, less than a year after I'd first glimpsed Swan House from the road, I was sitting with its owner in the Nubian vault that was the living room, the shell high above us aglow with the orange light of morning..."
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Podomatic + iTunes + Transcript
(APPROX 50 MINUTES)
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C.M. Mayo reading live for PEN San Miguel in the Teatro Angela Peralta, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, on January 29, 2013. After a brief consideration of literary travel writing in the digital age, Mayo reads from her article in the winter 2013 issue of Cenizo Journal, "A Visit to Swan House," about the Presidio, Texas teaching house of adobe visionary Simone Swan, which features Nubian vaults, contructed by means of an ancient technique rescued by Swan's mentor, the renowned Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy.

Read the complete article, orginally published in Cenizo Journal, here.

Visit the Adobe Alliance webpage for more information about Swan House and photographs.

View a brief video of Casa Piedra Road (a little ways north of Swan House; does not show the house)

. 

Your comments are always welcome




"When Simone Swan was living in New York, a house with two courtyards came to her in a dream. And it seemed like a dream to me that, less than a year after I'd first glimpsed Swan House from the road, I was sitting with its owner in the Nubian vault that was the living room, the shell high above us aglow with the orange light of morning..."