Southwest How to Go

How to Go

  • Contact David G. Saile as soon as possible at 513.556-3415 or david.saile@uc.edu
  • Check your resources. 2009 will cost approximately $2650.00 per person (which includes accommodation/rent, travel in the Southwest, lectures, entrance fees, and workshops).
  • Check your course requirements with Ann Black or Jerry Larson and your co-op arrangements with Vasso Apostolides or Jim Howell.

When accepted for Southwest Program:

  • Prepare Independent Study proposal prior to travel
  • Check travel options to Tucson (arrival March 28th or 29th) and leaving from Albuquerque (June 6th or 7th)
  • Pay deposit by September 25, 2008. $500.00 to David Saile (checks made out to The University of Cincinnati)

Supplies

For studio you need an 11"x14" bound skechbook with at least 100 pages, drawing pens, markers, pencils and scale (no drawing boards or drafting equipment). For other classes you need a bound 8 1/2"x11" sketch notebook, some plain paper and file folders. A camera and a laptop will be useful but not essential.

Travel supplies should include spartan toiletries and a small back or shoulder pack. We recommend seven changes of clothing including one smarter outfit (for official or celebratory events). You will need comfortable walking shoes and we recommend a pair of lightweight hiking boots which also may be useful in Tucson, Taos and Albuquerque. Raingear should be lightweight (and may only be essential occasionally). Outfits should be suitable for desert warmth (perhaps 95 degrees F in Tucson) and for plateau cold (perhaps 25 degrees F in Flagstaff at night). Day to night temperature changes in the Southwest are often 30 degrees F and can be more than 40 degrees F.

It will be convenient if all your clothes and personal equipment can fit in a duffel bag and a small backpack. We will travel often and be on the road for the two weeks in the middle of the quarter in small vans or cars so we cannot accommodate full wardrobes. We will have access, at least every three days, to laundry/laundromat facilities.

We will give you additional advice about camping but you should plan on having a sleeping bag (to tolerate 20 degrees F) and having (or having access to) a lightweight three-season tent. It will be preferable to have a tent for every two or three students if this can be arranged. We will use the tents for occasional nights or trips from our bases and quite frequently on the travel from Tucson to Taos.

2009 Timetable

We will be in Tucson, associated with the School of Architecture, University of Arizona, March 30 - April 26. We tour important sites, significant contemporary, historic and ancient works, museums and institutions and spectacular desert, intermountain and Colorado Plateau landscapes, April 27 - May 10. Our visits include Florence, Phoenix, Prescott, Flagstaff, Wupatki, the Hopi mesas, Ganado, Canyon de Chelly, Zuni, Chaco Canyon, Durango and the Mesa Verde on our way to Taos, New Mexico. This trip involves 8 nights camping.

We spend May 10 - 24 in Taos and the final two weeks, May 25 - June 5 in Albuquerque on the campus of the University of New Mexico. During our studies at the three bases in Tucson, Taos and Albuquerque we will also be making shorter field trips to important local sites and works. There will be a Memorial Day vacation May 25.