ENVD 4100 and 4340 Studios Take Trip to Santa Fe
The weekend of September 7-9, Neal Evers’ 4100 architecture studio and Siobhan Brooks’ 4340 landscape architecture studio traveled to Santa Fe to visit , an immersive art experience produced by the artists’ collective and Game of Thrones creator George RR Martin. This semester they are lightly integrating and overlapping to design the proposed 90,000 square foot Meow Wolf coming to Denver in 2020. While in Santa Fe, they met with Meow Wolf’s Design Director Anthony Guida, to discuss Meow Wolf’s history, their creative process and plans for the Denver expansion. Students spent up to five hours in the exhibit exploring the underlying narrative, as well as the complex layout of “portals” that compose the exhibit.
After exploring Meow Wolf, students had the opportunity to visit , which was designed by in New York. This gave students a sharply contrasting museum experience.
Other visits included a local multidisciplinary design firm called . Kenneth Francis, one of Surrounding’s principals provided the students a tour of the office and the nearby Railyards park, which was designed by Ken Smith. Before heading back to Boulder, the students toured St. John’s College, which is listed as a site, because its master plan was developed by landscape architect and EDAW founder Garrett Eckbo.