Thursday, November 10th 2016. 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Location: Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 715 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM 87505
Cost: Member $5; Not-yet-member $10
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The design and construction of open space in New Mexican towns and cities for the past ten to eleven centuries have been key components of settlements and developing pueblo nations. This lecture will illustrate several forms and characteristics of New Mexican landscape architecture that remain important even in our own time. Baker Morrow will touch on aspects of the development of New Mexican gardens and human-made landscapes since the ninth century AD.
Baker H. Morrow, FASLA, has been a principal of Morrow Reardon Wilkinson Miller, Ltd., Landscape Architects, for the past 43 years. His office has earned over 125 design awards and citations since 1980. The Journal Center, the Citywide Prototype Median Landscapes, and the Big I in Albuquerque are among the notable projects of his firm, as well as Zuhl Library at NMSU and the renovations of Santa Fe Plaza and downtown Eunice and Artesia, New Mexico.
Mr. Morrow is the founder of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program at UNM’s School of Architecture and Planning, where he currently serves as the University’s first Professor of Practice. A third-generation New Mexican, he is the author of Best Plants for New Mexico Gardens and Landscapes and the co-editor of Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest. His most recent book is Cabeza de Vaca’s The South American Expeditions, 1540-1545, for which he was the translator.
In 2001, Mr. Morrow became the first native New Mexican to be elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He was the recipient of the Stewart Udall Cultural Landscape Preservation Award from the New Mexico Heritage Preservation Alliance in 2008, and the Zia Award of the UNM Alumni Association in 2012 for distinguished professional achievement.