The african ancestors garden History and memory at the international african american museum - Walter Hood - Monacelli Press - relié - Beau livre

‘[Walter Hood is] one of the great American landscape artists.’ - Former President Joseph R. Biden Walter Hood is a MacArthur Fellow and Chair of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and Urban Design at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his designs for institutions are the gardens of the de Young Museum in San Francisco and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, and the plaza of the Broad Museum in Los Angeles. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award. Dr. Tonya M. Matthews is the President and CEO of the International African American Museum. Bernard E. Powers, Jr. is founding director of the Center for the Study of Slavery at the College of Charleston. Dell Upton is Distinguished Research Professor of Architectural History in the Department of Art History at UCLA. Louise Bernard is Director of the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center.