This week, a lecture on designing African-American monuments with Walter Hood,

a professor and former chair of landscape architecture at the University of California.

He talks about his landscape plans for a new African-American History Museum in Charleston, South Carolina.

My ancestors have been isolated, excluded, partition, and even given duplicated landscapes.

There's been this continuum in America to kind of build a kind of a richness of heritage.

And we've really been excluded from a lot of these things.

This is part of a class co-taught by former Charleston, South Carolina Mayor Joseph Riley

and Professor Kerry Taylor at the Citadel Military College. More in a moment.

Ladies and gentlemen, you're in for another special treat today, another world-class presenter, Walter Cood.

Walter is the distinguished professor of landscape architecture at the University of California at Berkeley.

He was formerly the chair of that department.

Among the many distinctions and awards that Walter has received

is the prize-Macartha Fellowship Genius Grant Award

and it's hard to get it all in that he received in 2019.

Walter has been acclaimed for his design work

in the United States and abroad.

Interesting for us here in Charleston,

Walter was selected by Splato Festival USA

to design exhibits for the festival over the years.

I also had the great pleasure of working with Walter

through the Mears Institute on City Design.

In the 21 and a half years of working on the International African American Museum,

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