The African Ancestors Garden
History and Memory at the International African American Museum
$76.24
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
5 November 2024
Summary
The African Ancestors Garden is the first book to be published in conjunction with the International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, South Carolina. The museum’s landscape design by Hood Design Studio, led by award-winning Walter Hood, exemplifies the museum’s mission to reflect on its location at Gadsden’s Wharf, the point at which nearly half of all enslaved Africans arrived in North America.
With contributions by figures critical to the realization of the Int…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781580935845 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1580935842 |
| Author: | Walter Hood, Dr. Tonya M. Matthews, Dell Upton, Louise Bernard, Bernard E. Powers, Jr. |
| Publisher: | Monacelli Press |
| Imprint: | Monacelli Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 5 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 1.65kg |
| Dimensions: | 266mm x 215mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
‘[A] powerful book.’ – Library Journal
‘Offers a portal for interrogating the complex layers of history and the possibility of communal commemoration.’ – Landscape Architecture Magazine
About The Author
Walter Hood
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.
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