Landscape designer and public artist Walter Hood founded Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California, in 1992 after earning an MLA and M.Arch. from the University of California at Berkeley. Hood has received numerous honors, and last year was named a MacArthur Fellow. He spoke to RECORD’s editor-in-chief, Cathleen McGuigan, about his forthcoming book, Black Landscapes Matter (co-edited with Grace Mitchell Tada), and how his design work increasingly is inspired by his identity as a Black man and by history.