Twelve park and public-realm projects from the past decade by Nelson Byrd Woltz show its making of landscapes, new or renewed, with uncommon patience. “We work to tell the truth about what lies within the land, because sustaining the land is sustaining the truth,” writes Thomas Woltz in his opening essay. “It’s essential to reckoning with legacies of indigeniety, subjugation, hate, injustice, violence.” Design, in this conception, isn’t compositional but constitutional; the generating of physical form is not a beginning but follows long periods of research and discovery into ways design will support conservation, culture, a person’s experience of a site, and the knowledge a site offers.

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