Sara Zewde is founding principal of Studio Zewde, a Harlem-based design studio with a portfolio spanning landscape architecture, urbanism, and public art. For a major landscape project at Dia Beacon, the Dia Art Foundation’s campus in upstate New York, the studio drew inspiration from the impressions of time on the land that now hosts the museum in the Hudson River Valley. Transforming the eight-acre lawn to the south of the building, the design introduces sculptural landforms to channel water and native meadows that act as basins, protecting the museum from river backflow during storms. With winding paths that follow the pattern of water as it moves through the floodplain, and that gesture to the site’s significance as a former crossing point for the Lenape people, the studio’s design strategies both honor the site’s history and equip it for more intense and frequent flooding in the future.