Garrett Eckbo was a landscape architect and head of the Landscape Architecture Department at UC Berkeley. Born in 1910 in Cooperstown, New York, he and his mother relocated to Alameda after his parents divorced. Eckbo graduated Cal with a B.S. in landscape architecture in 1935 and entered Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. After he received his MLA degree in 1938, Eckbo returned to California to work in the San Francisco Office of the Farm Security Administration, where he designed camps for the migrant agricultural workers. He also served as the chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture at UC Berkeley. In this interview, Eckbo discusses his family background, landscape design studies at UC Berkeley, involvement with the Farm Security Administration, and his membership in Telesis, a group of architects from UC Berkeley. This interview is part of a group of interviews with the founding members of Telesis.