Walter J. Hood

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Walter J. Hood
Walter Hood at Columbia GSAPP - 2016 (cropped).jpg
Hood in 2016
Born1958 (age 65–66)
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Education North Carolina A&T State University (BLA)
University of California, Berkeley (MLA; MArch)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA)
Occupation(s)Designer, artist, academic administrator, educator, researcher
Known forLandscape architecture, installation art
Awards American Academy in Rome (2017),
MacArthur Fellowship (2019) [1]
Website www.hooddesignstudio.com

Walter J. Hood (born 1958), is an American designer, artist, academic administrator, and educator. He is the former chair of landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, [2] and principal of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California. Hood has worked in a variety of settings including architecture, landscape architecture, visual art, community leadership, urban design, and in planning and research. He has spent more than 20 years living in Oakland, California. He draws on his strong connection to the Black community in his work. He has chosen to work almost exclusively in the public realm and urban environments. [3]

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Early life and education

Walter J. Hood was born in 1958 in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he also grew up. [4]

He attended North Carolina A&T State University, receiving a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture in 1981.[ citation needed ] He has received both his Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989.[ citation needed ] He also received his Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013 in studio arts and sculpture, exploring the role of sculpture and urbanism.

Career

Hood established Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California, in 1992.[ citation needed ] Hood's work spans the range from local, community-based projects—such as Splash Pad Park, a converted traffic island alongside Interstate 580 in Oakland, California [5] —to large-scale garden designs like the grounds for the new M. H. de Young Museum in San Francisco with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron (2005). Hood's public spaces embrace the essence of urban environments and their links to urban redevelopment and neighborhood revitalization. [6] He is designing the landscape for the Autry National Center Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, designing an archeological garden within the context of the South Lawn Project at the University of Virginia, and developing a set of monuments and markers for a six-mile waterfront trail in Oakland, California.

Hood's published monographs Urban Diaries (Spacemaker Press, 1997) and Blues & Jazz Landscape Improvisations (Poltroon Press, 1993) illustrate his approach to the design of urban landscapes. These works won an ASLA Research award in 1996. His essay "Macon Memories" is included in Sites of Memory: Perspectives on Architecture and Race (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001).

Hood won an international design competition in 2010 for the Solar Strand project—a quarter-mile solar-panel array on the University at Buffalo's North Campus, financed by the New York Power Authority. [7] [8] [9]

In 2013, Hood served as one of six selection committee members for the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence. [10]

In 2014, Hood was commissioned by the Metro Nashville Arts Commission to create Witness Walls, a commemorative sculpture celebrating Nashville's civil rights history during the 1950s and 1960s. [11] [12] A public dedication event for the project, Nashville's first civil-rights inspired public art, was held April 21, 2017. [13]

Awards and recognition

In 1997, Hood was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome in Landscape Architecture. [14] His work was featured in the 2006 exhibit "The Good Life: New Public Spaces for Recreation", at the Van Alen Institute in New York. [15] Hood was the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Cooper–Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Design, [16] [17] and has exhibited and lectured on his professional projects and theoretical works nationally and abroad. [18] [19] [20]

In 2018, The USC School of Architecture's American Academy in China (AAC) selected Hood as that year's research fellow. Hood is to design an installation to be executed using only local artisans and materials in Shanghai and Los Angeles; he will also give lectures in both cities. [21]

Projects

Awards

Publications

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References

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  3. ↑ Brown, Patricia (21 March 2004). "He Measures Oakland's Beat, And Parks Bloom in Return". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  4. ↑ Blum, Andrew (1 August 2005). "The Peace Maker". Metropolis. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
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  6. ↑ "Spring Lecture Series" (PDF). University of Maryland, Landscape Architecture Program. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-06-23. Retrieved 2010-12-10.
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  12. ↑ Cass, Michael (26 June 2014). "Artist talks about his vision for civil rights piece". The Tennessean. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  13. ↑ Bliss, Jessica (18 April 2017). "The story that inspired Nashville's first civil rights public art". The Tennessean. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  14. ↑ "Fellows – Affiliated Fellows – Residents 1990–2010". American Academy in Rome. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
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