17 Walter Hood, Black landscapes matter / Oakland
A conversation with Walter Hood about Black landscapes matter, difference, sameness postcolonial, and cultural aspects of design.
Join Eduardo Guerrero, urban designer based in Tucson, as he talks with urban idealists and designers about their work and stories. Listen in as he engages these relevant thinkers in reflections and conversations about the environment and culture.
17 Walter Hood, Black landscapes matter / Oakland
Oakland soundscapes by Eduardo Guerrero.
Biography:
Walter Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, CA. He is also a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and lectures on professional and theoretical projects nationally and internationally.
He is a recipient of the 2017 Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, 2019 Knight Public Spaces Fellowship, 2019 MacArthur Fellowship, 2019 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, and the 2021 recipient of the Architectural League’s President’s Medal award.
Source: https://www.hooddesignstudio.com/team
Education:
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. North Carolina A&T State University. 1981.
Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture. The University of California, Berkeley. 1989.
Master of Fine Arts. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 2013.
Studio arts and sculpture, exploring the role of sculpture and urbanism.
Workplace: Hood Design Studio, Oakland, California.
Current city: Oakland
Web: https://www.hooddesignstudio.com/
Websites of interest:
TED talk: How urban spaces can preserve history and build community.
https://www.ted.com/talks/walter_hood_how_urban_spaces_can_preserve_history_and_build_community?subtitle=en
GSD, Harvard
https://aadn.gsd.harvard.edu/people/walter-hood/
Instagram: Hood Design Studio
https://www.instagram.com/hooddesignstudio/?hl=en
Publications:
_Black Landscapes Matter. Edited by Walter Hood and Grace Mitchell Tada.
University of Virginia Press (December 9, 2020)
Buy the book here:
https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5389/
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Landscapes-Matter-Walter-Hood/dp/0813944864
ASLA, award of excellence
https://www.asla.org/2021awards/2794.html
_Urban Diaries. Spacemaker Press, 1997.
_Blues & Jazz Landscape Improvisations. Poltroon Press, 1993.
Key words:
black lives matter, black landscapes matter, urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, postcolonial, heritage, memory, race, stewardship, art, culpture, California, Oakland, Berkeley, Community Whisperer
Episode production:
Soundscapes by Eduardo Guerrero.
Theme music by Sebastian Carreras ONDO, uno. Used with permission.
Art direction by estudiocinco.cl
Edition by sombraurbana.com
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August ‘24