Instructor: Walter Hood

Walter Hood
 Walter Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, CA. Hood is a former professor and chair 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, 2021 Architectural League's President's Medal award, 2024 Vincent Scully Prize, and most recently the 2025 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.

Classes by this instructor


27th Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series: All Three Sessions

The 27th Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series welcomes three outstanding professionals—NYBG's very-own Todd Forrest, award-winning landscape architects Walter Hood, and Mikyoung Kim—to present innovative landscapes that enhance quality of life and satisfy our innate desires for nature and community.
262LEC801AO 09/16 Tu 6:30pm-7:30pm Forrest
Hood
Kim
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Walter Hood: Cultural Storytelling Through Design

MacArthur 'Genius' Grant-winner Walter Hood creates green spaces that resonate with and enrich the lives of residents while also honoring communal histories. As founder and creative director of Oakland-based firm, Hood Design Studio, he has transformed a variety of areas—from more...
262LEC801CO 10/07 Tu 6:30pm-7:30pm Hood
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