American, b. 1958
Walter Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, CA. Hood earned a Bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture from North Carolina A&T State University in 1981. In 1989 he received both his Master of Landscape and Master of Architecture degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now a professor. In 2013 completed a Master of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
Hood is the recipient of countless awards, including the 2019 Knight Public Spaces Fellowship, 2019 MacArthur Fellowship, 2019 Dorothy Lillian Gish Prize, 2017 Arts and Letters Award in Architecture from the NY American Academy of Arts and Letters, Nomination to the President’s National Council on the Arts, The Goldman Sachs Design Fellowship for the Smithsonian Institute in 2011, and the AIA Award for Collaborative Achievement in the same year. Hood is also the author of numerous publications and has participated in a variety of exhibitions.
Hood is the recipient of countless awards, including the 2019 Knight Public Spaces Fellowship, 2019 MacArthur Fellowship, 2019 Dorothy Lillian Gish Prize, 2017 Arts and Letters Award in Architecture from the NY American Academy of Arts and Letters, Nomination to the President’s National Council on the Arts, The Goldman Sachs Design Fellowship for the Smithsonian Institute in 2011, and the AIA Award for Collaborative Achievement in the same year. Hood is also the author of numerous publications and has participated in a variety of exhibitions.
