Music like J-HOOD

Walter Hood (born 1958, Charlotte, NC) is Professor and former Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and principal of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California. In 2019, Walter Hood was awarded the Macarthur Fellowship, known as the "Genius Grant."

Hood has worked in a variety of settings including architecture, landscape architecture, art, community and urban design, and planning and research.

Hood grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, and has spent more than 20 years living and working in the heart of 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. He went to school at North Carolina A&T State University, receiving a bachelor's degree in Architecture in 1981. He has received both his Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. 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.