Walter J. Hood

Walter J. Hood (born 1958) nyɛla  Americanima nuchee ni baŋda mini shikuru baŋda. O nyɛla ʒiba kuro zaŋ n-ti landscape architecture din be University of California, Berkeley, mini "principal" kuro zaŋ n-ti Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California.  

 Piligu biɛhigu Early life and education 
Walter J. Hood nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1958 tiŋ yuli booni Charlotte, North Carolina ni ka o zoogi.

 Projects 

EPACenter Arts site design, East Palo Alto, California, 2019–ongoing
Witness Walls, public art installation, Nashville, Tennessee, 2017
International African American Museum Landscape Design, Charleston, South Carolina, 2013–present
Foster Homestead and Burial Ground, South Lawn, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2008
Coleman Avenue Gateway, San Jose International Airport, San Jose Public Art Program, San Jose, California, 2007
West Oakland Historic Train Depot Plaza, Oakland, California, 2008
Phillip Lifeways Plan, Charleston, South Carolina, Spoleto Art Program, 2006
Autry National Center Southwest Museum Landscape, Los Angeles, California, 2008
East Bay Waterfront Trail, Oakland, California, with EDAW and Associates, City of Oakland, Oakland, California, 2002–
M. H. de Young Museum Landscape Design, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, 2005; with Herzog & de Meuron Architects
Lion Creek Crossing Park, Oakland, California, EBALC, 2006
Macon Yards, Poplar Street, City of Macon, Georgia, 2005
Abraham Lincoln Brigade Memorial, w/ Ann Chamberlain, Embarcadero, San Francisco, California, 2007
Yerba Buena Lane, San Francisco, California; with the Office of Cheryl Barton, 2005
Splash Pad Park Renovation and Streetscape Improvement Project, City of Oakland, Oakland, California 2004

 Awards 
Dorothy and Lillian Gish Award, 2019
MacArthur Fellowship: MacArthur Foundation, 2019
American Academy of Arts and Letters: Arts and Letters Award in Architecture, 2017
University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning: Dean's Medal, 2014
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award for Landscape Design, 2009
Virginia Key Beach Museum Competition, Miami Fl/1st Prize w/Huff and Gooden Architects 2005/Merit Award, ASLA, Northern Chapter
Oakland Waterfront 2005/Top Honor Award, Excellence on the Waterfront
Waterfront Center Award, Oakland Waterfront, October 2004/APWA 2004 Distinguished Project of the Year Award
Splash Pad Park/Mayor's Proclamation, "Walter Hood Day", Pioneering Achievements in Urban Landscape Design, City of Oakland, April 24, 2004/National Award of Honor American Society of Landscape Architecture, 2003
Project: Baldwin Hills Master Plan 2001/Best of the Best, California Park and Recreation Society 2002
Project: Lafayette Square Park/Merit Award, ASLA Southern California Chapter
Project: Baldwin Hills Master Plan 2001/Place Design Award, EDRA/Places, Third Annual Award 1999
Project: Lafayette Square Park. Poplar Street Civic Design Competition, First Prize. Macon, Georgia. Jan. 1998
Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture, The American Academy in Rome, 1996–1997.
"Urban Diaries" and "Jazz and Blues Landscape Improvisations", American Society of Landscape Architecture National Award of Merit: Research, 1994
Mount Vernon Riverfront Plan, Community Development Award State of Washington, 1988
Design Arts Competition, Merit Award, 1988
University of California Arboretum at Davis/ASLA Certificate For Excellence in the study of Landscape Design, 1987
Thomas Church Design Award for Excellence in Landscape Design/Department of Landscape Architecture at Berkeley, 1987

 Publications 

 Design Culture Now, National Design Triennial, Princeton Architectural Press, NY, 2000
 Everyday Urbanism, Urban Diaries: Improvisation in West Oakland, CA. Monacelli Press, Inc., 1999. ISBN

 Kundivihira 

 External links 
 Hood Design Studio
 Walter J. Hood, UC Berkeley faculty

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