Walter Hood, professor and chair of the department of landscape architecture & environmental planning and urban design at the University of California, Berkeley, has been awarded the Vincent Scully Prize from the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. The annual award recognizes excellence in practice, scholarship, or criticism in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design.
As an academic and architect, Professor Hood specializes in landscape design, community development, underrepresented citizen participation, and the simultaneous design of architecture and the landscape. He is committed to the development of environments which reflect their place and time specifically through how people inhabit various geographies. He is a past recipient of several prestigious awards, including the MacArthur “Genius Grant” and the Architectural League’s President’s Medal.
Outside of academia, Professor Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio. Some of his most notable projects include the large-scale garden designs at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, the Oakland Museum of California, the M.H. de Young Museum in San Francisco, and the Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing Park in Jacksonville, Florida.
Professor Hood is a graduate of historically Black North Carolina A&T State University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture. He holds a master of landscape architecture degree and master of architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a distinguished master of fine arts degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
