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Walter
Hood
Professor of Landscape Architecture
B.L.A., University of California, M.L.A+M.Arch University of California, Berkeley
Professor Hood's research interests include the critical examination and development of specific urban landscape typologies for the American city. Together they reflect and reinforce specific cultural, environmental, and physical complexities of the city and neighborhood landscape. Through his teaching, writing, and practice Hood advocates he art of "Improvisation" as a design process for making urban landscapes and architecture.
Referred Publications, Archival Journals, Conference and Symposium Proceedings:
Design Culture Now, National Design Triennial, Princeton Architectural Press, NY, 2000.
Books:
Everyday Urbanism, Urban Diaries: Improvisation in West Oakland, CA, Monacelli Press, Inc., 1999.
Invited Lectures, Papers at Meetings, and Similar Activites:
- One week visiting scholar, Department of Architecture, University of Karlshue, Germany, May 2000.
- Invited Presentation: Seminar on Urban Regeneration/ Rehabilitation, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2000.
- Invited Presentation : The Art of Vital Constructs Symposium, The Santa Fe Art Institute, "Assembling the City Through Neighbourhood Landscapes", July 2000.
- Commisioned to design the new landscape for the DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA.
- Oyster Stockholm, Sept 8-16, 1999.
- University of Oregon, Oct 15-16, 1999.
- Penn State, Nov 17-19, 1999.
- Dumbarton Oaks, Nov 20-21, 1999.
- University of Toronto, Jan 17-18, 2000.
- University of Manitoba, Jan 19, 2000.
- University of Minnesota, March 6, 2000.
- ASLA- Liveable Communities NYC, March 24, 2000.
- GSD-Boston - LSU (sponsors), May 11-12, 2000.
- Karlsruhe, Germany, May 22-28, 2000.
- National Endowment of the Arts, June 1-2, 2000.
- Nuvis, San Ramon, Sept 7, 2000.
Competition:
Harvey Milk Comp, S.F Arts Comm, Sept 8-10, 2000.
Awards:
- 1999 Place Design Award, edra/ Places, Lafayette Square Park.
- Invited Lectures/Juries: Harvard GSD Final Reviews.
Exhibition:
- Exhibition: National Design Terminal, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institute, April-August 2000. One of two Landscape Architects selected nationally.
- Exhibition: Harvard University 100 Year Anniversaryy, February - March 2000.
- Exhibition: Selected to participate in the 2001 Revelatory Landscape, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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