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Hood has received national recognition for his work. He was among the judges who chose the design for a memorial to victims of the September 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon. He also won a 1996 award from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for his books, Urban Diaries and Blues & Jazz Landscape Improvisations , and won a 2003 ASLA honor award for a master plan for Baldwin Hills Park in Los Angeles .

Hood holds Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Architecture degrees from the University of California at Berkeley .

Walter Hood's published monographs, "Urban Diaries" and "Blues & Jazz Landscape Improvisations," illuminate his unique approach to the design of urban landscapes. His work won an ASLA Research award in 1996. He is currently researching and writing about American landscape typologies.

UNLV School of Architecture welcomed Lecturer Walter Hood
on October 17, 2000

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Landscape architect Walter Hood, who has a private practice in Oakland, California, and teaches at UC Berkeley, talks a little about his career and discusses landscape advocacy pro bono work he has done in minority urban communities. He shows slides of the plans of some of the park projects he has worked on

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 the art of "Improvisation" as a design process for making urban landscapes and architecture.

Hood is the founder and principal of the Oakland, California-based urban landscape firm, Hood Design. He also teaches in, and is the former chair of, the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley . Best known for his innovative public design projects which are tied to urban redevelopment and the revitalization of under-served communities, Hood's philosophical approach mixes architecture with elements of ecology, archaeology, sociology and politics. His projects reflect his steadfast commitment to developing environments in harmony with their unique physical location, cultural heritage, function and the populations they serve.

In addition to the numerous local parks he has created in Oakland , he is the landscape architect for the new M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park , and a member of the design team for Yerba Buena Lane , a new pedestrian pathway being created in San Francisco linking Market Street with Yerba Buena Gardens.

http://www-laep.ced.berkeley.edu/laep/people/people_hood.html

The Hybrid Spaces of Walter Hood. May 2, 2005
http://www.asla.org/land/050205/walterhood.html

AndrewBlum.net. "The Peace Maker"
http://andrewblum.net/typepad/2005/07/the_peace_maker.html

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