HOOD DESIGN STUDIO

WHERE Oakland, USA
PEOPLE Walter Hood (b. Fort Bragg, USA, 1958), Alma Du Solier (b. Monterrey, Mexico, 1972)

The studio works in three fields: art and production, landscape and design, and research and urban planning. The trait common to all three is practice as social engagement. This is what Walter Hood’s studio offers, engaging with what Hood himself defines Black Landscapes: a way of life that is idiosyncratic, counter-cultural, and non-normative, which can foster a prophetic aesthetical language to build memories as well as new futures based upon the power of the past. An elsewhere made of landscape that ‘tell truths’ and define new narratives of the multiple and the diverse.

SIGNS

  • International African American Museum, Charleston, USA, 2023
  • NVIDIA Campus, Santa Clara, USA, 2022
  • President’s Medal, The Architectural League of New York, 2021
  • Black Landscapes Matter, W. Hood, G. Mitchell Tada, UVA Press, 2021
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