Awarded 2023 Project of the Year (Architect’s Newspaper) for the International African American Museum, Walter Hood focuses his design approach on art, landscape, and urbanism. In 2009, Hood received the prestigious Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Design. In addition to his mastery of architecture and landscape, Hood received his Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, where he studied the role of sculpture in urban settings. The Hood Design Studio was founded in Oakland, California, in 1992. The studio strengthens endemic patterns and practices—ecological and cultural, contemporary and historical, and those that remain unseen or unrecognized. Hood believes urban spaces and their objects act as public sculptures, creating new apertures to see the emergent beauty, strangeness, and idiosyncrasies around us.

This program is generously underwritten by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

This event is presented in partnership with Illinois Tech.

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