Hood Design Studio is a social art and design practice based in Oakland, California. Creative Director and founder Walter Hood is a recipient of an Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the 2021 recipient of the Architectural League’s President’s Medal award. He leads the practice with principals Alma du Solier, Paul Peters & Michael Degregorio and they have landscape & art projects throughout the United States and now Europe.
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“The thing that I’ve thought for a long time is “How do you bring in other stories?” I like using the term “storytell- ing” because storytelling is as old as human occupation. It doesn’t mean everything has to be true. It’s coming out of a cultural setting and of ways in which people experience each other and the environment.”
— Walter Hood talking to Sam Lubell in Metropolis