Walter Hood Lecture

Walter Hood Lecture Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design Awards Walter Hood, this year’s invited Kalil Fellow, lectures on his recent work. Hood is professor and former chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and principal of Hood Design Studio in Oakland. Hood has worked in a variety of settings including architecture, landscape architecture, art, community and urban design, planning and research. Established in 1992, Hood Design Studio is committed to issues that address the re-construction of urban landscapes within towns and cities. Hood Design defines the word “urban” as those landscapes where collective densities of inhabitants share physical, social, political and economic resources. The firm has developed a multi-dimensional approach, exploring the role of specific landscape typologies and topologies that together reinforce and re-make landscapes that are specific to place and people. This event is part of the New School Urban Festival Friday March 4, 2011 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street A Presentation of The School of Constructed Environments Parsons The New School for Design www.parsons.edu