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Walter Hood receives The Architectural League 2021 President's Medal

By Katherine Guimapang|

Wednesday, Aug 4, 2021

Paul Lewis, FAIA presents Walter Hood with the 2021 President's Medal at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. Image © Michelle Garcia/Courtesy of The Architectural League

The Architectural League presented Walter Hood with the award during a public ceremony on July 21. A public ceremony took place at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. Hood's illustrious career has positioned him as an impactful landscape architect whose eclectic design approach bridges the gap between landscape architecture, design, and urbanism as a cultural practice. 

The highest honor given to an individual for their exceptional achievements in architecture, urbanism, art, design, and the environment, The Architectural League conducted their first in-person since March 2020. Packed with featured performances from groups within the community friends, colleagues, and visitors took part in the event as they witnessed tributes to Hood by Mario Gooden, Mabel O. Wilson, and Sara Zewde. 

"The event took place in a production and installation design by Harlem-based architecture studio BRANDT : HAFERD, Jerome W. Haferd and K. Brandt Knapp, with Coleman Downing." Text courtesy of The Architectural League. Image © Jerome Haferd/Courtesy of The Architectural League

Hood's practice, Hood Design Studio, is responsible for notable projects such as the Viaduct Rail Park in Philadelphia, New de Young Museum Gardens in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the garden redesign for the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), and most recently, "Black Towers/Black Power" in Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America at MoMA. The "multi-arts" ceremony at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem is a fitting reflection of Hood's eclectic design approach. 

Architectural League President Paul Lewis applauded Hood, stating he was "one of the most influential designers of public space of our time, an artist who sees his work as a cultural practice, creating beauty in everyday environments, revealing hidden histories, renewing connections, guiding the way to co-existence in all our multiplicity and difference. There could be no more fitting person to honor at the moment of our re-engagement with public life."

View overlooking the Walter Hood-designed New de Young Museum gardens in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Image taken from the 9th-floor observation deck. Image © Mandy Sui Ta via Instagram/Courtesy of @deyoungmuseum

Hood joins the list of other distinguished President's Medal winners such as architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien; Andrew Freear, Director of the Rural Studio of Auburn University; Christiana Figueres, negotiator of the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change; architect Henry Cobb; and beloved critic Ada Louise Huxtable to name a few. 

Earlier this year, Hood was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021 and recognized as a 2021 USA Fellow. In addition, he is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2019 and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. In 2020, his latest book, Black Landscapes Matter, was published. In posing the question, "Do Black landscapes matter?," the book consists of writing and research that dives deep into American history and its relationship to slavery, segregated cities, and the nation's troubled landscape. As described in the blurb from the book, "Black landscapes matter because they tell the truth." Another piece of writing that reiterates his ethos as a designer, this statement echos Hood's ongoing influence in the profession.

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Current Work: Walter Hood. Video courtesy of The Architectural League. Recorded on December 15, 2020.

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Walter Hood receives The Architectural League 2021 President's Medal

By Katherine Guimapang|

Wednesday, Aug 4, 2021

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Paul Lewis, FAIA presents Walter Hood with the 2021 President's Medal at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. Image © Michelle Garcia/Courtesy of The Architectural League

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The Architectural League presented Walter Hood with the award during a public ceremony on July 21. A public ceremony took place at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. Hood's illustrious career has positioned him as an impactful landscape architect whose eclectic design approach bridges the gap between landscape architecture, design, and urbanism as a cultural practice. 

The highest honor given to an individual for their exceptional achievements in architecture, urbanism, art, design, and the environment, The Architectural League conducted their first in-person since March 2020. Packed with featured performances from groups within the community friends, colleagues, and visitors took part in the event as they witnessed tributes to Hood by Mario Gooden, Mabel O. Wilson, and Sara Zewde. 

"The event took place in a production and installation design by Harlem-based architecture studio BRANDT : HAFERD, Jerome W. Haferd and K. Brandt Knapp, with Coleman Downing." Text courtesy of The Architectural League. Image © Jerome Haferd/Courtesy of The Architectural League

Hood's practice, Hood Design Studio, is responsible for notable projects such as the Viaduct Rail Park in Philadelphia, New de Young Museum Gardens in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the garden redesign for the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), and most recently, "Black Towers/Black Power" in Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America at MoMA. The "multi-arts" ceremony at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem is a fitting reflection of Hood's eclectic design approach. 

Architectural League President Paul Lewis applauded Hood, stating he was "one of the most influential designers of public space of our time, an artist who sees his work as a cultural practice, creating beauty in everyday environments, revealing hidden histories, renewing connections, guiding the way to co-existence in all our multiplicity and difference. There could be no more fitting person to honor at the moment of our re-engagement with public life."

View overlooking the Walter Hood-designed New de Young Museum gardens in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Image taken from the 9th-floor observation deck. Image © Mandy Sui Ta via Instagram/Courtesy of @deyoungmuseum

Hood joins the list of other distinguished President's Medal winners such as architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien; Andrew Freear, Director of the Rural Studio of Auburn University; Christiana Figueres, negotiator of the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change; architect Henry Cobb; and beloved critic Ada Louise Huxtable to name a few. 

Earlier this year, Hood was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021 and recognized as a 2021 USA Fellow. In addition, he is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2019 and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. In 2020, his latest book, Black Landscapes Matter, was published. In posing the question, "Do Black landscapes matter?," the book consists of writing and research that dives deep into American history and its relationship to slavery, segregated cities, and the nation's troubled landscape. As described in the blurb from the book, "Black landscapes matter because they tell the truth." Another piece of writing that reiterates his ethos as a designer, this statement echos Hood's ongoing influence in the profession.

RELATED NEWS Climate change activist Christiana Figueres receives 2018 Architectural League President's Medal
RELATED NEWS The Architectural League of New York to Award Michael R. Bloomberg with the 2016 President's Medal
Current Work: Walter Hood. Video courtesy of The Architectural League. Recorded on December 15, 2020.

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