2024 Vincent Scully Prize: Walter Hood
DATE: Friday 10/4/24 TIME: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Join Aileen Fuchs, president and executive director, and the Vincent Scully Prize Jury, for an award presentation and cocktail reception to celebrate the work of Walter Hood, pre-eminent American landscape designer, artist, and educator.
Best known for his work in the public realm and urban environments, Walter Hood has a storied career as a designer, artist, academic administrator, and educator. He creates ecologically sustainable spaces that connect with urban communities and help empower marginalized communities. Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio, a social art and design practice based in Oakland, California which he founded in 1992. The studio’s practice includes art and fabrication, design and landscape, and research urbanism. Responding to each place’s unique scale and context with an approach adaptive to the specifics of a space, Hood’s work seeks to uncover and strengthen layers of meaning present in all landscapes – ecological, cultural, contemporary and historic. Notable projects include the large-scale garden designs of the International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, South Carolina, the Oakland Museum of California, the M. H. de Young Museum in San Francisco, and the recently opened Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing Park in Jacksonville, Florida.
Program Schedule
6 pm Cocktails & exhibition exploration
7 pm Award Ceremony & public conversation with Paul Goldberger
8 pm Reception with cocktails, hors d’oeuvres & music
The Vincent Scully Prize, established in 1999, recognizes exemplary practice, scholarship or criticism in architecture, historic preservation and urban design. It is named for the esteemed professor, and the award’s first recipient, who inspired generations across the building disciplines. Scully was the Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Miami. For more than four decades his teaching and scholarship have profoundly influenced prominent architects, urban planners, and others.
Image courtesy Hood Design Studio, by Adrienne Eberhardt