Walther Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio, in Oakland, California. He is also a professor of landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. His work is at the intersection of architecture, landscape architecture and fine art, and uses beauty to elucidate idiocracies and strangeness of urban space. Hood Design Studio is a tripartite practice which works across art and fabrication, design and landscape, and research and urbanism. The Studio's award winning work has been featured in publications including Dwell, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Walter Hood is also a recipient of the 2017 Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award.