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College of Environmental Design

Landscape Architecture + Environmental Planning

Black Landscapes Matter: Q&A with Landscape Designer Walter Hood

Watch: Stories of The Black Wednesdays: Reimagining Space for Black Public Art at UC Berkeley

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College of Environmental Design Lecture Series

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Black Landscapes Matter: Q&A with Landscape Designer Walter Hood

Upon the release of his new book, Walter Hood conceives a landscape architecture rooted in a sense of place, justice, and historical truth. Co-editor, Grace Mitchell Tada is a M.L.A alumna and currently co-teaching a studio with Professor Hood. Read More »

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Watch: Stories of The Black Wednesdays: Reimagining Space for Black Public Art at UC Berkeley

Walter Hood, Takiyah Jackson, Allan deSouza, Mia Settles Tidwell, and Blake Simons engage in an exploratory dialogue on remembering the history behind Black Wednesdays and how we re-imagine space for Black public art. Read More »

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MLA Statement of Purpose Review Program

This Fall 2020, Our LAEP Diversity + Representation Taskforce (DRT) is excited to collaborate with CED Students of Color (CEDSOC) this year to expand the Peer Review Program into our MLA program.

News - February 18, 2021

Renowned Landscape Architect and Urban Designer Walter Hood’s Design Records Now Accessible to the Public

The Environmental Design Archives completed a 18-month National Endowment for the Humanities Grant funding the processing of Hood’s Collection

News - February 11, 2021

Professor Walter Hood selected as YBCA 100 Honoree

The LAEP professor was chosen along with 99 other Bay recipients for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts's annual list. YBCA's 100 celebrates everyday heroes—artists, activists, community leaders— and their inspiring contributions to those around them

News - February 05, 2021

CED Professor Walter Hood Named 2021 USA Fellow alongside Olalekan Jeyifous and Jennifer Bonner

For his work in creating ecologically sustainable spaces that also better public usage while respecting the culture and history of the enmeshed communities, Hood was also awarded a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 2019.

News - February 01, 2021

Spring Faculty Spotlight: Tyler Mohr

It's been four years since LAEP Lecturer, Tyler Mohr, started his career at the CED as the digital media instructor for the [IN]LAND Summer [IN]stitute. Today, Mohr co-teaches LA234B with Walter Hood and practices at Surfacedesign in San Francisco.

News - January 21, 2021

Spring Faculty Spotlight: Damir Hurdich

Hurdich is a lecturer in the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning as well as an alumni of LAEP's graduate program. Hurdich also runs his own practice which collected an ASLA Merit Award last year for one its designs.

News - December 01, 2020

Watch: Stories of The Black Wednesdays: Reimagining Space for Black Public Art at UC Berkeley

News - November 05, 2020

Black Landscapes Matter: Q&A with Landscape Designer Walter Hood

News - October 12, 2020

Fall Faculty Feature: Iryna Dronova

"Landscape architecture and environmental design is an incredibly important, fascinating and also incredibly complex field. Entering this area becomes more than a profession - it becomes a vocation, a mindset, a lifestyle."

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