Walter Hood Lectures at MIT

MIT welcomes Walter Hood, from the University of California at Berkeley, to deliver the 2010 Ross Silberberg (1990) Memorial Lecture on

Friday, February 26, 2010

12:00 - 2:30 PM

Bartos Theater (MIT Building E15)
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02142

Directions: http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E15

The lecture will be followed by a reception. Open to the general public.

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Walter Hood is a Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design at the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Hood's research interests include the critical examination and development of specific urban landscape typologies for the American city. Together they reflect and reinforce specific cultural, environmental, and physical complexities of the city and neighborhood landscape. Through his teaching, writing, and practice, Hood advocates the art of "Improvisation" as a design process for making urban landscapes and architecture.

The Ross Silberberg (1990) Memorial Fund supports travel grants and a bi-annual lecture to explore the interaction of urban design and social justice. In particular, this ongoing effort examines how the built environment can affect people in both constructive and destructive ways as a result of their race, gender, religion, socio-economic status, physical limitations, and sexuality. The Ross Silberberg Memorial Fund honors Ross Silberberg, a 1990 graduate of the School of Architecture and Planning.

Ross Silberberg was an educator in architecture and urban design who was committed to furthering the understanding of how issues of social justice and community/personal identity are manifest in and affected by our physical environment.