Walter Hood: Redefining the Public Realm

FAIN: PW-264142-19

University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94704-5940)
Christina Marino (Project Director: July 2018 to February 2022)

The production of finding aids, disk images, and collection-level bibliographic records for the Walter Hood Collection, comprising 20 cartons of manuscript materials, 14 architectural project models, 250 compact disks (CDs), seven zip drives, and four oversize drawers housing project drawings.

The Regents of the University of California on behalf of the Environmental Design Archives at the University of California at Berkeley seek funding to preserve and make accessible significant source materials generated by urban designer Walter Hood (records 1995-2014). The field of urban design encompasses architecture, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning, and is concerned with the shaping of populated spaces. Disciplines like the Humanities, are only now beginning to understand and recognize Urban Design's approach to the built environment and its value and impact on society. While archival repositories have long been collecting architect’s records and more recently landscape architects records, there are few archival collections of significance in this emerging area of urban design.

Associated Products

WALTER HOOD COLLECTION CURRENTLY BEING PROCESSED (Blog Post)
Title: WALTER HOOD COLLECTION CURRENTLY BEING PROCESSED
Author: Emily Vigor
Abstract: Update from Project Director on how the processing of Walter Hood's collection is going as well as insight into Hood's design process through the window of his sketchbooks.
Date: 11/18/2019
Primary URL: https://archives.ced.berkeley.edu/blog/hood-collection-being-processed
Primary URL Description: The Environmental Design Archives Blog channel, acessible through the EDA's main webpage.
Secondary URL: https://archives.ced.berkeley.edu/blog
Secondary URL Description: The link to the EDA's blog in RSS feed.
Blog Title: Blog: WALTER HOOD COLLECTION CURRENTLY BEING PROCESSED
Website: archives.ced.berkeley.edu

Society of California Archivists Newsletter Article (Article)
Title: Society of California Archivists Newsletter Article
Author: Chris Marino
Abstract: A summary of the scope of the NEH Grant project to process Walter Hood’s collection to an audience of archivists in the state of California.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://calarchivists.org/resources/Documents/Newsletter/2019Summer.pdf
Primary URL Description: Link directly to pdf hosted on SCA's website.
Secondary URL: https://calarchivists.org/Publications/SCANewsletter
Secondary URL Description: Link to newsletter directory on SCA's website.
Access Model: open access
Format: Other
Periodical Title: SCA Newsletter
Publisher: Society of California Archivists

EDA Press Release on Website (Web Resource)
Title: EDA Press Release on Website
Author: Chris Marino
Abstract: The official grant announcement on the EDA's website that was also sent out via email to all email subscribers (300 + individuals) to describe the scope of the grant and why it is significant.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://archives.ced.berkeley.edu/news/announcing-national-endowment-for-the-humanities-grant
Primary URL Description: Direct link to EDA's news announcement for Hood NEH Grant.
Secondary URL: http://archives.ced.berkeley.edu/news
Secondary URL Description: The general EDA news channel.

WALTER HOOD COLLECTION OPEN FOR RESEARCH! (Blog Post)
Title: WALTER HOOD COLLECTION OPEN FOR RESEARCH!
Author: Emily Vigor
Abstract: Blog post from February 2021 announcing the NEH grant to process the Hood Collection was complete, and that materials are available for researchers.
Date: 02/04/2021
Primary URL: https://archives.ced.berkeley.edu/blog/walter-hood-collection-open-for-research

Environmental Design Archives Completes NEH Grant Making Walter Hood’s Collection Accessible (Article)
Title: Environmental Design Archives Completes NEH Grant Making Walter Hood’s Collection Accessible
Author: Emily Vigor
Abstract: An article for the Society of California Archivists newsletter announcing the completion of the NEH grant funded project to process the Hood Collection.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://www.calarchivists.org/resources/Documents/Newsletter/2021Spring.pdf
Access Model: open access
Format: Other
Publisher: Society of California Archivists

RENOWNED LANDSCAPE AND URBAN DESIGNER WALTER HOOD’S DESIGN RECORDS NOW ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC (Web Resource)
Title: RENOWNED LANDSCAPE AND URBAN DESIGNER WALTER HOOD’S DESIGN RECORDS NOW ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC
Author: College of Environmental Design
Abstract: An article for the College of Environmental Design website announcing the completion of the NEH grant funded project to process the Hood Collection.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://ced.berkeley.edu/events-media/news/renowned-landscape-architect-and-urban-designer-walter-hoods-design-records-now-accessible-to-the-public

Walter Hood information page (Web Resource)
Title: Walter Hood information page
Author: Emily Vigor
Abstract: This information page provides users with a brief overview of Walter Hood and his collection, and also provides relevant links to the collection finding aid, project index, and digital index.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://archives.ced.berkeley.edu/collections/walter-hood

Walter Hood Collection finding aid (Web Resource)
Title: Walter Hood Collection finding aid
Author: Emily Vigor
Abstract: The finding aid for the Hood Collection is hosted on the Online Archive of California and is accessible through the following link.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8sf33dw/

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