Walter Hood Wants to Change What It Means to Go Outside

In this interview for WSJ. Magazine’s Innovators Issue, Walter Hood of Hood Design Studio talks about his first job for the National Park Service and what that taught him for the rest of his career. Photo: David Keller

across his chest, Walter J. Hood is standing in the middle of San Pablo Avenue in Oakland, California, wearing the weary grin of a homeowner proud of his fixer-upper but with a long to-do list ahead of him. “The neighborhood has changed a lot since I got here—not always the way I wanted, and not always fast enough.

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