Walter Hood is professor and former chair of the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the principal of Hood Design. Founded in 1999, the firm is well known for its projects tied to urban redevelopment and the revitalization of underserved communities.

The Sonoma landscape features Eucalyptus windbreaks that divide field and vineyard. Eucalyptus Soliloquy is a conversation between distant groves and a built landscape of borrowed trees, orphan leaves, branches and seeds.

"The work is rooted in a very strong social, participatory, grassroots ethic – not to say that is the way that we approach all the projects, but that is the ethic."
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