2024-12-22T04:00:19-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150272031/othering-blackness-in-design-reflections-with-walter-hood Rukshan Vathupola 2021-07-02T14:24:00-04:00 >2021-07-09T13:41:50-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d2/d2f930f6acc649c4d8a3bdf78d722f07.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Mr. Hood wouldn&rsquo;t let his son go to art school, so he had to find the next best thing. Going through the rest of the list of college majors&mdash;accounting, advertising, agriculture, etc.&mdash;nothing else called out to him in the same way nor made the vision of the future he wanted any clearer or any more desirable. But then, an accidental discovery halfway through high school helped to make this vision a little less murky. One day, while walking through the hallways, Walter happened to stumble upon a very strange collection of people in a classroom. They were all standing at boards, in all-white cloaks, meticulously drafting away with T-squares in one hand and graphite in the other.&nbsp;</p>