“This is about coming back, this is about picking yourself up and moving on.”
Walker has designed hundreds of projects, taught, lectured, written, and served as an adviser to numerous public agencies. The scope of his concerns is expansive—from the design of small gardens to the planning of cities, with a particular emphasis on urban-regeneration projects, including co-designing the 9/11 memorials in New York City. Two gigantic voids – in the footprints of the Twin Towers – and a surrounding forest of oak trees form the core of the rebuilt World Trade Center and provide a place for contemplation and remembrance.
