Walker is an architect, designer, artist, and business strategist. Walker grew up in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Cornell University (B.Arch), and the School of The Art Institute of Chicago (MFA).
Walker’s visual art is focused on how structures of power affect the physical and virtual world in which we live. He has shown work at galleries in Chicago, New York, Ithaca, San Francisco, Rome, and Berlin. These showings have ranged from group shows to solo presentations and site specific installations beyond the context of the gallery.
As a writer, he co-authored and edited two monographs about the international architecture firm FGP Atelier: Especies and Progressions (Hatje Cantz, 2021). His primary interest is critical theory focused on art, the built environment, economics, and technology. This work led to the publication of Reframing American Culture: Towards a User-Owned Network and Exchange (2021) and the pending publication of Unf*cking Capitalism (2024).
As an entrepreneur, Walker has been on the founding executive team of 3 companies that he helped scale to 30+ team members within the first two years of operation. Most recently, he founded The Woodlawn Initiative. The Woodlawn Initiative researches, designs, and actively aims to bring about a more rewarding, profitable, and sustainable relationship between the physical world we inhabit and invisible systems, infrastructure, agents, digital technologies, and power structures. During the first two years of existence, The Initiative was focused on building The Large World Model for Domestic Life. We are currently working on a stealth physical AI device.
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