A House-Bath Appearing Twice, Crudely
10/2023
Installation, Los Angeles
David completes an installation at the SCI-Arc gallery, on view until December.
Young Architects: Value
04/2023
Publication, New York
The Architecture League of New York publishes Young Architects 22: Value including the work of d.esk and other winners of the 2020 Young Architeccts Prize.
Geometry and Architectural Representation
03/2023
Princeton, New Jersey
David speaks to Erin Besler’s course at Princeton.
Disc Intimacy
01/2023
Publication, Cambridge
David’s designs a towel and reflects on displicinary intimacy for Disc Journal’s second issue.
Model Behavior
10/2022
Exhibition, New York
Two Scrolls is included in the Model Behavior exhibition at Cooper Union.
Duel + Duet
07/2022
Conversation, Los Angeles
David presents work alongside Alexey Marfin at SCI-Arc.
DigitalFutures
06/2022
Panel, Online
Chao Yan hosts a panel on Hybrid Forms & Virtual Architecture through Tongji University.
Inscriptions
05/2022
Book, Cambridge
Various d.esk projects are featured in Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech by K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder.
Queer Spaces
04/2022
Book, England
David authors two short essays on queer spaces in Los Angeles in Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories, edited by Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell.
Architect’s Newspaper
12/2021
Award, New York
Architect’s Newspaper awards Inhale, Sag, Flex with a Best of Design award.
Practice Architecture Talks
07/2021
Conversation, Online
Conversation with John McMurrough for his online chat series, Practice Architecture Talks. John’s clever title: Paper Mood.
Hotel LA
06/2021
Exhibition, Los Angeles
The group show, Before, After, and Between Buildings opens, curated by Tekena Koko.
Architectural Beast
05/2021
Exhibition, Venice
d.esk is included in The Architectural Beast, curated by Hérnan Diaz Alonso. The exhibit is part of the Italian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Spring Show Conversation
05/2021
Discussion, Los Angeles
David participates in the opening conversation for the SCI-Arc Spring Show, curated by Zeina Koreitem and Natou Fall.
Dialogues 6
04/2021
Panel, Texas
David participates in Dialogues 6: Queer Space at the TTU College of Architecture, organized by Elisandra Garcia.
Log 50
01/2021
Writing, New York
The essay, Tired... and Behaving Poorly published in Log 50: Model Behavior. Two videos are featured on Log’s online supplement.
A Queer Query
12/2020
Event, Los Angeles
David hosts A Queer Query at SCI-Arc: a salon of architects, artists, and writers exploring queerness and architecture through lectures, performances, films, and discussion.
League Prize
05/2020
Award, New York
d.esk is awarded the League Prize from the Architectural League of New York. Read the interview here and watch the lecture and Q&A here.
a83 Gallery
07/2020
Exhibit, New York.
A section frm Inhale, Exhale, Sag, Flex exbhibited at the inaugural show, Working Remotely at a83 Gallery curated by Philip Denny and Owen Nichols.
See/Saw No.2
05/2020
Interview, Maryland.
David chats with Ben Dooley in See/Saw No.2: It Droops.
Fulfilled
02/2020
Exhibition, Columbus.
Fulfilled is curated by Ashley Bigham at OSU. We sent smoe extra paper from the office.
Spring Break LA
02/2020
Exhibit, Los Angeles.
An upright chair and a hanging chair are exhibted at Spring Break LA, curated by Patrick Geske and Cody Miner.
Open Studio
10/2019
Exhibit, Los Angeles.
Featuring Two Scrolls, Ziggurhut, Colossal Paper and Slump Model at 2426 SET.
CCA
08/2019
Workshop, San Francisco.
Afterscale was a five day workshop with CCA students.
SCI-Arc Channel
06/2019
Interview, Los Angeles.
An interview about Slump Mpdel for the SCI-Arc Channel.
Family Dinner
04/2019
Panel, Cambridge.
A panel inside Petra Blaisses’s gold curtain at Harvard GSD as part of the awesomely student-run Queers in Design for a discussion. Thanks to Remus and crew for putting together a cool panel alongaside Laida Aguirre, Jaffer Kolb, Andrew Holder, Victor Jones, and Ellie Abrons.
2426 SET
03/2019
Exhibit, Los Angeles.
The group show, Office Equipment & Operating Systems features d.esk, Reimaging, Roundhouse, and Theo Triantafyllidis at 2426 SET.
Wedge Gallery
03/2019
Exhibit, Los Angeles.
Slump Model opens at Woodbury University’s Wedge Gallery, curated by Ryan Tyler Martinez.
Texas A&M
11/2018
Lecture, Texas.
By Twos and Fives at Texas A&M College of Architecture.
MOCA
10/2018
Workshop, Los Angeles.
Public workshop at MOCA Grand.
Sight Site
09/2018
Exhibit, Tijuana.
The Relative Size of Things on view as part of Roundhouse Platform's Sight Site, an “Excursion at the Escuela Libre de Architectura in Tijuana”. Organized by Brendan Shea and Noémie Despland-Lichtert.
Project Journal
09/2018
Publication, New York.
Training Wheels fits across the cover of Project Issue Seven,
Tempietto Exemplum
04/2018
Exhibit, New Haven.
Three Pigliettos on display at the Yale School of Architecture’s Tempietto Exemplum Show.
The Drawing Show at Yale Architecture Gallery
02/2018
Exhibit, New Haven.
d.esk participates in The Drawing Show at the Yale. Three videos are on view.
Archinect
02/2018
Interview, Los Angeles.
Archinect’s Anthony Morey interviews D.ESK for the Fellow Fellows series.
Inscriptions at Harvard GSD
01/2018
Exhibit, Cambridge.
Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech opens at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Curated by K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder. On view are drawings from Column & Canopy, Paperweight, and Training Wheels.
MacDowell Fellowship
06/2017
Residency, New Hampshire.
David is awarded a five week residency at the MacDowell Colony.
Dimensions 30
06/2017
Essay, Ann Arbor.
Now What? Published in Dimensions 30.
Faculty Talk
11/2016
Exhibit, New York
Paper Space Oddities, a faculty conversation at SCI-Arc, with response by Anna Neimark.
The Drawing Show at Architecture and Design Museum
10/2016
Exhibition, Los Angeles.
d.esk participates in The Drawing Show at the Architecture and Design Museum. Three videos are on view.
Visual Studies Symposium at Penn
10/2016
Panel, Philadelphia.
Presenting Scale Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania for Nate Hume’s Visual Studies Symposium with Kelly Bair, Mickey Loverich, and Clark Thenhaus.
Fellow Fellows at Michigan
03/2016
Exhibit, Ann Arbor.
For the Trees opens as part of Fellow Fellows exhibition at the Taubman College Gallery with fellow fellows Ashley Bigham and Cyrus Peñarroyo.
Pidgin Journal
05/2015
Publicatino, Princeton.
I’m Trying to Sell Someone’s Abstractions... Published in Pidgin Magazine Issue 19: Magic.
One Night Stand
05/2015
Exhibit, Los Angeles.
A Rendered Model of A Wheel featured at One Night Stand.
LeFevre Exhibition
04/2015
Exhibit, Columbus.
Training Wheels opens at OSU Banvard Gallery for the LeFevre Fellowship exhibitiono.
LeFevre Lecture
04/2015
Lecture, Columbus.
Fellowship Lecture: Big Things, Small Things, Round Things, Round Things at OSU.
ACSA 103
03/2015
Panel, Toronto.
Presenting The Full Scale Problem at ACSA 103.
Project Journal
02/2015
Publication, New York.
An Odd Picture published in Project Issue 4.
OSU Workshop
08/2014
Workshop, Columbus.
Leading Actual Stuff workshop at OSU.
UCLA Jumpstart