The Whole Picture Lecture and Exhibition
d.esk opens an exhibition with a lecture for Kent State University’s Fall Public Programs.
Soft Landing Discussion
Presentation and conversation with Nowhere for LA Forum for Art and Architecture at Neutra’s VDL House.
House-Bath Reviews
A House-Bath Appearing Twice, Crudely is published in two reviews: Nile Greenberg’s “Architecture’s Collapse” in Brooklyn Rail and Jasmine Benyamin in Architect’s Newspaper
Harvard Design Magazine
Digital Products published in Harvard Design Magazine’s Issue 51: Multihyphenate, edited by Zeina Koreitem, John May, and Sean Canty
Review of Ziggurhut
Ziggurhut is reviewed in The Plan Magazine by the wonderful Ray Ryan.
“Under the Tent” Discussion
Conversation with Hernán Diaz Alonso and Mira Henry in the SCI-Arc Gallery about A House-Bath Appearing Twice, Crudely.
Young Architects: Value Book
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.
DISC Journal: Intimacy
d.esk designs a towel and reflects on displicinary intimacy for Disc Journal’s second issue.
Model Behavior Exhibition and Publication
Two Scrolls is included in the Model Behavior exhibition at Cooper Union and cataLog 56.
Attention Audio Journal
d.esk contributes to Attention 8, an audio journal for arhcitecural culture organized by Joseph Bedford.
Various Presentations
d.esk presents at SCI-Arc’s Duel + Duet with Alexey Marfin and Tongji University’s DigitalFutures panel on Hybrid Forms & Virtual Architecture hosted by Chao Yan.
Queer Spaces Book
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.
Best of Design Award
Architect’s Newspaper awards Inhale, Sag, Flex with a Best of Design award for Unbuilt Public building.
Practice Architecture Talks
Conversation with John McMurrough for his online chat series, Practice Architecture Talks. John’s clever title: Paper Mood.
Various Exhibitions
d.esk’s work is included in two spring exhbitions: the group show, Before, After, and Between Buildings opens at Hotel LA, curated by Tekena Koko and The Architectural Beast, curated by Hérnan Diaz Alonso, is part of the Italian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Essay Published
The essay, Tired... and Behaving Poorly published in Log 50: Model Behavior. Two videos are featured on Log’s online supplement.
A Queer Query
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
d.esk is awarded the League Prize from the Architectural League of New York. Read an interview here and watch the lecture and Q&A here.
See Saw Interview
David chats with Ben Dooley in See/Saw No.2: It Droops.
Spring Exhibitions
d.esk is included in three spring exhibitions across the country, prepandemic and “very” pandemic: A section from Inhale, Exhale, Sag, Flex is exhibited at the inaugural show, Working Remotely at a83 Gallery curated by Philip Denny and Owen Nichols. Next, Fulfilled is curated by Ashley Bigham at OSU. We sent some extra paper from the office. Also, An upright chair and a hanging chair are exhibted at Spring Break LA, curated by Patrick Geske and Cody Miner.
SCI-Arc Channel Interview
An interview about Slump Model for the SCI-Arc Channel.
Family Dinner Discussion
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 Exhibition
The group show, Office Equipment & Operating Systems features d.esk, Reimaging, Roundhouse, and Theo Triantafyllidis at 2426 SET.
Fall Lecture
By Twos and Fives lecture at Texas A&M College of Architecture.
MOCA Public Workshop
Public workshop at The Museum of Contemporary Art in conjucntion wiith the Beverly Buchanan show
Project Cover
Training Wheels fits across the cover of Project Issue Seven.
Inscriptions Exhibition and Book
Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech opens at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Various d.esk projects are featured in the book. Curated and edited by K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder
The Drawing Show
d.esk participates in The Drawing Show at Yale and the Architecture and Design Museum. Three videos are on view.