d.esk is a Los Angeles-based practice. We build, create installations, and make models.
Our work is driven by opposite interests: the casual and the formal, the everyday and the exclusive, the familiar and the new, and the planned and the ad-hoc.
We favor provisionality over permanence, coherence over style, alliances over commitments, and the wondrous over the austere.

Recent Press and Publications
Flash Art Volumes
Brooklyn Rail
Domus
Architect’s Newspaper
The Plan
Harvard Design Magazine
SCI-Arc Channel
Architectural League of New York
Archinect


Awards
Young Architects League Prize
AN Best of Design


Recent Exhibitions
The Whole Picture at Kent State
Model Behavior at Cooper Union


Selected Writing and Lectures
Tired and Behaving Poorly, Log 50
An Odd Picture, Project 4
Queer Space
Paper Mood
A Visit to Slump Model
Digital Model Problems


Team
Dutra Brown, Chris Doerr, Constantin Gardey, Tony Gonzalez, Matt Hunt, Maria Kuraeva, Alex Mann, Julie RIiley, Kaita Saito, Morgan Sobotka Knowles, Carson Somer, Jixun Wen, Ian Wong

Photo by Brian Guido


David Eskenazi is a designer and educator based in Los Angeles. He is the founder of d.esk, a practice working across buildings, installations, drawings, and research. Built work includes projects in California and the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Installations and exhibitions have been presented at Harvard GSD, SCI-Arc Gallery, Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, and Kent State University, among others. His writing has appeared in Log, Pidgin, and Project. His work has been published in Harvard Design Magazine, Domus, Flash Art Volumes, and The Plan.

Eskenazi is a recipient of the Architectural League Prize and a MacDowell Fellow. He has held the Oberdick Fellowship at the University of Michigan and the LeFevre Emerging Practitioner Fellowship at The Ohio State University. He holds a B.Arch from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.Arch with distinction from SCI-Arc, where he is full-time faculty.

Created in Los Angeles, CA