d.esk is a practice based in Los Angeles that thinks about building, creates installations, and makes models. We bring open-ended, creative inquiry to the immediate world we live in.
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, Jixun Wen, Ian Wong
Photo by Brian Guido
David Eskenazi is a full-time faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and the founder of d.esk, an open-ended design practice working across architecture and art. His built work includes projects in California and Mexico, alongside installations exhibited across the United States.
Eskenazi’s work has been recognized with the Architectural League of New York’s League Prize and a MacDowell Fellowship. It has been shown at institutions including Harvard, Yale, Cooper Union, Kent State, and Woodbury University, and published in Log, Harvard Design Magazine, The Plan, Project, Domus, and Flash Art Volumes.
He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.Arch with distinction from SCI-Arc. Before joining the SCI-Arc faculty, he held the Oberdick Fellowship at the University of Michigan and the LeFevre Fellowship at The Ohio State University.