d.esk is a practice based in Los Angeles that designs buildings, creates installations, and makes models. We bring open-ended, creative inquiry to the things that make the world we live in.

We like simultaneously occurring opposites:
- the physical and the virtual
- things both familiar and new
- being casual and formal
- the presaged and the ad-hoc
- things rigid and things flexible

We favor now over forever:
- provisionality over permanence
- coherence over style
- alliances over commitments
- the wonderous over the austere

Photo by Brian Guido

The practice is led by David Eskenazi in Los Angeles, with current projects in California and Mexico. Alongside the practice, David writes and teaches, with publications in journals including Log, Project, Offramp, and Pidgin. He’s been awarded the League Prize from the Architectural League of New York, the Oberdick Fellowship at the University of Michigan, the LeFevre Fellowship at the Ohio State University, and was a MacDowell Fellow. Currently, David is a design studio and visual studies faculty at SCI-Arc.

Awards
Architecture League of New York, Young Architects League Prize, 2020
Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design, 2021

Reviews and Interviews
Brooklyn Rail
Architect’s Newspaper
The Plan Magazine
Harvard Design Magazine
SCI-Arc Channel
Archinect
Metropolis Magazine

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

Created in Los Angeles, CA

info@d-esk.net @d.esk