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. 




Our work is driven by an interest in simultaneously occurring opposite conditions, found in the physical and the virtual, things both familiar and new, the casual and the formal, the presaged and the ad-hoc, and lastly, things rigid and things flexible.


We favor an ethics of now over forever, provisionality over permanence, coherence over style, alliances over commitments, and the wonderous 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, 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.

Created in Los Angeles, CA