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
Brooklyn Rail
Domus
Architect’s Newspaper
The Plan
Harvard Design Magazine
Metropolis
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
Working Remotely at a83
Model Behavior at Cooper Union
Inscriptions at Harvard GSD
The Drawing Show at A+D and Yale

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


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.

Created in Los Angeles, CA