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Awards

2010
  • Award Winner - The Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award, 2010
  • Award Winner- Vanity Fair / Rado Unlimited Spirit Award, 2010
  • Selected for inclusion in :California Design Biennial. PMCA Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art Action / Reaction, 2010
2009
  • Sustainable Quality Award, City of Santa Monica – Excellence in Stewardship of the Environment
  • Move On Award for Achievements in Environmental Sustainability and Public Awareness.
  • THE AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AWARD FOR 2009 (from the Chicago Athenaeum museum of Architecture and Design and the European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies), Panel House
2008
  • Studio of Environmental Architecture – Green Business Certified by the City of Santa Monica
  • (January) Elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects
2007
  • Exhibition- Southern California Institute of Arch, 2007
  • (February) Awarded first Green Grant from City of SM for his work on the Studio of Environmental Architecture
  • (November) Southern California Institute of Architecture Distinguished Alumni Award
  • Metropolitan Home Design 100, Living Homes
2006
  • Excellence in Design Awards - Environmental Design+Construction - Award for the McKinley Residence
  • Los Angeles DRY 100 - 100 of the most innovative people in L.A.
2004
  • United States Green Building Council, LEED Accreditation
  • City of Santa Monica Sustainable Leadership Award
  • Eco-Home Network with USGBC and AIA Committee on the Environment, Sustainable Living Award
  • Juror, AIA Kansas City Chapter Design Awards
  • Selected for Compendium of World Architects published by Images, Australia
2002
  • Casa Brutus, Japan, Selected Top Ten Emerging Architects in the World
  • Juror, AIA Iowa Chapter Design Awards
  • Oregon Chapter ACI (American Concrete Institute) Award for Excellence in Concrete for the Garell residence
2001
  • Juror, AIA Sunset Western Home Awards
  • Selected for SCI-Arc Alumni Association Competition: “Big Moves”
  • Nominated by the Los Angeles Chapter of the AIA for the College of Fellowship
2000
  • Business Santa Monica: Sustainable Quality Award Recipient
  • AIA Sunset Western Home Award winner for the McKinley residence
  • Certificate of appreciation to Syndesis from LAAIA chapter office team
  • Selected New Blood 101
1999
  • WRAP Award: Western Waste Reduction Award from CAL EPA
  • Product selected for inclusion in exhibition “ICONS: Magnets and Meanings.” SFMOMA
  • Selected New Blood Architects, Los Angeles
1998
  • SQA (Sustainability Quality Awards) Santa Monica City and Chamber of Commerce
1997
  • Glamorous Green: Material Connexion, NY
  • A Salute to Material Specialists & Their Favorite Palettes for ’96 Projects
  • Selected Who’s Who in Real Estate “Profiles of Architects.” L.A. Business Journal
1996
  • Acclaim IIDA Product Design Achievement Awards, awarded Gold Metal Special Finishes
  • Museum of Modern Art in New York: Syndecrete® included in Permanent Collection

Exhibitions

2011
  • TIMEless exhibition featuring 747 wing house in the SUPERFRONT Gallery @ The Pacific Design Center, May 2011
2010
  • PMCA Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art Action / Reaction - California Design Biennial.
2007
  • Venice Art Walk - featuring the S.E.A. studio
2006
  • LACMA tour of the McKinley Residence
2004
  • CABoom: a festival of contemporary design at the GA Gallery in Tokyo, Santa Monica, CA
  • Liquid Stone at the National Building Museum, Washington D.C.
2003
  • GA Houses: Project 2003 at the GA Gallery in Tokyo, Japan
  • Organic Odyssey and Eco-Chic Fashion Show held at the McKinley residence
  • La Grande Venezia AIA Los Angeles Home Tour
2002
  • Hardcore: Concrete’s Rise from Utility to Luxury, RIBA, London, England
2001
  • AIA/Los Angeles Home Tour Series, Los Angeles, CA, Homes at the Turn of the Century, featuring the Hess Tilt-Up Slab House
  • GA Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, “Projects 2001”
  • SCI-Arc Alumni Exhibition at Form Zero Architectural Bookstore
  • The Marina del Venice Home Tour featuring the Hess residence
  • Homes for the Future: A Tour of Sustainable Living in Southern California” Tour of the McKinley residence
2000
  • 101 New Blood and Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA, Millennium Models
  • AIA/Los Angeles Designs Awards, Los Angeles, CA, Traveling Exhibit of Entries
  • AIA Home Tour, Featuring the Stradella Residence
  • Inventing for the Environment, exhibit at the Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC
  • SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, “SCI-Arc Alumni at Work: Evolution Through Practice”
  • LACMA Art and Architecture Tour featuring the Stradella Residence
1999
  • AIA Home Tour, featuring the Bay residence
  • Hello Again: A new Wave of Recycled Art and Design, international exhibition
  • Vancouver Museum, British Columbia
  • McAllen International Museum, Texas
  • Tryon Center for Visual Art, North Carolina.
  • MOCA Curators Circle Presentation/Tour McKinley residence
  • Westweek Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA, Material World
1998
  • Hello Again: A new Wave of Recycled Art and Design, international traveling exhibition
  • Museum of Decorative Arts + Design, Ghent, Belgium
  • Refuse, international traveling exhibit featured at The Hague, Netherlands and Athens, Greece
  • Venice Art Walk: Docent tours of three projects
1997
  • Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA, featuring the McKinley Residence
  • California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA
  • Center for Modern Art, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Chicago Design Show, Chicago, IL
  • Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  • ECO Expo, Los Angeles, Green Business Conference
  • Oakland Museum of California
  • LA Municipal Art Gallery
  • Design Centre, University of Quebec, Montreal
  • Groningen Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
  • Homes for the Future, Los Angeles, CA Tour of environmental homes
  • LACMA Art and Architecture Tour, Los Angeles, CA, Stradella residence
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Icons: Magnets of Meaning
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design, international traveling exhibit
  • New York, NY, Glamorous Green: Material Connexion
  • Refuse, traveling exhibit featured at The Design Centre, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Breda, Netherlands
1996
  • Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL
  • Design Exchange, Toronto
  • Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
  • Living Design Center, OZONE, Tokyo, Japan
  • National Tour of Solar Homes, Los Angeles, CA, featuring the McKinley Residence, Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy
  • Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design, international traveling exhibition
  • Refuse, international traveling exhibition
  • Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1995
  • MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design
  • Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, 100 /100:100 Architects/100 Years exhibition during Westweek
1994
  • AIA National Convention, Los Angeles, CA
  • Barnsdall Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, LA Service Station
1993
  • ADPSR, SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, CA, Ecology for our Future
  • ECO Expo, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
  • Javitz Center, New York, NY, Accent on Design
1992
  • Art Source, Los Angeles, CA, One Square Foot
  • Mondo Materialis, international traveling exhibit
  • Salon Internationale D’Architecture, Milan Triennale
  • UCLA Extension Design Center, Los Angeles, CA, LA on the Move
  • USC School of Architecture, Los Angeles, The Work of David Hertz and Syndesis
1991
  • Arts Project LA, Los Angeles, CA
  • Mondo Materialis
  • Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design, New York, NY
  • National Building Museum, Washington DC
  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, David Hertz: Syndesis
1990
  • Steelcase Design Partnership, Westweek, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
  • Mondo Materialis
1989
  • Sports Art: Furniture of the Eighties
  • Last of the Decade
  • LA Art Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
  • Hokin / Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • Ports Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA, Restaurant Iconography
1988
  • ABC Gallery, San Diego, CA, New Furniture ‘88, juried exhibition
  • Clodagh-Ross-Williams, New York, NY, High Touch, New Materialism in the Eighties
  • Holiday Park, Carlsbad, CA, The Carlsbad Second Annual Temporary Outdoor
  • Sculpture Exhibition
  • Laforet Harajuku Museum, Tokyo, Japan, American Pop Culture Today
  • Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA, California Furnishings
  • Westweek, Los Angeles, CA, LA Creates
1987
  • IDCNY, International Design Center of New York, NY, The Chair Fair sponsored by Architectural League of New York
  • Muriel Karsik Gallery, New York, Sports Interpreted Through the Decorative Arts
  • Scratch Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA, installation Megaliths: Hieroglyphs and Modern Iconography
  • Scratch Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA, The Politics of Art
  • Square One LA, Los Angeles, CA, The Shape of Things to Come
1986
  • The Architecture League, New York, NY, winner Behind Closed Doors: Young Architects Competition
  • Clodagh Ross Williams, New York. NY, International New Art Forms Expo
  • Cobalt Blue / Attack Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Artists Furniture
  • Crafts and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, LA Collects Fantasy Furniture
  • Flow Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Artist’s for Pro-Peace Furniture of the Eighties
  • Hokin / Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL, Garden Show
  • LAAIA Annual Convention/PDC, Los Angeles, CA, Focus
  • Maison 2001, Tokyo, Japan, CAL Design ‘86
  • San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA, Chairs
  • Venice Art Walk Docent Tour, Venice, CA
  • Westweek/PDC, Los Angeles, CA, CCAIA Interior Awards
1985
  • LAICA, LA Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, LA Recent Designs in Fashion and Furniture
  • Pierce College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Thrive: Works of Innovation in Architecture
  • Queens Museum, New York, NY, Material Pleasures: Furniture for a Post-Modern Age
  • SCI-Arc, Santa Monica, CA, Alumni and Faculty Exhibitions
  • Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA, David Hertz: Concrete Furniture
  • Welton Becket & Associates, Los Angeles, CA, Art and Design Function
  • Whiteley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Son of Apocalypse
  • Venice Art Walk Docent Tour, Venice, CA
1984
  • Angeles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, First Exhibition / New Work Art / Furniture
  • Irvine Visual Arts Center, Irvine, CA, In the Form of Furniture
  • Lyon Gallery, Redlands, CA, Diverging Directions, Artists’ Furniture
  • Whiteley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, LA Apocalypse, 25 Artists’ Furniture
  • Whiteley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, The Unofficial Olympic Sports Furniture Show

Lectures

2011
  • "Beyond Sustainability" Lecture with Bob Berkebile at USC, June 2011
  • "David Hertz- Towards a Restorative Architecture"- Earth Day presentation at SOHO house, April 2011
  • The Purpose of Repurpose: Ephemeralization and Anthropogenic Metabolism in the TechnoSphere at USC School of Architecture Studio, March 2011
  • The Ecology of Design at UCLA Extension, May 2011
2010
  • A+D Art + Architecture with Frances Anderton "Action-Reaction: Design and Transformation" With James Dyson and David Hertz, 2010 www.kcrw.com
2009
  • Approachable architect podcast – the wing house and sailing with architect david hertz 2009 www.residearchitecture.com
  • IWPA's 53rd Annual Convention "World of Wood" Explorations in sustainable wood use "An Architect's Experience", 2009
  • ASID CA Los Angeles The Coming Out Party, for emerging commercial designers, 2009
  • L.A. Mart Design Center – Living Green: Sustaining Business with Sustainable Design Practices www.lamartdesign.com/designersforum/october.cfm
  • IWPA World of Wood 2009 – Explorations in Sustainable Wood Use – An Architect’s Perspective www.iwpawood.org
  • Santa Monica College, Public Lecture Series, “Explorations in Sustainability”
  • USC School of Architecture, Lecture Series, “David Hertz Recent Works”
2008
2007
  • Laaia Mobius Home Tour Featuring the Panel House
  • Sustainable Building Advisor Program, Fundamentals of Green Building www.nasbap.org
  • Los Angeles City Planning Department Lecture Series, Sponsored by LA AIA Political Action Committee
  • USC School of Engineering Lecture Series, The Ecology of Architecture
  • Wood Coating and Composites Conference, Seattle, Washington, Lecturer on Low VOC, -Translucent UV coating advances
  • The Garden Conservancy, San Francisco, California, Gardens of the Mind -Key Note Speaker
  • IIDA Educators Summit, Teaching Green Design
2006
  • 2nd Annual AIA/LA Student Summit, “Bridge the Gap” Panel Discussion
  • Lecture Associated With the National Building Museum’s Exhibition, washington dc, The Green House New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design - Keynote
  • SCI-ARC Career Open House, Keynote address
2004
  • Keynote Speech for Reinvention Conference, Los Angeles, Ca, The Next American House
  • UCLA School of Architecture, Introduction to Architecture: Guest Speaker
  • USC school of Architecture, Lecture Series “The Ecology of Architecture”
  • UCLA extension, Guest Speaker:  “When a House is more than a Home”
  • Alternative Building expo, Santa Monica, Ca, “Green Building Products Emerging Trends”
  • Royal institute of British architects (riBa) gallery in London, england
  • Hardcore: Concrete’s Rise From Unity to Luxury  “Innovations From America”
  • Dwell Magazine Conference New York, New York, “Shaping Modernism in the 21st Century: A Discussion Amongst West Coast Visionaries”
1999
  • Woodbury University Architecture Lecture Series, “The Poetics of Green”
  • Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History, Washington DC, “Inventing for the Environment”: Lecturer as recipient of case study