Rene Davids
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 

Linden Tree presentation: October 8th (at) 7 pm
René Davids, F.A.I.A., is a principal of Davids Killory Architecture . Work includes: Sunrise Place housing for extended families and Daybreak Grove housing for homeless mothers and children, both in Escondido, California; Observatory House in San Diego, Red House in Berkeley, California. The firm is currently working on residential projects in the Bay Area and Southern California. The design work of Davids Killory Architects has been published around the world and honored with numerous awards, among them two Presidential Design Awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, three AIA National Honor and Progressive Architecture Awards.
He was recently awarded (2008) first prize (with Taylor Medlin) out of 733 entries for the 43rd World Heritage Site competition sponsored by Central Glass and Shinkenchiku Corporation Davids was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for research on the hillside elevators of Valparaíso, Chile, and is currently working on a book that examines the relationship between technology, topography and urbanism in selected Latin American cities.
With Christine Killory he received a Graham Foundation Fellowship for As Built: Theory of Practice, a continuing biannual series of books published by Princeton Architectural Press on technical and material innovation in architecture. The first volume, Details in Contemporary Architecture , was published in 2006; the second volume, Detail in Process , in January 2008. The third volume will be published in 2009. Teaching consists of design studios and seminars in urban and design theory.
Contact info:
Davids Killory Architecture
Rene Davids & Christine Killory
4 Alvarado Place
Berkeley, CA US-94705
Phone +1 510 848 0195
davikill@pacbell.net
http://www.davidskillory.com
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