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13 SEPTEMBER 2016 September's Landscape Architecture Magazine eloquently describes the complicated ground of the Puente Hills Landfill Park.

13 SEPTEMBER 2016
HILLWORKS is delighted to be working with Chambless King on the Daniel Pratt Mill project.

12 SEPTEMBER 2016
HILLWORKS is happy to announce that Will Nix has returned to the design team.

12 JULY 2016
 FIELDWORK UPDATE: Great to be back at the historic Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee! This place is constantly changing and we can’t wait to see our third and fourth pocket parks emerge from the rubble.

05 MAY 2016
 FIELDWORK UPDATE: The site walls are installed in the Woodland Garden! The daffodil bulb line and redbud line are both staked, ready for planting.

21 APRIL 2016
The Auburn Preservation League honors 274 Bragg Avenue with a 2016 Historic Preservation Award.

17 APRIL 2016

FIELDWORK UPDATE: We’re delighted to see the latest plant happenings in the Congregation Or Hadash courtyard: Wild Indigo [Baptista alba] is blooming and Cutleaf Sumac [Rhus glabra ‘Laciniata’] are beginning to leaf out. We love the quirkiness these species bring to the space!

26 MARCH 2016
We're delighted to announce that David was awarded a national 2016 Excellence in Design Studio Teaching Award by the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture [CELA].

09 MARCH 2016
HILLWORKS’ design for Dudley Yards is featured in studioAPLA, the newsletter of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture at Auburn University.

08 MARCH 2016
David serves as guest critic for Georgia Tech’s Portman Prize Studio, a graduate architecture studio exploring the Living Building Challenge.

25 FEBRUARY 2016
American Lifestyle magazine publishes an interview with David. Check out “At the Corner of Past and Present” in issue 75.

15 DECEMBER 2015
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter joined the National Audubon Society and Outward Bound Philadelphia to publicly launch the Discovery Center on the edge of Fairmount Park’s West Basin.  Visit discoveryphila.org for more information.

30 OCTOBER 2015
David gives a talk titled “the act of digging” at the University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture and Planning in Albuquerque.

04 JUNE 2015
David’s off to Washington D.C. to serve on the jury for ASLA’s 2015 National Student Awards Program.

01 JUNE 2015
HILLWORKS is happy to announce that Kelly Homan has been promoted to Associate!

16 MAY 2015
David travels to Beijing to give a talk titled “The Phenology Project: A Study in Landscape Fluxuation” at the 2015 Landscape Diversity Symposium, hosted by Beijing Forestry University.

15 APRIL 2015
David gives a talk titled “Beyond Demolition Drawings” and serves as a guest critic in the University of Florida’s graduate landscape program.

12 MARCH 2015
Auburn University’s Provost announces that David is awarded Associate Professor with Tenure within the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture.

10 MARCH 2015
David gives talk titled “the Phenology Party” at the International Society of Arboriculture Southern Chapter’s annual conference in Mobile, Alabama.

15 FEBRUARY 2015
David serves as a Resource Team Member at Design Alabama’s 10th annual Mayors’ Design Summit. This session worked with Mayors from Heflin, Jacksonville, Ashford, Eufaula, and Opelika to tackle select design issues in each of their communities.

 

11 DECEMBER 2014
David serves as guest critic at Washington University Sam Fox School’s graduate landscape program.

21 NOVEMBER 2014
David heads to the 2014 Annual ASLA Conference in Denver to accept awards for the Phenology Project as well as for D.I.R.T. studio’s Urban Outfitters Headquarters.

 29 SEPTEMBER 2014
The Phenology Project is awarded a 2014 National ASLA Award of Honor in Research.

17 JULY 2014
Dwell Magazine features HILLWORKS’ 274 Bragg Avenue project in the Modern Across America Issue (July/August.)

23 JUNE 2014 
HILLWORKS’ 274 Bragg Avenue project is featured on episode #211 of HGTV’s “You Live in What?”

05 JUNE 2014 
David serves as a Resource Team Member in the 59th National Session of the Mayor’s Institute on City Design hosted in Louisville, Kentucky. This session worked with Mayors from Riverside (CA), Provo (UT), Fairbanks (AK), Minneapolis (MN), Pittsburgh (PA), Hampton (VA), Rochester (NY), and Dayton (OH) to grapple with select design issues in each of their cities.

27 APRIL 2014 
David participates in an interdisciplinary panel session moderated by Jay Mittal titled "Adding Real Estate to the Planner’s Toolbox" at the American Planning Association’s 2014 National Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

12 DECEMBER 2013 
David serves as guest critic for University of Virginia’s Graduate Landscape Studio Reviews.

12 OCTOBER 2013 
The Congregation Or Hadash Synagogue project is awarded a 2013 Award of Honor by the Georgia Chapter of the AIA.

10 OCTOBER 2013 
David serves as a jury member for the Oklahoma Chapter’s 2013 ASLA Awards.