As part of UCLA AUD’s 2025 Summer Lecture Series, Matthew Au and David Eskenazi share recent work, research trajectories, and reflections on contemporary design culture. Both Los Angeles–based designers and educators, Au and Eskenazi explore architectural form through material experimentation, conceptual rigor, and a sustained engagement with representation and making. Their practices—AuAu and d.esk—operate between drawing, fabrication, speculative design, and built work, offering distinct yet complementary perspectives on architecture today.
Matthew Au
Matthew Au is a designer, educator, and founding principal of AuAu, a practice exploring architecture through material precision, graphic clarity, and iterative experimentation. He is a core faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where he teaches design studios and seminars that investigate representation and process. Au’s work spans installations, objects, and architectural proposals, often examining the relationship between structure, drawing, and fabrication. Prior to founding AuAu, he collaborated with a range of Los Angeles design studios and holds degrees from SCI-Arc and UCLA.
David Eskenazi
David Eskenazi is the founding principal of d.esk, an architectural practice that explores formal and conceptual play through drawing, models, texts, and small-scale built work. Eskenazi is faculty at SCI-Arc, where his teaching focuses on architectural theory, experimental design methods, and the role of representation in shaping architectural thought. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is known for its blend of intellectual rigor and inventive craft. Eskenazi holds an MArch from Harvard GSD and a BA from UC Berkeley.
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