Title
Professor of Architecture and Urban Design

Department
Dept of Architecture


Faculty URL
http://www.davidskillory.com

Email
rdavids@berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 532-3202


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Research Expertise and Interest
architecture and urban design and theory

Research Description
René Davids, F.A.I.A., is a principal of Davids Killory Architecture. Work includeshousing for extended families and homeless mothers and children, and residential work along the state of California. The design work of Davids Killory Architects has been published around the world and honored with numerous awards, among them twoPresidential Design Awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, three AIA National Honor Awards, three Progressive Architecture Awards. Davids was recently awarded( with Taylor Medlin) the first Prize in the 43rd Central Glass Competition in Tokyo, Japan. He has also been awarded the 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 betweentechnology, topography and urbanism in selected Latin American cities. WithChristine Killory he has 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 firstvolume, Details in Contemporary Architecture, was published in 2006; the second volume, Detail in Process in January 2008.