Awards

Lectures

Awards

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

• 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

1995

• Pacific Design Center, 100/100: 100 Architects/100 Years, exhibition during Westweek

1994

• The Environmental Pride Award for Innovation Los Angeles Magazine
• Chrysler Award: nomination for Innovation in Design Award

1993

• CCAIA American Institute of Architects: Service Award for Craftsmanship
• I.D. Annual, Gold Medal for Architectural Surfaces
• INC Magazine and The Corporate Design Foundation, Design Leadership Award

1992

• Certificate of Appreciation “For contribution to the profession of architecture”
• Certificate of Appreciation-NAWIC National Association of Women in Construction

1991

• Progressive Architecture,1990 Young Architects Award
• Steelcase Design Partnership, inclusion in the traveling exhibit: Mondo Materialis

1990

• Metropolitan Home of the Year, awarded to Venable Studio

1988

• Dewar’s Profile, California’s Do-ers Award for “Providing inspiration and leadership to the community”
• International Design Yearbook, vol. 4, edited by Arata Isozaki, featuring Inverted Cone Vase
• Los Angeles Times Magazine, People Who Will Make a Difference in LA This Year

1986

• Art Quest ’86, Sculptural Finalist
• Young Architects Competition and Forum, recipient, The Architectural League of New York

1985

• California Council American Institute of Architects, CCAIA, Interiors Award for Black Salad

1984

• Furniture Selected for the Permanent Collection, National Building Museum, Washington DC

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Lectures

2004

• Keynote speech for Reinvention Conference - The Next American House
• Guest Speaker: UCLA Introduction to Architecture
• USC School of Architecture Lecture Series “The Ecology of Architecture”
• Keynote address: The National Redi-Mix and Rock Products Association Conference, Temecula, CA
• Guest Speaker: UCLA Extension “When a House is more than a Home”
• Speaker at the Alternative Building Expo, Santa Monica, CA “Green Building Products: Emerging Trends”
• Portland Cement Association Concrete Summit, Pomona, CA
• 10th Anniversary Venice, CA Garden Tour

2002

• Docent Tour: “The Secret Gardens of Venice” Featuring the McKinley Residence
• Hardcore: Concrete’s Rise From Unity to Luxury “Innovations From America” at the RIBA Gallery in London, England
• Dwell “Shaping Modernism in the 21st Century: A Discussion Amongst West Coast Visionaries”

2000

• “Principles of The Natural Step” to the City of Santa Monica, Santa Monica City Hall
• “The work of David Hertz AIA” Santa Barbara Chapter of the AIA

1999

• “The Poetics of Green” Woodbury University Architecture Lecture Series
• Global Green Third Annual Sustainability Symposium, Santa Monica

1998

• “Inventing for the Environment” Lecture, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History, Washington DC

1997

• The work of Syndesis And David Hertz” AIA Long Beach Chapter Lecture Series
• “L.A. designs” Presentation of recent work Chicago Design Show, Chicago, IL

1996

• AIGA, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Roundtable Presentation
• IIDA (International Interior Design Association) Pacific Design Center Conference
• Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, lecture series on architecture and craft

1995

• Westweek, Los Angeles
• IDCNY (International Design Center, New York) Designers Saturday Panel

1994

• AIA National Convention, Los Angeles, Concrete: Material for a Finite Planet
• ECO Expo, Green Business Conference
• Gamble House Fall Lecture Series, “The Many Hats of David Hertz”
• “The Ecology of Architecture” at SCI-Arc

1993

• ADPSR Conference, “Ecology of Our Future” Organizer and presenter, SCI-Arc
• IBM Design Leadership Symposium, New York, “Lessons Learned About Design”
• IDCNY (International Design Center, New York) Designers Saturday, “Concrete: Material for a Finite Planet”
• INC 500, Pittsburgh, “From Apple to Concrete, the Power of Design”

1992

• National Association of Women in Construction, “David Hertz, Current Work”
• Portland Cement Association, Las Vegas, NY, “Concrete, the Natural Alternative”
• UCLA Extension, “LA on the Move”
• UCLA Graduate Program, Environmental Design and Materials

1991

• University of Southern California Fall Lecture Series, “Young Americans”
• Otis Parsons, “David Hertz’s Concrete Furniture”
• Cal State Long Beach, David Hertz, Current Work

1990

• Art Center College of Design, Presentation of Studio Work

1989

• Cranbook Academy of Arts, presentation for Masters Thesis Studio

1988

• Westweek, “LA Creates” Panel and presentation of recent work
• Santa Monica City College Associates Student Sculpture Club Invitational Lecture

1986

• Architectural League, NY, Behind Closed Doors: Young Architects Competition and Forum

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