David Mah is a senior lecturer in urban design and architecture at the University of Melbourne’s school of design.  Previous to the MSD, David was a lecturer at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (2010-2017). While at the GSD, David was also design research lead for the Health and Places Initiative, a research collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health focused on studying the links between the built environment and health outcomes.  He also taught design and theory at Cornell University’s department of architecture (2007-2010) and Landscape Urbanism at the graduate design school of the Architectural Association in London (2004-2007).

Together with Leire Asensio Villoria, David is co-author of the book: Lifestyled: Health and Places (2016, Jovis).  David’s teaching and research focuses on resilience and sustainability through an engagement with emerging design approaches as well as novel technologies.  His research spans between larger scales of engagement such as landscape urbanism as well as the relationships between health and place through to explorations in digital fabrication as well as associative design approaches.

Together with Leire Asensio Villoria, David is also active in the production of architectural and creative works.  Their work has been exhibited internationally including at the Royal Academy of Art in London, The Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, The NGV Melbourne Design Week and has been featured in professional books and journals published by Birkhauser, Evolo, Lars Muller, Actar and Routledge amongst others.