Views From The Field
OPENING DATE: MARCH 16th, 6:00 pm est
FREELANDBUCK is a Los Angeles and New York City-based architectural office founded and led by Brennan Buck and David Freeland. Established in 2010, the office makes buildings, spaces, and objects that engage the public through layers of meaning, illusion and visual effect. With each project, FreelandBuck aims to create distinct spaces that contribute to a more stimulating, aesthetically engaging, and challenging world. The firm’s architecture and public artwork is notable for its visual richness, intricate spatial sequences, cultural reference, and use of drawing, as both a design method and autonomous form of work, FreelandBuck is a winner of the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices Prize in 2019. They were named a finalist for the 2018 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, a member of Architectural Record’s 2017 Design Vanguard, and a winner of the 2017 AIA LA Next LA Award for their project, Second House. Other recent projects include Stack House, a residential project in Los Angeles that was both designed and developed by FreelandBuck; MINI Living Urban Cabin in Los Angeles; Parallax Gap, an installation originally commissioned by the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum that will be exhibited at North Park Center in Dallas in 2019; and the Los Angeles headquarters of Hungry Man Productions, among other residential, commercial, and cultural commissions.
David Freeland is a licensed architect in the State of California and New York with over 15 years of experience practicing architecture. He has worked on award winning residential, commercial, urban and institutional projects with FreelandBuck, and previously with Michael Maltzan Architecture, Roger Sherman Architecture and Urban Design, RES4, and AGPS. He is a frequent collaborator with developers and planners, with a focus on projects in Los Angeles including his public prize winning entry for the 2006 Prop-X competition. David is a faculty member at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC) in Los Angeles and has taught design studios at UCLA, and USC. From 2006-2012 he was faculty at Woodbury University where he was instrumental in the design of the digital fabrication lab. He is a graduate of University of Virginia and the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design where he received his Masters of Architecture.
Brennan Buck is licensed architect and academic based in New York. Prior to co-founding FreelandBuck, he was assistant professor in Studio Greg Lynn at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. He has worked in the offices of Neil M. Denari Architects and Johnston Marklee & Associates in Los Angeles and Walker Macy in Portland, Oregon. He is a senior critic at the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, CT and he has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Pratt Institute, Syracuse University, and the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen. His writing on technology and representation within the discipline of architecture has been published in numerous academic and professional journals. Brennan is a graduate of Cornell University and the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.
David Freeland is a principal at FreelandBuck in Los Angeles and design faculty at Southern California. FreelandBuck has been recognized as a member of the Architectural League of New York’s 2019 Emerging Voices, the 2017 Architectural Record Design Vanguard and as a 2018 MOMA PS1 Young Architects Program Finalist. Prior to SCI-Arc he taught at Woodbury University where he was instrumental in developing the FabLab and teaching fabrication and computation. Freeland has worked with architecture offices in Los Angeles and New York including Michael Maltzan Architecture and Peter Eisenman Architects. He holds a B.S.Arch from the University of Virginia and an M.Arch from the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. Established in 2009, FreelandBuck has been recognized as a member of the Architectural League of New York’s 2019 Emerging Voices, the 2017 Architectural Record Design Vanguard, as a 2018 MOMA PS1 Young Architects Program Finalist and as an Emerging Architecture Practice by the Los Angeles AIA in 2013.
Brennan Buck is a principal at FreelandBuck in New York City and a senior critic at the Yale School of Architecture. FreelandBuck has been recognized as a member of the Architectural League of New York’s 2019 Emerging Voices, the 2017 Architectural Record Design Vanguard and as a 2018 MOMA PS1 Young Architects Program Finalist. Brennan’s writing on technology and representation within the discipline of architecture has been published in numerous academic and professional journals. Prior to teaching at Yale, he was assistant professor in Studio Greg Lynn at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. He has worked in the offices of Neil M. Denari Architects and Johnston Marklee & Associates in Los Angeles and Walker Macy in Portland, Oregon. Brennan is a graduate of Cornell University and the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.
