David Gill
FACULTY, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

David Gill is a licensed architect with over 20 years of practice. He received a Bachelor of Architecture with Distinction from California College of Arts and Crafts (now CCA). Before founding his own firm David Gill Architect he went on to work for Kuth / Ranieri, for Baum / Thornley Architects, and had his own practice in Berkeley. As a project architect at Mark Horton / Architecture in San Francisco, Gill was involved in projects including Modesto Commerce Bank, House of Air SF, House of Air Mammoth Lakes, Computer History Museum, Temple Sinai, numerous custom residential projects and a conceptual proposal for the Contemporary Art Museum at the Presidio. He also designed a community arts center for Shipyard Community Arts, an organization for which Gill also serves as a board member.

David Gill has been a faculty member at the graduate school of architecture at Academy of Art University for over 10 years, teaching advanced design studios, thesis development and refinement, and materials and methods. He has also taught graduate design studios at CCA, and has been a guest critic at University of San Francisco, University of California at Berkeley and Cal Poly SLO.

David Gill’s interests – both professional and academic – lie in the materiality of architecture; the tectonic, poetic and cultural meanings in fundamental materials. How these materials/meanings are perceived, in turn, inform the design process. Drawing connections is both a literal and a figurative pursuit; an endlessly evolving practice.

The Modesto Commerce Bank and the Taylor Street Condominium projects done as a project architect at Mark Horton/Architecture