Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, University of California Berkele, 1996
Master of Architecture, Architectural Association DRL in London, 2000
Master of Design Studies, 2003
Doctor of Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2007
Dr. David Jason Gerber is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at USC. He concurrently works as an executive at Gehry Technologies Inc., a leading Building Information Modeling consultancy and technology company. Dr. Gerber has worked as an architect in the US, Europe and Asia, for the Steinberg Group, Moshe Safdie, Gehry Technologies, and as a project architect for Zaha Hadid, among other firms. He has held appointments at MIT's Media Lab as a research fellow, as well as numerous teaching and research fellowships at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and as Harvard University's Frederick Sheldon Fellow. He has been an instructor at the southern California Institute of Architecture, the Architectural Association's Design Research Laboratory in London, Innsbruck University, the EPFL Switzerland and has been a guest speaker and critic at Harvard and MIT.
While working for Zaha Hadid Architects, David worked on a number of the recently built projects including the contemporary art museum in Cincinnati, the Phaeno Science Museum in Wolfsburg Germany, the Hoenheim terminus in Strasbourg and a number of unbuilt projects. He was project architect and project manager for the One North masterplan in Singapore.
At SCI-Arc and USC he instructed and instructs courses in the Applied Sciences and studios in design, design computation, AEC technologies, and fabrication, emphasizing associative parametric design strategies and Building Information Modeling as a means of design exploration and realization.
His doctoral research, Parametric Practices: Models for Design Exploration in Architecture, focuses on associative parametric design technology and its affect on design, theory, processes, and contemporary practice. Publications of his design work and research have been included in "Young Blood," AD (2001); "Corporate Fields," AA Publications (2005); and most recently in Interactive Cities, Hyx Publications (2006). He is currently publishing a Harvard University book The Parametric Affect: Computation, Innovation and Models for Design Exploration in Contemporary Architectural Practice (2009).