B.A. Studio Art, & B.S., Landscape Architecture, University of California at Davis; M.L.A., Urban Design & Landscape Architecture, Harvard University

Professor Fletcher is a landscape architect and urban designer. He is interested in the intersections of city, landscape, and art. More specifically, his work addresses in void, phenomenology, infrastructure, and post-industrial landscapes. He holds an MLA with Distinction from Harvard University (2004) where he studied Urban Design and Landscape Architecture. He also holds a Bachelor of Art in Studio Art and Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from the University of California at Davis (1993). He has been in professional practice since 1994. In addition to having his own design/build practice, he has worked for Jay Griffith on landscape projects and furniture design; Pamela Burton & Associates on major campus plans, public and commercial design projects and most recently, Mia Lehrer & Associates on large-scale planning projects for municipal and public outdoor spaces. His graduate work has been honored by the American Society for Landscape Architecture with a 1st place national award for his work with postindustrial landscapes. He also received an Honor Award in 2004 from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects. He has taught "Theories of Advanced Representation" and a Summer Design Studio at the Harvard Design School (GSD), design studios at the Centre díEtude et díUrbanisme in Saintes, France, and lectured at the USC School of Architecture. He has recently authored a paper on "Contemporary Art and Water," to be published in an upcoming book Watershed Awareness by Robert France of the GSD. David was also the assistant curator and exhibition designer of the "Inhabiting Infrastructure" exhibition, at the GSD. His temporary art installations have been shown at Connemara Sculpture Park,(1994, Plano, Texas), Harvard Design School, “ìBarcelona: Public" and "Bound" (2002 and 2003), "Found," and the UC Davis campus. His work will also be in the Art Center's GardenLAb exhibit in the Fall of 2004.