“I’m very much at the mercy of my fragility…and my ever changing…”
-Hannah Sian Topp
2026 Networking in Las Vegas, NV.
Collab proposal with Effie Bouras.
2025 Portland institute of Design registered as a DBA in Nevada.
Site visit, History Museum, small Hotel project, West Linn, OR.
Oakland, CA collab proposal, Eliza Rickman.
Artist research on Emily Blunt.
235 mph Lounge.
Screenplay: Elegy for Wakinyan Zi Win (Yellow Thunder Woman).
Portland Institute of Design registered as an ABN in Oregon.
David studies electrochemistry at HarvardX. Paused.
Pi-Des at Civilian Studios.
Truck2 concept vehicle.
NDA sent for Alice and Pearl.
Pi-Des at the Environmental Law Conference, U of O.
Vehicle Gate 1.
The Bunker.
Interview, the Materials Show, Portland, OR
Complaint against MAD Architects for their derivative work Never Hut, via California Architects Board.
David Curtis has patent(s) pending on Primitive Hut and Triage Field.
Collaboration proposal, the Musk Foundation.
Donor & virtual support, Stein Ware 2024.
Professor, PCC, Architecture.
2022 Robot1. A mini-utility device.
Invokes VARA protection on Desert Concrete, Lucas Valley, CA.
2021 Moves studio to Portland, OR.
2020 George Floyd Protest, Oakland, CA.
2019 Dixie School District renaming, Lucas Valley, CA.
2018-present Primitive Hut, and Triage Field.
NCI-Des is conceived as a regional extension to SCI-Arc.
2017-2021 dc_us, a design studio based in Lucas Valley, CA.
2016 Volunteers at Standing Rock.
2014 California Secretary of State candidate, Green Party.
Video training, CMCM, San Rafael, CA.
2012 Fukushima Mediation, pro-bono work sequence, given to the Prime Minister of Japan via the Consulate General of Japan, SF.
2010 Green Party Governor candidate, Nevada.
Artist, City of Las Vegas public art program. Transition and Invasive Species.
Rafael Viñoly offers dc a role on the Cleveland Art Museum expansion. David declines the role to stay close to family.
2008 Apparatus pursues the Flight 93 memorial with Desert Space Foundation and collaborators.
Rhinoceros modeling, Discover Science Center expansion, John Sergio Fisher associates.
2007 Residential Designer, Nevada, Certificate No. 247-P (Now 247-RD).
dc Initiates Apparatus in Las Vegas, NV.
dc curates Dark Gallery, a sound installation at the Contemporary Arts Collective in the Arts Factory, Las Vegas, NV.
Clark County Green Party shuts down an Army Recruitment location.
2003-2004 Design director for Paul Steelman, the Nevada State Museum at the Springs Preserve.
Gallery Educator, Guggenheim Hermitage Museum.
2003 Press, M*A*S*H, Mobilized Assistance Shelter for the Homeless. Design Charette, City of Las Vegas, Clark County.
2001-2008 Associate AIA.
2000-2003 Senior Professional, Associate, TSA of Nevada. Projects: the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Las Vegas, NV. Guggenheim Las Vegas. Oversees completion of the design and permitting documents for the architect of record, assists OMA/Rem Koolhaas and Frank O. Gehry Associates team members. Construction administration on both museums and the Art of the Motorcycle exhibit.
1998-2002 Board of directors, the Contemporary Arts Collective, an artist run gallery. Elected Vice President, then elevates to President.
1999 creative writing with Claudia Keelan, UNLV.
1998 David S Curtis Studio in the Arts Factory, Las Vegas, NV.
1989-1998 work for architecture firms in OH and NV.
1997 Exhibit: Gateway to Las Vegas, UNLV school of architecture.
1995-now California Architect Board Candidate ID: 21661.
1995 dc initates NCARB file 844834 via California.
1995 Exhibit: A house in the desert, Rainbow Library Gallery, LV.
1994 Exhibit: Artifacts from architectural design explorations, Reed Whipple. LV.
1990 Guest Critic, Laszlo Kiss studio, Parsons School of Design, NYC
Horizon High School Prototype, Tate Snyder Architects, LV.
1984-1988 BSArch, Knowlton School of Architecture. The Ohio State University.
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