David Mah is a senior lecturer in urban design and architecture at the University of Melbourne’s school of design. Previous to the MSD, David was a lecturer at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (2010-2017).
While at the GSD, David was design research lead for the Health and Places Initiative, a research collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health focused on studying the links between the built environment and health outcomes. Together wih Leire Asensio Villoria, David is author of the book: Lifestyled: Health and Places (2016, Jovis). Previous to Harvard, he has also taught at Cornell University’s department of architecture and Landscape Urbanism at the graduate design school at the Architectural Association in London.Professionally, David has worked within a number of international design practices including FOA and Zaha Hadid Architects where he was engaged in the design and delivery of a number of urban design as well as architectural projects in the United Kingdom, Singapore and Spain.David has been collaborating with Leire Asensio Villoria as asensio_mah since 2002.
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Credentials
Positions
Senior Lecturer In Architecture And Urban Design
Architecture, Building And Planning
Registered Architect
Architect's Registration Board United Kingdom
Education
Architectural Association Graduate Diploma (Graduate Design-Landscape Urbanism)
Architectural Association School of Architecture
Bachelor of Architecture (Honours)
Curtin University of Technology