David de la Peña, PhD, Architect

Architect, PhD, Associate Professor at UC Davis

LDA 141 – Community Participation & Design

Designers and planners need new frameworks and better tools for engaging with communities. Simply going to a community and holding…

In October, Professor de la Peña traveled to Mexico to deliver a keynote talk on participatory design and to facilitate…

Since 2015, I have been involved with the Sustainable Living and Learning Communities at UC Davis. In 2018, I led a year-long…

Project Summary and Letter of Support Since the mid 1990s, gardeners in the River Garden Estates neighborhood of north Sacramento…

I’ve been to my fair share of community meetings. To be fair, I’ve organized too many to count. And honestly,…

Update: Check out some of the work from our class: grassrootsbarcelona.wordpress.com Look up from your tapas and watch the flow of…

Welcome to Barcelona, I hope this helps you get around easily. Barcelona is a city I fell in love with…

Last week I strolled through an experiment happening in the industrial Poble Nou neighborhood of Barcelona—a “Superilla” or “Super-island” where…

by James Rojas and David de la Peña Envisioning a Region It’s not easy for people to envision the region…

Faculty advisor to 2015 and 2017 student teams who design, build, and showcase a net-zero energy home for the U.S. Department…