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JD Dowling has a post-graduate degree in Metropolitan Research + Design from SCI_Arc (the Southern California Institute of Architecture) completed in May 2004. JD works as a designer at Eric Owen Moss Architects, and is a partner in the design consulting team D2i_Arch.
JD was born and raised in New York. He received a Bachelors of Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1995-2000) and attended the State University of New York, College of Technology at Delhi (1993-1995). After his undergraduate studies, JD returned to NY where he worked for TON Architects, a firm that specialized in non-profit and institutional renovations. While at TON Architects, JD held position of project manager for the design and construction phases of the Union Settlement Daycare Center in Spanish Harlem. It was during this time that he established the consulting team D2i_Arch. Their work includes the Queens Plaza Competition, as well as a homeless housing prototype for the First Step housing competition, which was recently included in an exhibition in Manhattan.
JDs work in the Los Angeles area includes the schematic design for Patrick/Hubner Residence (L.A., 2002); a Pediatric Dental Office in Mid-Wilshire (L.A., 2002); and currently (with Victor Malerba) a new office layout for LAHSA (LA Homeless Services Authority) in Downtown. He has also worked on many design-build projects in his surrounding neighborhood, including a joint venture with SCI_Arc and the Enterprise Housing Foundation in Boyle Heights, and a design-build project at a teen center in Downtown Los Angeles for the non-profit organization Para Los Niños. |