GAD / PERSON PROFILE
David Lake
David Lake works in partnership with Ted Flato at Lake|Flato Architects.
Background & practice
David Lake works in partnership with Ted Flato at Lake|Flato Architects. Their joint 2024 AIA Gold Medal profile connects the practice's origins in Texas ranch houses with later civic, environmental and adaptive-reuse projects. It discusses Confluence Park, the Pearl redevelopment, Austin Central Library and the Marine Education Center. The source presents a shared concern with context, daylight, conservation and buildings that support the life of the surrounding environment.
How to read the work
Read local building traditions and environmental systems together, using daylight, adaptive reuse and resilient construction to make civic and educational places responsive to their setting and users.
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