Daniel (Danny, DKL) Landez (he series) is a spatial designer whose transmedia work hybridizes architecture, performance, queer of color critique, chicano studies, urban studies, and art. His work seeks to propose queer and decolonizing architecture practices using projection, archiving, and performance.
Landez received his Professional Master of Architecture at Princeton University with a certificate in Media + Modernity and received his B.S. in Architecture and Theater Arts from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For his work at Princeton, Landez was awarded the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize for “superior ability and talent throughout their architectural design studio work” and the Henry Adams AIA Medal “the best overall academic record.”
He is a member of the Queer Space Working Group. Recently, Landez has presented lectures at the Princeton School of Architecture and Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, and taught architectural design courses with MITES at MIT. He is a Junior Designer/Architect at Diller Scofidio + Renfro where he has worked on exhibition designs for the Power Station of Art and MAXXI.