He is the co-author, with Paul Andersen, of The Architecture of Patterns (Norton, 2010), which received a production grant from the Graham Foundation. His wide-ranging research has been published in Grey Room, Log, Harvard Design Magazine, Places, The Journal of Landscape Architecture and the Journal of Architectural Education. David received a Carter Manny Award for his PhD dissertation (from UCLA) One Thing or Another: The World Trade Center and the Implosion of Modernism.