10/25/24
Harvard, 2024 Ivory Prize Housing Innovation Summit organized by the Joint Center for Housing Studies and the Graduate School of Design.
Palo work featured in the City of San Diego’s award winning housing policy.
10/25/25
MOPA, Converging Horizons symposium
Palo presents and participates in 'Border as Practice' alongside US and Mexico based architects.
10/15/24
One Percent for the Planet Global Summit San Diego
Palo is a proud sponsor of the annual Global Summit hosted in San Diego
10/01/24
‘The Role of the Architect’
University of San Diego invites David to lecture on the role of the architect in development.
09/26/24
AIA San Diego a’24
David debates ‘Is San Diego a design capital?’ at the inaugural annual AIA event.
09/21/24
San Diego River Park Foundation’s Party on the Commons
Palo is a proud donor of the San Diego River Park Foundation
09/01/24
Mikaela joins the Cal Poly SLO College of Architecture and Environmental Design Academic Advisory Council
09/12/24
City of San Diego Building Code Working Group
David joins the working Group advancing building code reform towards higher quality housing.
06/18/24
‘San Diego Tackles Housing Affordability by Incentivizing ADUs’
Palo work featured in ProBuilder’s missing middle ADU housing article.
08/26/24
‘Walker & Dunlop to Raise $400M for Affordable Housing on Church Land’
Palo partner Logos Faith Development begins efforts with Walker & Dunlop to raise $400M for housing on church land including several sites in San Diego.
08/13/24
Palo olympics awards trinational South Korea/Canada/USA Ryan Kim the Gold Medal
08/09/24
The OB Rag’s ‘Worst ADU in San Diego’ Contest — A Call for Entries
Palo housing is illustrated in an article by NIMBY OB Rag where ugly is defined as more neighbors.
08/24
Palo’s Legalize Single Stairs take over Amazon.com and Walmart.com
07/11/24
City of San Diego Land Use and Housing Committee
David presents Strategies for Affordable and Sustainable Housing with the brilliant Ed Mendoza to San Diego’s city council
07/01/24
Palo cited in Not So Gentle Density: An Early Assessment of the San Diego Bonus ADU Program
University of Texas at Austin, UC Berkley Center for Community Innovation and Institute of Governmental Studies
06/20/2024
ULI Housing Product Council
Unlocking Potential through ADU Bonus Policy - An Approach to Missing Middle Housing
Palo presents various housing policies available in City of San Diego with specific attention on the ADU Bonus program
05/23/24
CEART Tijuana, Unity Unidad Through Design: Diseno
David presents Palo’s World Design Capital competition entry at Centro Estatal Artes Tijuana as part of an exhibition opening
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05/22/24
Single Stairs and Housing Quality
David presents to YIMBY San Diego building code reform ideas for improving housing quality and production.
05/16/24
Ivory Prize for housing awarded to the City of San Diego for the ADU Affordable Bonus program.
Palo interviews and work illustrates the success of the program.
05/04/24
Union Hall Gallery The Art of Experience opens
04/16/24
The Last Lecture, Woodbury University
Palo gives the last public lecture at Woodbury University San Diego
03/21/24
Practice/Practica Exhibition as part of World Design Capital Opens
Palo’s WDC Pavilion runner up entry is exhibited along side the work of prominent designers from San Diego and Tijuana
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01/19/24
‘If San Diego wants more family-sized apartments, an update to the building code may help’
KPBS interviews David regarding single stair code reform.
01/2024
David joins Circulate San Diego’s policy advisory committee
12/15/23
UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation identifies the City of San Diego as California’s top city for favorable zoning and land use
12/06/23
‘San Diego is constructing ADU ‘apartment buildings’ to fight its housing shortage’
Fast Company features and interviews Palo.
11/28/23
‘Not your grandma’s granny flat: How San Diego hacked state housing law to build ADU ‘apartment buildings’
CalMatters interviews Palo and features projects. Additionally, featured by KPBS.
10/03/23
Shoutout SoCal, ‘Meet david and Mikaela Pearson | Architect and Landscape Architect’
Mikaela and David are interviewed by Shoutout SoCal
08/01/24
David joins the Southwestern College Academic Advisory Council as they work towards the first community college to grant an undergraduate degree in architecture.
07/13/23
‘Vertical Shared Access Reform’, Livable Communities Initiative and AIA|LA
Palo single stair (point access block) work presented and debated.
AIA|LA Urban Design Committee – Vertical Shared Access Reform | AIA Los Angeles
05/23
‘What is the Subdivision Map Act and Pathways for Possible Reforms’
David is interviewed by UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation regarding subdivision of urban infill lots.
Spring 2023
ULI Emerging Trends in San Diego
Palo is interviewed and featured in the Urban Land Institute’s emerging trends report on housing and urban living.
Spring 2023
Housing Product Council | ULI San Diego - Tijuana
David joins the ULI Housing Product Council focusing on multifamily housing throughought San Diego County
02/15/23
‘San Diego’s Success in Spurring Missing Middle Housing: The Accessory Dwelling Unit Bonus Program’
Palo’s work and interview is included in the Research and Policy paper release by UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation.
2022
Palo’s Dewey Street ADU receives an AIA San Diego Design Award
08/03/2021
City of El Cajon
In a closed session David presents opportunities for housing at existing multifamily properties to the city manager and development director.
03/2021
Palo mentor and housing heroes Anne Lacaton and Jean Phillipe-Vassal win the Pritzker Prize.
11/23/20
Woodbury University Years of Service Award
David receives teaching service acknowledgement for 10 semesters of teaching architecture thesis students.
02/10/2020
SD Voyager interviews David
2020
Palo’s Mansfield ADU and Garden Pavilion receives an AIA San Diego Design Award
2020 Design Awards — AIA San Diego
07/25/2018
AIA San Diego Panel on Young Practices
Palo presents their emerging practice and work.
04/2018
San Diego Urban Infill Housing Workshop
David Pearson and Juan Jose Reyna Monreal conduct a housing workshop with students from Universidad de Monterrey and Woodbury University.
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04/28/17
Universidad de Monterrey
Mikaela and David workshop landscape urbanism with UdeM in Monterrey, Mexico.
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Fall 2016
Universidad de Monterrey
Mikaela and David serve as final review jurors to the thesis architecture students.
Winter 2016
Very Vary Veri journal at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design publishes Mikaela and David’s essay, ‘Roof Lines, exploring drought, vegetation, and architectural aesthetics in the Southwest United States.
05/22/15
Open Letters Harvard Graduate School of Design
David writes to DPAW Workshop inquiring of design opportunities in second and third tier cities.
Spring 2015
‘The City from and by Housing’, SOLID Harvard GSD series, Design Techniques
David Pearson and Hayrettin Gunc’s design work advised by Pritzker Prize Winner Anne Lacaton is published.
2014
Wentworth Architecture Review, Volume 4
Andy Payne and David’s conversation on the effects of emerging technology in architectural practice is published.
12/2014
Tsinghua University, Beijing
David presents his work on Architectures of Radical Openness advised by Ben van Berkel.
09/2014
Harvard Innovation Lab
David co-leads a discussion on Design + Entrepreneurship for the iLab’s Venture Incubation Program
Spring 2014
Harvard University, Sustainability Grant, “Bringing Civic Value to Local Infrastructure”
Spring 2014
Harvard GSD, Penny White grant for “Unearthing Larrea Tridentata”
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