Bio
David Yocum is a Visiting Lecturer at the Georgia Institute of
Technology where he teaches design studios and serves as a guest critic
and lecturer.
Yocum's academic focus is the training of students in critical design
thinking with an emphasis on real world implementation of creative
invention. He has spent his 10 year career executing proposals and
built projects across a wide scale of work, from single room buildings
to new urban campuses for major universities.
Yocum trained and practiced for 8 years with Mack Scogin Merrill Elam
Architects in Atlanta, Georgia, where as a Senior Project Architect he
was responsible for the design and delivery of award winning works such
as the Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University, the
Mountain Tree House in Dilliard, GA, and the New United States
Courthouse in Austin, Texas.
In 2006, Yocum launched BLDGS, a new practice with Brian Bell, AIA.
Their firm is a full service architectural venture dedicated to the
creation of inventive and enduring works of architecture and urban
design. Current projects include private residences and public art
galleries in and around the Atlanta area. Recent awards include a 2007
National AIA Small Project Award for Villa de Murph, a conversion of an
abandoned urban warehouse into a residence and work studio.
He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1992 from Dartmouth College with
majors in History and Studio Art, where he was James B. Reynolds
Scholar, and his Master of Architecture in 1997 from Harvard University.
