David Eugin Moon

David Eugin Moon is a partner of N H D M, a NY-based collaborative practice for design and research, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. Moon’s current research examines the notion of architectural speculation in the context of the contemporary milieu. The work of N H D M has been recognized through numerous grants and awards, including the 2023 Architectural League Emerging Voices award, the 2023 and 2019 Graham Foundation Grants, the Architectural Record’s 2020 Design Vanguard, Domus 100+ Best Architecture firms of 2019, the 2018 AIANY New Practices New York award and four AIANY Design Awards. The firm’s work has been presented at global venues, including the 14th and the 17th Architectural Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, the 5th and 6th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, and Storefront for Art and Architecture, among others. The firm’s most recent work includes “Migrating Futures” commissioned by the 2023 Venice Biennale, Korean Pavilion, and “Now You Belong Here: Small Island Disappearing States,” the publication on the neo-colonial and other environmental injustices in the context of climate change is forthcoming in 2024.

Until founding N H D M in 2010, Moon practiced in offices in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and as a key designer at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam and New York. His contributions at OMA include the Koningen Julianaplein in the Hague, the PRADA Transformer in Seoul, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the W12 master plan in London, Museum Plaza in Louisville, and the Cordoba Congress Center in Cordoba, Spain. Other works include the Yokohama Mixed-Use Housing Competition and Sagaponac House for Shigeru Ban, as well as the New School Renovation for 1100 Architect. He was previously faculty in the Architecture Department at Cornell University and is a licensed architect in the Netherlands and in the State of New York. Moon holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Michigan.