Daniel (Danny, DKL) Landez (he series) is a spatial designer whose transmedia work hybridizes architecture, performance, queer of color critique, exhibition design, urban studies, and film. His work seeks to propose queering techniques using projection, archiving, and embodied practice.
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 Designer at Diller Scofidio + Renfro where he has worked on exhibition and installation designs for the Triennale di Milano, Venice Biennale, Fondation Cartier, Louvre, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Performa, MAXXI, and Power Station of Art.