David Escudero

David Escudero is an architect and Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Composition (DCA, ETSAM-UPM), where he teaches architectural composition, and history and theory of landscape architecture. His research topics focus on the intersections between architectural theory and landscape, cinematography and representation. His book Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy (Routledge) has been awarded with a Graham Foundation grant 2022. He has also authored articles in Journal of Architecture (RIBA), Architectural Theory Review, OASE Journal for Architecture, European Planning Studies, and LA+Journal, among others.

He has been a Fulbright scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2022, and Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley College of En.vironmental Design, California (2017), at the gta Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich (2017) and at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (2018). He has lectured at the Center for Critical Studies in Architecture (CCSA), at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), at the University of Valparaiso, and at the Spanish Institute for Cultural Heritage (IPCE), where he recently coordinated the seminar “Patrimonio 20XX” and co-edited the book of the same name. Since 2024, he is an expert evaluator for the European Commission in the Creative Culture and Horizon-Europe calls, as well as an expert for the Madrid City Council in the preparation of the Strategic Plan for the City of Madrid.