After a string of years bouncing around the map, in 2017 I mainly traced the triangle between Minneapolis, Chicago, and France.

A modernist city designed by Le Corbusier's mentor, Auguste Perret, sits on the coast of Normandy.

One of the things I was most excited about for my visit to Ethiopia with Brian Ashby and Susannah Ribstein was the opportunity to see its modernist buildings. The thing was, I didn’t really know what we would see.

2016 was another year of travel, but unlike previous years, my explorations were more international than domestic: for more than two months I made work in Belgium, Ethiopia, France, Ireland, Japan, Northern Ireland, and the United Arab Emirates.

I hadn't been to New Orleans in more than five years when I landed at Louis Armstrong on Tuesday, so I was anxious to get back out in the city.

When Yohei Morita and I visited Tōhoku, Japan in 2014, I was most affected by the areas decimated by the tsunami -- but it wasn't for the reasons one might imagine.

One of the unexpected experiences of my trip to Ethiopia's Tigray region was witnessing the daily conflict between local boys and gelada monkeys.

Six years ago, I started a project about two annual events in Belfast, Northern Ireland: the Loyalist bonfires of Eleventh Night and the Orange Order parades of The Twelfth.

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• The Area will have its world premiere at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April 2018.
• "Brutal Destruction," an exhibition documenting the ongoing ruination of significant works of concrete architecture, opens 4/12 at over,under's Pinkcomma Gallery. David will be showing his photographs of Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital.
• On March 17, David will be discussing and screening selections from The Area at the Tulane School of Architecture Design Symposium.
• David participated in two events in Chicago: a screening of scenes from The Area and conversation with Jackie Stewart at the University of Chicago on February 9 and a conversation with Marshall Brown at the Hyde Park Art Center on February 27.
• Mining Basin (Hauts-de-France) opened at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago on January 14.
• Resilient Images, David's exhibition with Justine Pluvinage at the CRP/ in Douchy-les-Mines, France, opened on September 23. The opening was preceded by a lecture at CAUE du Nord in Lille, France on September 19.
• David participated in "Crosstalk: Conversations on Architecture and Citizenship" at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on September 16.
• On September 15, David was in conversation with Muriel Enjalran and Megha Ralapati at Expo Chicago, where he discussed his new project in the North of France.
• David's work on the Chicago Housing Authority is exhibited at the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, which opened September 16 and runs through the beginning of 2018.
• The Graham Foundation awarded David and collaborator Michael Carriere a grant for their book project, The City Creative: The Rise of Placemaking in Urban America.
• The Area, the documentary film David is directing with Scrappers Film Group, has been awarded one of ten spots in IFP's Documentary Labs.
• On April 8, David presented during the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's "Trash Talks: The Afterlives of Buildings."
• The Isolated Building Studies were recently features in Topos Magazine and South Side Weekly.
• David gave two talks in the Hauts-de-France region during his residency. The first was at La Chambre d’Eau on January 20, second was at the École Supérieure d'Art et de Design de Valenciennes on the 24th. Read a little about the former in La Voix du Nord.
• On January 1st, David started the second phase of his residency in the North of France. Read about it in a short interview with the Centre Régional de la Photographie Nord Pas-de-Calais.
• Scrappers Film Group celebrated five years of filming The Area at Lost Arts in Chicago on Friday, December 9th. See the full event details on Facebook.