David Darling is a founding partner of Aidlin Darling Design, formed with Joshua Aidlin in 1997, with a shared interest in exploring design across a wide range of scales, programs, and disciplines including institutional, commercial and residential architecture, as well as furniture, landscape, interior, and product design. Founded on a closely held conviction that design can engage all of the senses, his work has pursued an interest in the connection between design, food, art, culture and place. David has augmented this multidisciplinary pursuit through teaching; through his involvement with the James Beard Foundation, Slow Food USA, AIA, IIDA and ASLA; and through his studio’s transdisciplinary design work. In recent years, the firm has garnered over 200 regional, national, and international awards including the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design Award for their complete body of work.