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David Hertz is founder and president of S.E.A.  David is a native Angeleno born in 1960 and resides in Venice, California.

David Hertz became interested in architecture as an adolescent.

 And, at an early age, became interested in human habitation and the juncture between the natural and built environment.  Serving as an apprentice to artists and working in construction trades gave David a tacit knowledge of construction and fabrication.

With combined studies at UCLA, he enrolled at SCI-ARC (The Southern California Institute of Architecture), where there was a real interest in ecological design at the time.

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 While there he obtained a strong foundation in pragmatic environmental design.  Before graduating, in 1983, with a Bachelor of Architecture degree from SCI-ARC, David worked in the office of Architect, John Lautner FAIA (formerly an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright).

After travel and study in Europe,