David Hertz is the founder and president of David Hertz FAIA Architects and S.E.A., the Studio of Environmental Architecture, and skysource.org in 2016. In 2018, David led his team at Skysource to become the Grand Prize winner in the Water Abundance XPRIZE out of a field of 98 teams from 27 countries to make 2,000 liters of water from air in 24 hours using 100% renewable energy at a cost of less than 2 cents / liter.

David is a founding member of the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE)as well as the USGBÇ and was involved in the first LEED Platinum Commercialand Residential Projects in the U.S. Since 1990 David has been on the Academic Advisory Committee and the faculty of the UCLA Arc-ID Program teaching sustainable design courses. In 2020 David’s work was featured in the series launch Apple’s new Apple PlusTVnetwork entitled HOME which was nominated for an Emmy Award.

David serves on the board of directors of Heal The Bay and is involved in numerous social and environmental non-profits, including founding the GO Water Initiative with the Go Campaign, where he is bringing atmospheric water generators through skysource.org to address water scarcity and water quality worldwide.