David Benjamin is a Principal of the architecture firm The Living and an Assistant Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Winners of this year's MoMA PS1 competition with their project Hy-Fi, The Living brings new technologies to life in the built environment, through their integration of design innovation and sustainability within the public realm. The Living believes cities and buildings are living, breathing organisms and as such, within the context of rapid change and new urban challenges, that design should generate living, breathing ecosystems. Their clients include the City of New York, Seoul Municipal Government, Airbus, Nike, 3M, Quantified Self, and Miami Science Museum.