David Kohn (architect)

David Kohn (born 3 October 1972) is a British architect. His practice, David Kohn Architects, is based in London and works internationally on arts, education and residential projects.

David Kohn
Born (1972-10-03) 3 October 1972 (age 51)
Further information
OccupationArchitect
AwardsYoung Architect of the Year (2009)
World Interior of the Year (2013)
PracticeDavid Kohn Architects
Buildings

Established in 2007, the practice has won a number of awards including Young Architect of the Year 2009 from Building Design magazine[1] and INSIDE World Interior of the Year in 2013.[2]

Red House[3] was named House of the Year by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2022.[4]

Current projects include new market buildings at Birmingham Smithfield,[5] a new home for Hasselt University’s architecture faculty[6] and the redevelopment of Modern Art Oxford.[7]

Kohn was born in Cape Town and studied architecture at the University of Cambridge and at Columbia University GSAPP, New York, as a Fulbright Scholar. He taught architecture at the Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design, between 2003 and 2013 and was a visiting professor at KU Leuven between 2014 and 2016.

Kohn is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Trustee of Stratford Circus Arts Centre.[citation needed]

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Significant buildings edit

 
Gradel Quadrangles for New College, Oxford, nearing completion, March 2024

References edit

  1. ^ "Young Architect of the Year 2009: David Kohn Architects". Building Design Online Edition. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  2. ^ ""There was all this potential but it was being held back by the architecture" – Interview with David Kohn". Inside Festival. 2013.
  3. ^ "The Red House". Royal Institute of British Architects.
  4. ^ ""Ordinary yet quirky" Red House in Dorset named UK's best new home". Dezeen.
  5. ^ "David Kohn wins Birmingham Smithfield competition". Architects' Journal.
  6. ^ "David Kohn wins Belgian architecture faculty contest". Architects' Journal.
  7. ^ "David Kohn picked for Oxford modern art gallery refurb". Architects'Journal.
  8. ^ Peter Carl (20 March 2009). "David Kohn's 'Hedgehog and the Fox' lecture and exhibition at the London Met". Architects' Journal (online ed.). Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  9. ^ Ellis Woodman (27 March 2013). "Homage to Catalonia". Building Design. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  10. ^ Rowan Moore (15 July 2012). "The White Building/Lea River Park – review". The Observer. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  11. ^ Edwin Heathcote (1 August 2012). "Kohn's ark". ICON. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  12. ^ Rowan Moore (15 January 2012). "A Room for London – review". The Observer. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  13. ^ "'Discover: All That S|2 Offers'". Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  14. ^ "Nuovo quad per il New College, Oxford". Domus. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  15. ^ "'Discover: All That S|2 Offers'". Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  16. ^ "Red House, Dorset: the shape of post-post-post modernism?". The Observer.
  17. ^ "Eclectic dreams: David Kohn's Greenwich Design District buildings". Architects' Journal.
  18. ^ "Cowshed in Devon, United Kingdom by David Kohn Architects". The Architectural Review.
  19. ^ "Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery". The Observer.

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