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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.
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.
Education
- 1997 MA and Diploma in Architecture, Jesus College, Cambridge University
- 1994 BA (Hons) Architecture, Jesus College, Cambridge University
Significant buildings
- (2008) Flash[8] at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
- (2009) Stable Acre, Norfolk
- (2010) Skyroom, London
- (2011) Thomas Dane Gallery, Mayfair, London
- (2012) Carrer Avinyó, Barcelona[9]
- (2012) The White Building,[10] Hackney Wick, London
- (2012) A Room for London,[11][12] Living Architecture
- (2014) Sotheby's S|2, London[13]
- (2012–2020) Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
- (2015–2021) New Campus Savile Road, New College, Oxford[14]
- (2017–2018) V&A Photography Centre,[15]
- (2020) Red House[16]
- (2022) Greenwich Design District [17]
- (2022) Cow Shed[18]
- (2023) Exhibition design for Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery at Kettle’s Yard[19]
References
- ↑ "Young Architect of the Year 2009: David Kohn Architects". Building Design Online Edition. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- ↑ ""There was all this potential but it was being held back by the architecture" – Interview with David Kohn". Inside Festival. 2013.
- ↑ "The Red House". Royal Institute of British Architects.
- ↑ ""Ordinary yet quirky" Red House in Dorset named UK's best new home". Dezeen.
- ↑ "David Kohn wins Birmingham Smithfield competition". Architects' Journal.
- ↑ "David Kohn wins Belgian architecture faculty contest". Architects' Journal.
- ↑ "David Kohn picked for Oxford modern art gallery refurb". Architects'Journal.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ellis Woodman (27 March 2013). "Homage to Catalonia". Building Design. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- ↑ Rowan Moore (15 July 2012). "The White Building/Lea River Park – review". The Observer. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- ↑ Edwin Heathcote (1 August 2012). "Kohn's ark". ICON. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- ↑ Rowan Moore (15 January 2012). "A Room for London – review". The Observer. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- ↑ "'Discover: All That S|2 Offers'". Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- ↑ "Nuovo quad per il New College, Oxford". Domus. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- ↑ "'Discover: All That S|2 Offers'". Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- ↑ "Red House, Dorset: the shape of post-post-post modernism?". The Observer.
- ↑ "Eclectic dreams: David Kohn's Greenwich Design District buildings". Architects' Journal.
- ↑ "Cowshed in Devon, United Kingdom by David Kohn Architects". The Architectural Review.
- ↑ "Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery". The Observer.
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