David Kohn (architect)
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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 the Manser Medal - Architects Journal House of the Year Award - for Cowshed in 2023,[1] and the Royal institute of British Architects House of the Year Award for Red House in 2022.[2] David Kohn was previously named Young Architect of the Year 2009 by Building Design magazine[3] and won INSIDE World Interior of the Year in 2013.[4]
David Kohn Architects completed a redevelopment of Hasselt Beguinage in partnership with Bovenbouw Architectuur to create a new home for Hasselt University's architecture faculty in 2025[5], a new campus for New College, Oxford[6] and the redevelopment of Modern Art Oxford in 2024,[7] and a new London space for Stephen Friedman Gallery in 2023. Current projects include new market buildings at Birmingham Smithfield,[8] and a major redevelopment of the S.M.A.K. museum in Ghent, Belgium (in partnership with noAarchitecten and Asli Çiçek)[9].
Stages - the first comprehenive monograph of David Kohn Architects' work - was published in 2026.[10]
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 Architectural Association School of Architecture between 2019 and 2024, 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.
Education
- 1997 MA and Diploma in Architecture, Jesus College, Cambridge University
- 1994 BA (Hons) Architecture, Jesus College, Cambridge University
Significant buildings
- (2025) Hasselt Beguinage, Hasselt, Belgium[11]
- (2015–2024) The Gradel Quadrangles, New College, Oxford[12]
- (2024) Modern Art Oxford
- (2023) Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
- (2023) Exhibition design for Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge[13]
- (2022) Cowshed, Devon[14]
- (2022) Greenwich Design District, London [15]
- (2020) Red House, Dorset[16]
- (2017–2018) V&A Photography Centre, London[17]
- (2012–2020) Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
- (2014) Sotheby's S|2, London[18]
- (2012) A Room for London,[19][20] Living Architecture
- (2012) The White Building,[21] Hackney Wick, London
- (2012) Carrer Avinyó, Barcelona[22]
- (2011) Thomas Dane Gallery, Mayfair, London
- (2010) Skyroom, London
- (2009) Stable Acre, Norfolk
- (2008) Flash[23] at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
References
- ^ Wilson, Rob (22 November 2023). "Cowshed retrofit wins Manser Medal – AJ House of the Year 2023". The Architects’ Journal. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
- ^ "RIBA House of the Year 2022". www.architecture.com. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Moore, Rowan. "How a ruined religious complex became a modern university..." The Observer. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
- ^ Wainwright, Oliver (1 April 2025). "A tower topped with a pangolin! The Oxford university building inspired by Tolkien … and the pandemic". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
- ^ "Modern Art Oxford gallery gets a £2m revamp". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 28 October 2024. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
- ^ "David Kohn wins Birmingham Smithfield competition". Architects' Journal. 26 January 2023.
- ^ Charles, Starr (18 June 2024). "Plans for "varied and playful" redesign of Ghent art museum unveiled". Dezeen. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
- ^ David Kohn Architects; Kohn, David; Küng, Moritz, eds. (2025). Stages - David Kohn Architects. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König. ISBN 978-3-7533-0891-3.
- ^ Moore, Rowan. "How a ruined religious complex became a modern university..." The Observer. Retrieved 16 March 2026.
- ^ "Nuovo quad per il New College, Oxford". Domus. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- ^ Cooke, Rachel (12 March 2023). "Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery". The Observer.
- ^ "Cowshed in Devon, United Kingdom by David Kohn Architects". The Architectural Review. 23 March 2023.
- ^ "Eclectic dreams: David Kohn's Greenwich Design District buildings". Architects' Journal. 26 April 2022.
- ^ Moore, Rowan (16 January 2022). "Red House, Dorset: the shape of post-post-post modernism?". The Observer.
- ^ "'Discover: All That S|2 Offers'". Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- ^ "'Discover: All That S|2 Offers'". Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- ^ Edwin Heathcote (1 August 2012). "Kohn's ark". ICON. Archived from the original on 6 March 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- ^ Rowan Moore (15 January 2012). "A Room for London – review". The Observer. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- ^ Rowan Moore (15 July 2012). "The White Building/Lea River Park – review". The Observer. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- ^ Ellis Woodman (27 March 2013). "Homage to Catalonia". Building Design. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
- ^ 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.
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