David Kohn (architect) explained
David Kohn |
Birth Date: | 3 October 1972 |
Practice: | David Kohn Architects |
Significant Buildings: | - (2008) Flash at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
- (2010) Skyroom, London
(2009) Stable Acre, Norfolk - (2011) Thomas Dane Gallery, Mayfair, London
- (2012) Carrer Avinyó, Barcelona
- (2012) The White Building, Hackney Wick, London
- (2012) A Room for London, Living Architecture
- (2014) Sotheby's S|2, London
- (2012–2020) Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
- (2015–2021) New Campus Savile Road, New College, Oxford
- (2017–2018) V&A Photography Centre
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Awards: | Young Architect of the Year (2009) World Interior of the Year (2013) |
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
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]
Notes and References
- Web site: Young Architect of the Year 2009: David Kohn Architects. Building Design Online Edition. 9 September 2016.
- Web site: "There was all this potential but it was being held back by the architecture" – Interview with David Kohn . . 2013 . Inside Festival .
- Web site: The Red House. Royal Institute of British Architects.
- Web site: "Ordinary yet quirky" Red House in Dorset named UK's best new home. Dezeen.
- Web site: David Kohn wins Birmingham Smithfield competition . Architects' Journal.
- Web site: David Kohn wins Belgian architecture faculty contest. Architects' Journal.
- Web site: David Kohn picked for Oxford modern art gallery refurb. Architects'Journal.
- News: David Kohn's 'Hedgehog and the Fox' lecture and exhibition at the London Met. Architects' Journal. online. Peter Carl. 2009-03-20. 2017-03-05.
- Web site: Homage to Catalonia. Building Design. Ellis Woodman. 2013-03-27. 2017-03-05.
- News: The White Building/Lea River Park – review. The Observer. Rowan Moore. 2012-07-15. 2017-03-05.
- Web site: Kohn's ark. ICON. Edwin Heathcote. 2012-08-01. 2017-03-05.
- News: A Room for London – review. The Observer. Rowan Moore. 2012-01-15. 2017-03-05.
- Web site: 'Discover: All That S|2 Offers'. 2017-03-05.
- Web site: Nuovo quad per il New College, Oxford. Domus. 997. 2015-12-01. 2017-03-05.
- Web site: 'Discover: All That S|2 Offers'. 2017-07-05.
- Web site: Red House, Dorset: the shape of post-post-post modernism?. The Observer.
- Web site: Eclectic dreams: David Kohn’s Greenwich Design District buildings. Architects' Journal.
- Web site: Cowshed in Devon, United Kingdom by David Kohn Architects. The Architectural Review.
- Web site: Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery. The Observer.