David Kohn (architect)
British architect (born 1972)
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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.
RIBA House of the Year (2022)
World Interior of the Year (2013)
Young Architect of the Year (2009)
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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. [citation needed]
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
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