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.
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Practice | David Kohn Architects | ||||||
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Established in 2007, the practice has won a number of awards including Young Architect of the Year 2009 from Building Design magazine and INSIDE World Interior of the Year in 2013.
Red House was named House of the Year by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2022.
Current projects include new market buildings at Birmingham Smithfield, a new home for Hasselt University’s architecture faculty and the redevelopment of Modern Art Oxford.
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.