David Kohn Architects
builds enduring ideas
Jun 2025We are hiring
With a number of UK projects moving into their next phases and several new international projects, we are now hiring at all levels. Please view our dedicated careers webpage here and follow links to opportunities for a senior architect, studio manager, project architect and Part 1 and 2 architectural assistants. We can only consider applications made through our dedicated careers website - please do not send emails. We look forward to hearing from you.
Jun 2025RA Summer Exhibition 2025
A drawing of the tower at the Gradel Quadrangles by David Kohn has been selected for inclusion in the 2025 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. This is the ninth occasion work by the studio has been selected in what is the world's largest, and oldest, open submission exhibition - see all years here. Anyone can enter and the work is selected by Royal Academicians. The exhibition is open from 17 June to 17 August 2025. Visit the RA webpage here for more details.
May 2025Milan Lecture 19.05.25
David will be giving a lecture in Milan on 19th May as part of Italian architecture journal, Casabella's 'Laboratorio' series. The occasion coincides with the publication of New College in the April issue 968: "Ways of Living". Massimo Curzi writes, "Knowing the ambition and culture of the English architect, the extremely challenging project could be seen as an important turning point in his very personal professional career." For more information visit the Casabella website here. The lecture is open to the public and all are welcome.
Apr 2025Gradel Quads Press
"With its Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford, David Kohn Architects has created a striking, sinuous addition that teases and plays innovatively with materials, building techniques and architectural forms" Rob Wilson, Architect's Journal 20.03.25
The completion of the £55M Gradel Quadrangles has been widely covered in the press:
The Guardian
Architect’s Journal
RIBA Journal
Building Design
Wallpaper*
Metropolis
Visit our website page for further project details.
Mar 2025SMAK in A+
"There must be few missions more complex than the project for the new S.M.A.K." writes Pieter T’Jonck in the current Belgian architecture magazine A+ about our ongoing work to expand the museum in Ghent. Won in collaboration with NoA Architecten and Asli Ciçek through an international design competition in 2024, our proposal includes retaining all materials on site to be repurposed - likely to be one of the largest circular construction cultural projects in Europe. Read more about Issue 311, "Circular Plans," at the A+ website here.