Nov 2025
Practice 'Omnigraph'
David Kohn Architects has published 'Stages' - a unique collection of twelve autonomous and lavishly illustrated publications varying in size, scope and subject matter offer insights into the studio’s output since its founding in 2007. Each section, distinct in form and content, presents an aspect of the studio’s design process from a different analytical, artistic, critical or editorial point of view. Published by König Books it is available at all good booksellers and the AA Bookshop.
Oxford - Brussels
David Kohn spoke at a symposium with former Brussels Master Architect Kristiaan Borret at New College Oxford where David Kohn Architects designed the Gradel Quadrangles. Organised by the Embassy of Belgium, the idea was to learn from the Belgian Bouwmeester approach to urban regeneration and embed good placemaking and design in Oxford. You can watch a video of Kristiaan explaining how they deliver architectural competitions in Brussels here.
C4 Grand Designs
David is jury chair for the RIBA House of the Year 2025 award which is being televised on C4 Grand Designs, 9pm Wednesday evenings. Episodes can be watched online here with the winner will be announced on 10th December. The practice won the award the last time it was televised in 2022 with the Red House and the final episode of that series can be watched here.
Hasselt Press
Architect Bie Plevoets describes how the "delicate intervention gives the ruin" of the Hasselt convent "a new identity" - it is "no longer a mere romantic fragment, but a distinct architectural space that once again takes its place as the heart of the beguinage." She describes how the "tower re-establishes the beguinage as a vertical marker in the city’s skyline, signalling the presence of the university. Yet it does so not as an act of domination, but as a gentle, friendly gesture – an invitation to the city and its inhabitants." Read the full article in Architecture Today.
European Lectures
David has been giving lectures about the work of the studio internationally. As a guest of A+ Architecture in Belgium, the lecture given at Bozar is now available to view online. David also spoke in Hamburg about the studio's work with artists. On Thursday 27th September David will speak in Stockholm for the Stockholm Society of Architects. Tickets are free and all are welcome.