David Kohn (born 3 October 1972) is a British architect. His practice, , is based in London and works internationally on arts, education and residential projects.

The Gradel Quadrangles, New College Oxford by David Kohn Architects - view of porters' lodge and tower
Red House, Dorset by David Kohn Architects. Winner, RIBA House of the Year 2022

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, and the Royal institute of British Architects House of the Year Award for Red House in 2022. David Kohn was previously named Young Architect of the Year 2009 by Building Design magazine and won INSIDE World Interior of the Year in 2013.

David Kohn Architects completed a redevelopment of Hasselt Beguinage in partnership with to create a new home for Hasselt University's architecture faculty in 2025, a new campus for New College, Oxford and the redevelopment of Modern Art Oxford in 2024, and a new London space for in 2023. Current projects include new market buildings at Birmingham Smithfield, and a major redevelopment of the S.M.A.K. museum in Ghent, Belgium (in partnership with noAarchitecten and Asli Çiçek).

Stages - the first comprehenive monograph of David Kohn Architects' work - was published in 2026.

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]

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