David Kohn Architects’ first monograph is a shock in 12 components

David Kohn based his studio in 2007, swiftly discovering a particular architectural voice. In lower than twenty years, DKA has develop into one of many pre-eminent ‘younger’ British companies, with a world popularity, a broad portfolio that features necessary cultural and academic commissions in addition to non-public homes, and a number of other awards.

Inside ‘Phases’, a brand new ebook on David Kohn’s structure

Phases is the observe’s first ebook. Like Kohn’s strategy to structure, it’s something however easy, subversively pitched in a method that honours the historical past and custom of the architectural monograph whereas additionally developing with one thing solely unique. Edited by the author and curator Moritz Küng, Phases is shaped from 12 particular person books, assembled collectively through ring binding and offered in a slip case.

Every particular person ‘ebook’ takes on a special format and focuses on a special challenge or strategy. They comprise An Architect’s E book, Fables & Figures, White Extensive Partitions, The Hedgehog And The Fox, Collaboration Objects, Scenographies, Rural Codes, Solely A Wall, Up to date Faculty, November 2024, Jujitsu Urbanism, and Different Room, mixing drawings, particulars, reportage and challenge images, in addition to musings on course of, place and architectural historical past.

The challenge brings collectively an eclectic set of contributors. There are texts from Ellis Woodman, Lydia Yee and Jonathan Anderson, Oona Bannon and Russell Pinch, Peter and Suzanne Redstone, Edward Turner and Kohn himself, alongside inventive contributions from Fiona Banner (who labored with Kohn on A Room for London in 2012).

That challenge is included right here, as is the Crimson Home in Dorset, topped RIBA Home of the Yr 2022, the brand new quad at New Faculty, Oxford, and in addition to the ‘Jerome’ workstation Kohn designed for Wallpaper* Handmade on the Salone del Cellular in 2011, created in collaboration with Porro, and the pavilion he created with Change Performing Arts and DWA Design Studio for Handmade 2012.

Phases was designed by Armand Mevis and in lots of respects resembles a pattern ebook in addition to a compendium of particular person inventive publications. It serves as an academic journey by means of an knowledgeable structure that’s usually esoteric and eccentric however by no means missing in mental rigour or technical precision.

Phases, David Kohn Architects, edited by Moritz Küng, König Books, €60, buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de and £60 from Amazon