David Kohn Architects: Stages

Join us for the book launch of David Kohn Architects: Stages

This first comprehensive monograph surveys the work of London-based David Kohn Architects. Twelve autonomous 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. Together, they form an eclectic sample book in which the architect’s book is conceived in the spirit of the artist’s book, a format with its own logic and identity.

The event will be introduced by Ellis Woodman and Ingrid Schroder, Director of The AA School of Architecture. We will be joined by David Kohn, Fiona Banner, and Moritz Küng for a discussion to mark the launch of this brilliant new publication. The book will be available at a special launch price of £55 (RRP £60).

David Kohn is director of his eponymous London-based studio founded in 2007. The studio works internationally on arts, education and residential projects. He has been teaching for 20 years, most recently at the AA, and will be a visiting professor at Yale University in 2027.

Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press (b.1966, Merseyside) explores language, gender and conflict through drawing, sculpture, performance and film. Her work examines how language shapes understanding, often reinterpreting war and cultural imagery. Included amongst her seminal works are the 1997 book The Nam and the 2010 Tate Duveen Commission, Harrier Jaguar. In 2012, Banner collaborated with David Kohn on Le Roi des Belges, a venue that staged performances reflecting upon the complex cultural history of Britain.

Moritz Küng is a Barcelona-based curator, critic, and editor, who works at the intersection of art, architecture and contemporary publishing. Currently he writes a bi-monthly column about artists’ books for the Brussels-based art newspaper De Witte Raaf and is one of the external experts for Le Prix Bob Calle du livre d’artists.

Ellis Woodman is Director of the Architecture Foundation. Former editor of Building Design and Daily Telegraph architecture critic, he has written extensively on contemporary architecture. His books include Modernity and Reinvention (2008) and Temples and Tombs (2019). His biography of Austen St. Barbe Harrison, The Unenglishman, will publish in 2026.