‘Jujitsu Urbanism’. Lecture and brunch with David Kohn Architects, Young Architect of the Year 2009
Jujitsu Urbanism is the title of a recent essay written by David Kohn published in Materials Architecture Design Environment, Issue 5 (click here for download). The essay uses an analogy between the hard and soft techniques of martial arts and approaches to urban design to explore ideas of energy redeployment in the contemporary city.
David Kohn Architects is a young London-based practice whose recent output belongs to some of the most original and idiosyncratic work in architecture and urban design. Recent projects include a restaurant at the Royal Academy of Arts, which won a D&AD Yellow Pencil Award, a house in Norfolk and an urban design strategy for Deptford in partnership with Design for London. The practice won the Young Architect of the Year Award 2009.
Projects to be presented in the lecture include the practice's urban design consultancy for Deptford Creekside, London; Modern Art, a new gallery near Oxford Street, London; Flash, a temporary restaurant at the Royal Academy of Arts; Stable Acre, a new house in Norfolk completed in December 2009; Carrer Avinyo, the refurbishment of a piano nobile apartment in the Barrio Gotico of Barcelona; Seven Courtyards, a site beside the Forbidden City, Beijng; and Tutti a Tavola, the opening event for the 2010 Milan Furniture Fair.
For more information about David Kohn Architects, please visit http://www.davidkohn.co.uk/
