Born in Philadelphia, the KPF co-founder was instrumental in the global growth of the New York-based firm best known for its high-profile civic and cultural projects and superlatively tall skyscrapers. 

Kohn first joined the Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit as a member several years after co-founding KPF alongside William Pedersen and Sheldon Fox in 1976.

RECORD speaks with the Kohn Pederson Fox founder about his conversational autobiogra­phy, 'The World by Design: The Story of a Global Architecture Firm.'

Hidden luminaires help the three-story lobby of an office tower at Hudson Yards in New York achieve an ageless character.

Seven up-and-coming aviation projects, in various stages of planning and construction, will soon be ready for takeoff.

Firms with high head counts and deep pools of talent are ripe for creative reinvention, but vulnerable as well.

A chiseled skyscraper by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates anchors Manhattan’s new west-side neighborhood.

The steely body of KPF’s new shell for this museum’s existing structure is vibrant, yet the lighting was configured to minimize light pollution.

The City College of New York (CCNY) is a bit like an academic Acropolis. Situated in Upper Manhattan on one of the island’s highest points, its collection of early 20th-century neo-Gothic buildings, by George B. Post—and more recent additions by architects that include Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Rafael Viñoly—sit high above the surrounding neighborhood of townhouses and low-scale apartment buildings.