A photograph by Max Creasy of the Ice Cream Factory, a house in Devon designed by the practice, was selected for inclusion in this year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. This is the tenth year the practice's work has been included in the longest continuously staged exhibition of contemporary art in the world. To see all previous years' submissions visit the dedicated webpage on our website here. To learn more about the Ice Cream Factory visit the project webpage here. To purchase the photograph visit the RA website here. The exhibition runs until 23rd August. 

David was invited by leading US architecture magazine PIN-UP to choose the most influential houses of the twenty-first century. David chose Marie-José van Hee's 2003 House DF in Zuidzande, Netherlands and Moriyama House, Tokyo, 2005 by Ryue Nishizawa. To find out the full list of 40 houses, get hold of your copy at the PIN-UP website here.

David contributed an essay to "Collaborations in Housing Design: Lessons from Architect and Developer," by Crispin Kelly. The book covers the extraordinary 30-year output of one of London's most respected private developers. David Kohn Architects worked with Kelly's Baylight Property for over a decade culminating in the realisation of the project 'House on a Hill.' For details of the project visit the webpage here. To find out more about the book visit the publisher's website here. 

In an occasional dive into the practice archive, we would like to share the essay, 'Why Experience the Classics?'. David uses Italo Calvino's description of classic texts as a starting point for a plea to visit and care for significant architecture: "a classic is a work which constantly generates a pulviscular cloud of critical discourse around it, but which always shakes the particles off." Read the article on the studio website here. Originally published in 'Jim Stirling and the Red Trilogy: Three Radical Buildings,' ed. Alan Berman (Frances Lincoln, 2010).