Martin Kohn

 
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Martin is a founding principal of Kohn Shnier. He brings a rigorous and straightforward approach to bear on the office. A committment to the city and response to programme was influenced by his early apprenticeship at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture with Pritzker Prize winning Dutch architect, Rem Koolhaus. Projects under his direction include The Claude Watson School for the Arts and The Student Centre at the University of Toronto at Mississauga.

Martin was the key designer of the Q-House; a prefabricated prototype for Royal Homes. He put his knowledge on pre-fab to the test in the execution of The Muskoka House, a two-family house which was 70% factory made and 30% site constructed. Other residential projects in his portfolio include The Laneway Residence, The Hillhurst Residence and the Scarborough Residence. Martin also stewards all of our projects for Dufflet Pastries.

Martin is an avid cyclist, extreme skier and rock climber.

John Shnier

 
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In 1987 John Shnier was awarded Canada’s first Prix de Rome in Architecture. His tenure in Rome included founding and renovating the venue for all future Laureates. He co-founded Kohn Shnier with Martin Kohn shortly after returning from Italy.

He was Partner-in-Charge of The 519 Church Street Community Centre, The Shore and Moffat Library and Eric Arthur Gallery; both at the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design, as well as the EJ Pratt Library at Victoria University. John has designed and led the teams responsible for Umbra projects and his residential projects include House at Riding Mountain National Park, Lake House, and The House on Webatuck Creek in Connecticut. John is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Programme at the Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design at The University of Toronto. He was the 2007 recipient of the Sheff Visiting Chair in Architecture at McGill University School of Architecture in Montreal. In that same year, Shnier was honoured by the Governor General as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Canada Council for the Arts.

John rides his bike, but not quite as seriously as Martin.