DAN KOH ONLINE INFORMATION

PROFILE
kohutdanielle [@] gmail.com
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Danielle Kohut is a first-generation American architect, born in California and raised by a motherhood of mountains. She constructs situations that question the divide between human and natural processes, proposing instead a continuity between organic and industrial life.

Currently, she [me] is pursuing dual paths of artistry and academia in relating domestic architecture plan and program to a culture’s embodied understanding of the membrane between man and nature. Danielle hopes to pursue further opportunities in ethnographic studies of the far North.

CONTACT

Education

Southern California Institue of Architecture [SCI-Arc]
Master of Architecture
_architecture for extreme environments
2024

Dartmouth College
Bachelor of Arts & Sciences
_graphic narratives & Native American studies
2019

Stanford Education Program for Gifted Youth
highschool
2015

Employment

Technical Museum of Iceland
2026

Freelance Fire Consultant
2025 🐦‍🔥

Tatiana Bilbao Estudios
2023

Morphosis
2022

Gehry Partners ✮⋆˙
2022

Referrals

Frank Gehry
_Gehry Partners

Tatiana Bilbao
_Tatiana Bilbao Estudios

David Ruy
_SCI Arc / Ruy Klein

Skills

Skiing
Driving
Designing
Architecting
Bitching
Moaning

Exhibitions

(upcoming) ‘Be Me, Coffee’
Profeta Gallery & Cafe
Los Angeles, California, USA
2026

‘If you make a motor turn in reverse, you do not break it: you build a refrigerator’
Føroya Fólkaháskuli
Torshavn, Faroe Islands
2026

‘Floorplan’
Unit 2 Art Gallery
St. Leonards, UK
2026

(multiple) LungA School
Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2026

‘Remonstering’
Taos Center for the Arts,
Taos Arts Institute
Taos, NM, USA
2025

‘Big Small Things, Small Big Things’
Anderson Ranch Arts Center Snowmass, Colorado, USA
2025

Thesis Exhibition
SCI-Arc
Los Angeles, CA, USA
2024

Residencies

(current) LungA School
Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2026

Teachings

Dry Stone Walls
workshop
Little Sycamore Canyon
Malibu, CA, USA
2025

Philosophy of Architecture I
assistant teacher
SCI-Arc
Los Angeles, CA, USA
2023-4

Writing for Design
assistant teacher
SCI-Arc
Los Angeles, CA, USA
2023

Education EXT

Fall Winter
LungA School
Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2026

The Home of Art & Art in the Home
Berlin Art Institute
Dagmara Genda
2025

Japanese Dry Stone Walling
The Canelo Project
Reo Kaneko & Kyle Holzhueter
2025

For, Against, After, Towards—Architecture Beyond the Human
Institute for Postnatural Studies
Filipa Ramos
2025

Big Small Things or Small Big Things
Anderson Ranch Arts Center
Kathy Barkan
2025

Last Updated 24.10.31

MATERIAL [TEASER]

In The Garage

digital photography
craft paper, tape, creature
2025

This still life seeks to represent an in-home documentation area. Dan Koh is interested in the aesthetics of vacancy and purity applied to domestic spaces as a performance of feminine perfection. For the first time ever in the history of our species, signs of wealth and power are broadcasted not by opulence, but by austerity.

Turf Talks

radio show
sound, audio, spoken poetry, performance
2026

Endangered Architecture presents: turftalks, a three part series on turffacts, turffiction, and turffables. Aired live on Seydisfjordur Community Radio during a winter at the LungA School, Turf Talks weaved academic and cultural content for your listening pleasure. Listen now on soundcloud.

I Love the LA River

digital drawing
print on paper
2024

Powers have employed the triptych to communicate binary fables to unlearned masses. Good and evil, heaven and hell, future and past, have shouldered mediocre, dismal, and present depictions of humankind. The artist applies these fabrications to cultural misunderstandings of the arroyo before, during, and after Los Angeles.

Mabel’s House

sculpture
upcycled hot rolled steel, nuts, bolts
2025

The home as a protective enclosure. An external tectonic for extreme internal hollowness provides purity.

Best in Show

sculpture + performance
plant, animal, stone, steel
2026

Environmental abberation, grading nature, finding a winner, finding a loser. Species identification and representation through human actors during live gallery installation, with playscript accompaniament.

Rural Economic Development, Phase I

sculpture
sheep hair raw, sheep hair spun
2026

Instead of humans imitating the environment, the environment imitating humans. Unsynthesized ‘natural’ materials pretending to be building blocks for a real 100% Icelandic rural development scheme.

Icelandic Kokedama

biotica
plant, animal, stone
2026

Crowberry encased in long-lasting but biodegradable sheep hair (roots nestled in lava rock) as an ecological exercise against erosion.

4. Performance Column

engineering experiment
hempcrete, resin, stone
2024

This piece plays with scale and transparency to visualize key materials of structural concrete and steel. 6 blocks, 6’ tall [3 blocks pictured].

5. Sentimental Shelters

living creation
dead things, alive things
2025

The artist investigates life after death. And a post-climate future in which recycled shelters populate an aquaterrestria of no boundaries.