David Hotson: Founder and Principal
David Hotson_Architect is an architectural design firm based in New York City. Founded by David Hotson in 1991, the office works on private cultural, institutional, religious and residential projects located anywhere in the world.
The office focusses on shaping figural volumes of architectural space filled with natural light -- treating the sculpted figure of space as the essential medium of the art of architecture.
The office has been featured in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Architectural Record, Interior Design, Detail, The Plan, Domus, Architectural Digest, Fast Company and many other publications, and has been featured on over 500 architecture and design websites in thirty countries.
The office has been recognized by national and international awards programs.
The jury of the international Architizer A+ Awards program selected SkyHouse as the most extraordinary apartment project of the year worldwide.
SkyHouse received a Best of Year Award from the editors of Interior Design Magazine, and at the end of the first decade of the ‘Best of Year’ Awards program, SkyHouse was singled out for the ‘Best of Ten’ Award as the most extraordinary apartment of the decade..
In April 2024 the Saint Sarkis Church was the recipient of an NYC AIA Honor Award, the highest design award conferred by the New York City Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
In January 2023 the Saint Sarkis Church complex was designated as the ‘US Building of the Year’ on the influential ‘World-Architects’ web platform.
The Saint Sarkis Church was described by the architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News as “the best new building in Texas” and “the most aesthetically remarkable and emotionally moving work of architecture produced in North Texas in a generation.”
LEADERSHIP:
David Hotson, AIA: Founder and Principal
David Hotson received a Bachelor of Environmental Design degree from the University of Waterloo in southern Ontario Canada and Master of Architecture degree from the Yale University School of Architecture. After establishing his private practice in 1991, David began a period of collaborations with Yale classmate Maya Lin. From these early experiences, the office developed an extensive track record of collaborating with artists, designers, and other architects to execute projects with demanding detailing and rigorous design values. Noted collaborations include Santiago Calatrava of Valencia and Zurich, Ricardo Legorretta of Mexico City, David Adjaye of London, and other architects, artists, and designers based in the US, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, Armenia, and Japan.
David Hotson is a registered architect in the State of New York and a member of the American Institute of Architects.
Michael Konow, AIA: Director of Design and Production
Michael Konow has anchored the design, detailing, construction document production and construction administration at DHA for over fifteen years, including oversight of award-winning projects such as the SkyHouse Penthouse, the Saint Sarkis Church and Community Center.
Michael Konow is a gradate of the Pratt Institute School of Architecture. He is a licensed architect in the State of New York and a member of the American Institute of Architects.
Charles Matz, AIA RIBA: Director of Business Development
Charles Matz is an architect and industry leader with expertise in managing project strategies for the fine art, institutional, hospitality, and retail sectors. His engagement with evolving, integrated digital technologies for scanning and representing architectural space complements decades of formulating and executing the growth trajectory of companies in design, culture, media, and the arts.
He is a licensed architect in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, is certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, and is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Royal Institute of British Architects. Charles Matz graduated from the Cooper Union School of Architecture, studied at the Architectural Association in London, and holds advanced degrees from the University of Oxford—Merton and St Hugh's Colleges.