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Washington Ave

Illustrations for a retail and entertainment development in Houston, TX. 2024. Private client.

Merlin Yard

Renovation, Houston, TX. 2021.

A long floating vanity covered in walnut becomes the centerpiece of a renovated master bathroom with a simple material palette. The transformation presents the tub, shower, and vanity as separate and pure pieces of geometry.

A long floating vanity covered in walnut becomes the centerpiece of a renovated master bathroom with a simple material palette. The transformation presents the tub, shower, and vanity as separate and pure pieces of geometry.

River Oaks

Interior renovation, Houston, TX. 2020

BCP

Single-family renovations, Houston, TX 2019–21.

Collective masterplan for Midtown Houston for medium-density housing across ten parcels. The individual architectural proposal takes the form of three slender towers with modest one and two bedroom apartments. An irreguar central core ‘wobbles’ around the center of each tower to produce a number of self-similar unit types.

Collective masterplan for Midtown Houston for medium-density housing across ten parcels. The individual architectural proposal takes the form of three slender towers with modest one and two bedroom apartments. An irreguar central core ‘wobbles’ around the center of each tower to produce a number of self-similar unit types.

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

Masterplan for Midtown Houston, Rice University, 2018.

An ideas competition to speculate on an unfinished Loire chateau project based on plans by Leonardo de Vinci. The competition invited 20 international architecture schools to envision a plan for the next 500 years of the Domaine de Chambord, a walled-off royal ground designed on utopian ideals. The project won two national awards including the AIA’s award dedicated to student work. The proposal from Rice University responds to fears of imminent climate disaster and the destruction of national heritage and seeks to establish a positive relationship with the unique ecology of the site.

An ideas competition to speculate on an unfinished Loire chateau project based on plans by Leonardo de Vinci. The competition invited 20 international architecture schools to envision a plan for the next 500 years of the Domaine de Chambord, a walled-off royal ground designed on utopian ideals. The project won two national awards including the AIA’s award dedicated to student work. The proposal from Rice University responds to fears of imminent climate disaster and the destruction of national heritage and seeks to establish a positive relationship with the unique ecology of the site.

Aprés le dèluge (After the Flood)

Completed with Will Letchinger, Rice University, 2019.

In our perception, the built environment tends to disappear into the background through habit and routine. A representational ‘sameness’ allows subtle differences to foreground in our perception.

The project takes a sociological definition of space, positing the latent potential of third places to mediate between the privacy of our domestic environments and our public spheres within the context of our everyday social environment.

Sited in a fictional urban context, the project disguises itself as a normative five-story building containing spaces for domestic, professional, and social activities.

In our perception, the built environment tends to disappear into the background through habit and routine. A representational ‘sameness’ allows subtle differences to foreground in our perception.

The project takes a sociological definition of space, positing the latent potential of third places to mediate between the privacy of our domestic environments and our public spheres within the context of our everyday social environment.

Sited in a fictional urban context, the project disguises itself as a normative five-story building containing spaces for domestic, professional, and social activities.

Third

M Arch thesis, Rice University, 2020.

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Wienbola

Competition for the New Vienna Musueum with Ryan Ball and Kyle Winston. Vienna, Austria, 2015.

Sketchbook

2011-18

About

Jonathan is a registered architect in New York and designer at Kohn Pedersen Fox with domestic and international work experience.

New Zealand born and dual-national.

English (native), French (working), Spanish (basic).

Practice

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

Designer, New York, NY. 2020–Present

Tolila+Gilliland Atelier d’Architecture

Intern, Paris, France. 2019

Perkins+Will

Designer, Dallas, TX. 2016–17

Adrian Smith+Gordon Gill Architecture,

Designer, Chicago, IL. 2015–16

Fearon Hay

Intern, Auckland, New Zealand. 2013

Gensler

Intern, Chicago, IL. 2013

Education

2020, Master of Architecture

Rice University. Houston, TX

2015, Bachelor of Science in Architecture

University of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, OH

Research

2020, ReImagine Town Hall, The Architectural League of New York

2020, “The Anonymous Client: fala Speaks in Houston,” Cite Digital, Rice Design Alliance

2019, Co-author, Après le déluge (After the flood), Chambord 1519–2019: L’utopie à l’œuvre, Chambord, France.

2018, Co-author, “Nuclear: Landmarker for a Waste Isolation Site,” WM Symposia, Phoenix, AZ.

2017–19, Research Assistant, David Costanza Studio, Houston, TX

2017, “Guimard Metropolitain” (Truetype font), featured in Maxwell Roberts’ Metropolitain: The Paris Metro of the Early 20th Century in Art Nouveau.

Commissions

2024, Polk St, Houston, TX

2024, Washington Ave, Houston, TX

2021, Merlin Yard, Spring Valley Village, TX

2020 River Oaks, Houston, TX

2019–20, Bayou City Properties, Houston, TX

Award

2019

Chambord Inachevé Jury Prize, AIA/ASCA COTE Top Ten for Students, SARA NY Design Award, AIA Fort Worth Honor Award, Margaret Everson-Fossi Traveling Fellowship, Morris R. Pittman Traveling Fellowship

2015

First Place: PINarchitecture: The Nearsighted Wall

2014

Honorable Mention: Architectural Congress of Ohio Pavilion

Play Video

Two Minutes

A gas station in Dallas offers something unexpected, 2016.

Nuclear

Promotional video, landmarker for a waste isolation site (collaboration with Arch out Loud), 2020.

The Wall & the Death Strip

Berlin site, 2014.

Washington Ave

Merlin Yard

River Oaks

BCP

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

Aprés le dèluge (After the Flood)

Third

Wienbola

About

Practice

Education

Research

​Commissions

Award

Two Minutes

Nuclear

The Wall & the Death Strip

Commissions