Kevin Hirth

KEVIN HIRTH Co. can be found in Denver, Colorado. A multivalent design practice, we design homes, offices, galleries, shops, kitchen tables, cabins, exhibitions, gardens, garages, towers, and tool sheds.

HIRTHCo operates across mediums with an established and internationally recognized reputation as a maker of discursive and critical built works—and the drawings that accompany them—within the overlapping academic and practice communities of architecture. This identity, grown from individuated and inventive methodologies in architectural production, has established a distinct critical position extending beyond single works to encompass a broader identity. At the heart of this identity is a conviction: Colorado is central to the distinctly American tradition of building.

From this position, HIRTHCo operates under the thesis that architecture can be designed and disseminated taking on the habits and idiosyncrasies of our particular context in order to elevate the American built environment. By operating in reflection, we generate work that pushes the discipline of architecture to newly introspective evaluative terrain. The conceptual framework within which KEVIN HIRTH Co. functions continues to be built on the constructive conviction that drawing is central to the discipline of architecture and is inseparable from the act of building.

In 2022 the office won an Award in the 69th Annual Progressive Architecture Awards. In 2020 the work was awarded an Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Award. In 2017 Kevin was awarded the Architectural League of New York's League Prize.

Kevin has lectured and served on juries at Universities internationally including The University of Arkansas, University of Pennsylvania, University of Oregon, Anahuac University in Mexico City, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Harvard University, Kyoto University, Texas A&M University, Syracuse University, Northeastern University, Texas Tech University, and the University of Illinois Chicago. Upon graduation from Harvard, Kevin was granted the singular honor of receiving both the Harvard Faculty Design Award and AIA Henry Adams Medal.

Kevin is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Denver College of Architecture and Planning. Kevin holds a Master's of Architecture with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor's of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia.

Founded in 2013, KEVIN HIRTH Co. has been recognized nationally and internationally through awards and publications including the Architects Newspaper, Dezeen, Designboom, ARCHITECT Magazine, ArchDaily, The JAE, and Archinect.

KEVIN HIRTH Co. has been and continues to be fortunate to include a talented and energetic team. The current team includes Illiana Ramirez, Emanuil Sklianin, and Mo Zaina. Valued past members of the team include Trevor Carrasco, Ramiro Castillo, Josh Krell, Schawn Li, Chauncey Queen-Booker, Rocco Sant, Xandon Sigafoos, and Noe Torres.