Kohn first joined the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit as a member several years after co-founding KPF alongside William Pedersen and Sheldon Fox in 1976.
The firm invited its London-based architects to experience recently-completed projects in Dubai and Sharjah.
January's contest features a public school that is among hundreds built according to a standardized design in one of South America's largest cities.
This month's dates and events includes a retrospective of an award-winning Swedish firm in Stockholm and an outdoor housing exhibition in Bentonville, Arkansas.