Profile

For over two decades, Kobi Karp Architecture and Interior Design (KKAID) has been providing creative and innovative design solutions to renowned clients in the hospitality, retail and high-rise residential development community. The firm specializes in architecture, interior design and planning. KKAID’s clientele includes corporations such as Hyatt, Hilton, Starwood, Super clubs, Club Med, Wyndham, Sonesta and development corporations such as the related group, leviev boymelgreen, maefield corporation, BSR development, forest city enterprises, Magna, Renzi holdings, Fortune International, Cornerstone Group, Paradise International, Maclee, Merco group and GFS corporation. These entities along with local government agencies turn to KKAID to design and renovate properties, create interiors and plan sites for pending development.

KKAID is headquartered in Miami and its profile extends beyond the typical architectural firm in offering a diverse range of services relating to buildings, from planning through design, construction, and management. To date, KKAID has participated in the completion of more than $10 billion in commercial, residential and mixed-use properties. The firm’s staff has the expertise to take projects from site planning through project build-out and has established a reputation that has won the loyalty of clients, the esteem of colleagues and the praise of city planners.

Kobi Karp, the firm’s principal, is a recognized member of the American Institute of Architects, honored for his award-winning designs and buildings. He is also a licensed interior designer and general contractor and an active member of the American Society of interior design and several other professional associations.

Kobi Karp, R.A., AIA, NCARB
Principal-in-Charge

Kobi Karp is the Founder and Principal of Kobi Karp Architecture and Interior Design, Inc (KKAID). Kobi Karp founded the firm in 1996 and has been the Principal-in-Charge of design since that time. KKAID is a full-service architectural and interior design firm providing a vast array of services, ranging from the design of large-scale, high-rise condominium and hospitality projects to intimate, small-scale low-rise residential and commercial structures.

Educated at the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Technology, Kobi Karp earned degrees in both Architecture and Environmental Design. Subsequently, Kobi Karp began his career working on major hospitality and all- inclusive resort projects throughout the United States and the Caribbean. His restoration design techniques have contributed to a renaissance in one of this country’s most cherished areas, Miami Beach’s Art Deco District which is internationally recognized around the world.

Kobi Karp has developed expertise in design over the last 20 years, working with a wide range of project types, sizes, complexities, and budgets. It is through this last quarter century working in warm weather climates that KKAID has garnered international acclaim and been selected to spearhead numerous resort projects. Developers and builders in the Caribbean, Black Sea region, and the Middle East have relied on the firm for their design eye and planning.

Kobi Karp is a recognized member of the American Institute of Architects, honored for his award-winning designs and buildings and he is a licensed Professional Architect in 9 states and in Abu Dhabi (UAE). His firm has been featured in renowned national and local publications based on their major contributions in the preservation of historical areas.

  • ARCHITECTURE

    KKAID's modern designs and architectural work have been published and recognized internationally. They are inspired by the vernacular of the environments in which they reside. Its standard allows for the focus of the new design to relate to its logistical and historical contexts. The firm specializes in collaborating with clients to reach their project's mission while working within their budgetary parameters. The firm understands the need to create viable commercial, residential and mixed-use environments that produce a valued return on investment. KKAID believes that each project must be delivered on time, within budget--every time.

  • INTERIOR DESIGN

    KKAID uses its extensive network of professional suppliers enabling its designs to provide a wide range of natural and cutting-edge materials, finishes, fabrics, accessories, and custom-designed furnishings at human and personalized appeal. Our firm works with clients to create interior business environments that are elegant, stylish and infinitely livable. As interior architects our approach to design is exclusively focused on how the aesthetics and organization of a space can reflect a project's image, improve efficiency and productivity and create visual and mood-heightened appeal.

  • PLANNING

    Planning encompasses creative uses of planning regulations related to the urban and architectural codes for each project. KKAID specializes in creating public and private spaces that symbiotically coexist with surrounding buildings, both existing and/or new. KKAID projects have ranged from coordinating retail traffic patterns and master plans for urban infill mixed-use projects to historically preserving landmark areas within Miami beach art deco hotel district. KKAID is strongly versed in this discipline, as completed in its diverse projects in the hospitality, lifestyle, multi-family, residential and resort fields.