Tom Kundig

Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, Seattle, WA

Tom Kundig: Recent Work

Monday, November 13th, 6:00 PM

Phillip Swager Associates Lecture

Tom Kundig, FAIA
Raised and educated in a tradition of art fabrication, his designs successfully combine art, craft and the human experience of space. He is internationally recognized for his sense of the American West landscape and for his integration of elegant architecture with the exploration and reinvention of parts of architecture that are overlooked or “forgotten,” such as doors, windows or stairs.

This fall, Princeton Architectural Press will release Tom Kundig: Houses. Tom’s Delta Shelter Cabin was recently named a 2006 Record House by Architectural Record. Tom was a finalist for the 2005 National Design Award for Architecture, sponsored by The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. In 2004, Tom was selected as one of eight North American Emerging Architects by the Architectural League of New York and was elected to the College of Fellows by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). To date, Tom has been awarded a total of 18 AIA awards, including two recent National AIA awards for The Brain and the Chicken Point Cabin.

His work has been published in over 220 publications worldwide. Cover stories have appeared in the New York Times Home Magazine, Italy’s La Republica’s D CASA, Spain’s Desiño Interior and on James Truelove’s Cottages: the new style. Dung Ngo included the Studio House in his book World House Now, and recently Mission Hill Winery was included in Casamonti and Pavan’s book, Cantine 1990-2005. England’s Frame Magazine and Architectural Record published Sedgwick Rd., an ad agency.

He has lectured extensively on design and served as a university studio critic throughout the United States (at Harvard, the University of Texas and the University of Oregon, among others) as well as in Japan. His award-winning work has been widely exhibited in North America. Most recently the National Building Museum in Washington, DC featured the Mission Hill Winery project as part of the exhibit “Liquid Stone.” A monograph, Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects: Architecture, Art and Craft, was published by the Monacelli Press in 2003. His undergraduate and graduate architecture degrees are from the University of Washington.