Tom Kundig

Striking, innovative, and dramatically sited, the twenty-nine projects in Tom Kundig: Working Title reveal the hand of a master of contextually astute, richly detailed architecture. As Kundig's work has increased in scale and variety, in diverse locations from his native Seattle to Hawaii and Rio de Janeiro, it continues to exhibit his signature sensitivity to material and locale and to feature his fascinating kinetic "gizmos." Projects range from inviting homes that integrate nature to large-scale commercial and public buildings: wineries, high-performance mixed-use skyscrapers, a Visitor Center for Tillamook Creamery, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, and the Wagner Education Center of the Center for Wooden Boats, among others. Tom Kundig: Working Title includes lush photography, sketches, and a dialogue between Tom Kundig and Michael Chaiken, curator of the Kundig-designed Bob Dylan Archive at the Helmerich Center for American Research.

"A crew of 17 photographers loaned their work to this fourth volume by Princeton Architectural Press on Northwest architect Tom Kundig. The result is a large-format, lavish, full-color catalog of 29 projects...exploring an understated use of steel, plywood, glass, and concrete-all employed in their natural, unfinished texture and color." - Library Journal, "Architectural monographs offer us a vehicle for traveling to places as far off as Hawaii, Korea, Australia and Costa Rica, along with places closer to home, such as Seattle and Kelowna. Such has not been lost on Seattle architect Tom Kundig, who here in Working Title has provided a stunning photographic tour of all of the above and more, including several repurposed buildings among the usual single-family subjects. Kundig is now a world-celebrated architect, with Working Title capturing a proper snapshot of his 190 person office and what they have achieved in its forty-five-year existence." - Spacing (Canada), "Art is the filter through which [Kundig] assembles what's around him into a coherent whole. "Listening to the client and the climate influences me with a poetic heart and drive, but outwardly I'm gathering and solving a functional problem artistically," he says. Tom Kundig: Working Title, then, is a 10-inch-by-12-inch case history of what that process yields." - Architects + Artisans, "From commercial high-rises to wineries, from museums to private homes, the Seattle-based architect has seemingly done it all, translating the organic sensibility of his work for a variety of typologies with his AD100 firm Olson Kundig. [Tom Kundig: Working Title] allows an intimate look at these projects, including seven unpublished works, and his unique process of making architecture." - Architectural Digest, "In his fourth book, Seattle-based architect and designer Tom Kundig proves that his dauntless design instincts are reaching new heights. Across 29 residential and commercial projects, breathtaking landscapes mingle with raw architectural designs that expertly incorporate rustic industrial elements-iron beams, glass, unfinished wood-with modern lines." - Business of Home

Tom Kundig, FAIA, RIBA, is a principal and owner of Seattle-based Olson Kundig. In 2016, he was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Academician in Architecture, and he received the AIA Seattle Gold Medal in 2018. Kundig's work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Architect, Architectural Record, and Architectural Digest.