Tom Kundig is the winner of five National AIA Institute Honor Awards and a recipient of a 2007 Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2004, Kundig 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). He was a finalist for the 2005 National Design Award for Architecture, sponsored by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and he is a recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. To date, Kundig has been awarded a total of twenty-seven AIA awards, and over fifty awards total.
Kundig’s work encompasses residential, commercial and institutional and is located around the world, from the West Coast to New York, Canada to the South, and across the ocean to Spain. 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, as well as for his use of kinetic architectural elements.
In 2006, Princeton Architectural Press released Tom Kundig: Houses – a book which introduced the details of Kundig’s work to an international audience. He has been published in over 250 publications worldwide. Cover stories have appeared in the New York Times Home Magazine, Italy’s La Republica’s D CASA and Acciaio Arte Architettura, and Spain’s Diseño Interior. His work has been featured in many books on architecture, including Dung Ngo’s World House Now, Casamonti and Pavan’s Cantine 1990-2005, Jean-Louis Cohen and Martin Moeller Jr.’s Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete, and the forthcoming edition of The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture.
Kundig has lectured extensively on design and served as a university studio critic throughout the United States and in Japan (at Harvard, Syracuse University, the University of Texas and the University of Oregon, among others). His award-winning work has been widely exhibited in North America, at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, Syracuse University, the Seattle AIA, and at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC which featured the Mission Hill Winery project as part of the exhibit “Liquid Stone.” A monograph on the work of the firm, Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects: Architecture, Art and Craft, was published by the Monacelli Press in 2003. Kundig’s undergraduate and graduate architecture degrees are from the University of Washington.