13 Facts About Tom Kundig

Tom Kundig was born on 1954 and is an American architect and principal in the Seattle-based firm Olson Kundig Architects.

Tom Kundig was born on October 9,1954, in Merced, California, and raised in Spokane, Washington.

In college, Tom Kundig originally trained as a geophysicist before switching to architecture, his father's profession.

Tom Kundig first came to national attention with Studio House, a private residence that he completed in 1998.

Tom Kundig regularly serves on design juries and lectures around the world on architecture and design.

Tom Kundig has been a university studio critic throughout the United States and in Japan, including at Harvard University and the University of Oregon, and has served as the John G Williams Distinguished Professor at the University of Arkansas School of Architecture and the D Kenneth Sargent Visiting Design Critic at Syracuse University's College of Architecture.

Tom Kundig is recipient of numerous awards and honors including the prestigious National Design Award in Architecture Design from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

Tom Kundig was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2007.

Also, Tom Kundig was named the Architectural League of New York's, Emerging Architect in 2004.

In 2012, Olson Kundig Architects launched a steel accessories line, The Tom Kundig Collection, comprising over 25 hardware pieces that celebrate the kinetic moments that occur in buildings.

The Tom Kundig Collection includes cabinet pulls, rollers, door knockers and knobs.

Tom Kundig collaborated with Seattle-based fabricator 12th Avenue Iron to manufacture the line.

In 2013, Tom Kundig designed The Final Turn, a funerary urn, with Greg Lundgren, owner of Lundgren Monuments in Seattle.