Tom Kundig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American architect
Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1954
Place of Birth: Merced, California, United States
Profession: architect
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Tom Kundig
- Tom Kundig (born 1954) is an American principal and owner of the Seattle-based firm Olson Kundig Architects.
- His honors include some of the highest design awards, including a 2008 National Design Award in Architecture Design from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt; a 2007 Academy Award in Architecture from The American Academy of Arts and Letters; selection as a finalist for the 2005 National Design Award for Architecture; a MacDowell Colony Fellowship; and selection as an Emerging Architect by the Architectural League of New York.
- He has also received eleven National American Institute of Architects awards.
- In 2011, he was included in The Wallpaper* 150, Wallpaper (magazine)'s list of the 150 people who have most influenced, inspired and improved the way we live, work and travel over the last 15 years.In 2010, the Pierre was named World Architecture News' House of the Year and in 2011, Art Stable was named Project of the Year by the Residential Architect Design Awards.
- Architectural Record has chosen two of Kundig’s projects for Record Houses—the Rolling Huts and Delta Shelter.
- Olson Kundig Architects received the 2009 National AIA Architecture Firm Award (as Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects) and has twice been named one of the Top Ten Most Innovative Companies in Architecture by Fast Company (magazine).In 2015, Princeton Architectural Press released Tom Kundig: Works, a collection of Kundig's recent projects, including commercial spaces and public buildings.
- In 2011, Princeton Architectural Press released Tom Kundig: Houses 2, the follow up to the 2006 book, Tom Kundig: Houses, one of the Press’s bestselling architecture books of all time.
- Kundig has been published over 450 times in publications worldwide, including the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Architectural Record, Dwell, Architectural Digest and The New York Times.
- Kundig’s undergraduate and graduate architecture degrees are from the University of Washington.
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