Busy Bees

Presented with the National AIA Architecture Firm Award in 2009 and given a National Design Award in 2008, Olson Kundig Architects well deserves to rest on its laurels, you'd think-at least a little bit. Not so.

Annie Block, Mark McMenamin, and Meghan Edwards -- Interior Design, 8/1/2011 1:41:00 PM

Presented with the National AIA Architecture Firm Award in 2009 and given a National Design Award in 2008, Olson Kundig Architects well deserves to rest on its laurels, you'd think-at least a little bit. Not so. In addition to residential and commercial projects worldwide, the two name partners are preparing for a particularly busy fall. 

"Jim Olson: Architecture for Art," at the Museum of Art at Washington State University in Pullman, is the first comprehensive retrospective of his 45-year career, encompassing photomurals of 32 projects, a full-scale diorama of his own weekend cabin on Puget Sound, furniture, models, and sketchbooks as well as artworks on loan from houses his firm has designed. The evening before the September 30 opening of the show, he's introducing it with an on-site lecture. And that same month sees the release of Tom Kundig: Houses 2, a sequel monograph featuring 17 projects completed since 2005.