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Product Description 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. Review "Tom Kundig may be best known for his monolithic Pacific Northwest homes cast in concrete and weathered steel?but his body of work is much broader than that.ÿWorking Title, explores 29 projects in diverse landscapes, locations, and typologies?from a jewel box home in Hawaii to an office tower in Seoul and a natural history museum in Seattle." ? Dwell"Now, Kundig has just launched a new monograph, celebrating his wide-ranging portfolio and 29 recent works that are set to make you sit and take pause. Entitled Tom Kundig: Working Title... is a hefty, carefully designed, immersive tome." - Wallpaper.com (UK)"Working Title is a welcome addition to Kundig's bibliography, which already includes two monographs published under his supervision. This collection provides enthusiasts with never-before-published works." - Aesthetica (UK)"When considering Kundig's buildings, one is struck by how palpably they express, and how cannily they frame, the relationship between design and environment. Each project reminds us how complex-beautiful, thorny, open to constant reinvention and reinvestigation-that relationship is." - Air Mail"The book's subtitle may seem a bit coy, but there's nothing coy about Kundig's work. It is strong, clean, practical, wise, rich, and imaginative but also unpretentious, appropriately varied, impeccably and subtly detailed, and independent of trends or fashion. To a rare and welcome degree, his descriptions are as clear and direct as the projects themselves, which speaks to Kundig's humility and down-to-earth demeanor." - Interior Design"With the release of his fourth monograph featuring 29 projects, the principal of Seattle architectural firm Olson Kundig once again proves that there's no comparison, although many imitators, to the spectacular homes, innovative cultural institutions, and terroir-enhancing wineries that he conceives." - Galerie"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)"Principal of Seattle-based Olson Kundig, Tom Kundig discusses 29 projects that include high-performance mixed-use buildings, a museum and a winery in the Pacific Northwest, and private houses in Switzerland, Australia, and Brazil. Sumptuous large-scale photos convey his love of materials and the craft of his architecture, and, every now and then, one of his kinetic 'gizmos' shows up." - Architectural Record"Art is the filter through which [Kundig] assembles what's around hi