About US

Olson Kundig is a Seattle-based design practice founded on the ideas that buildings can serve as a bridge between nature, culture and people, and that inspiring surroundings have a positive effect on people’s lives. Led by five owners, the firm’s work can be found across the globe, with projects as wide ranging as huts to high rises, homes—often for art collectors—to academic, cultural and civic projects, museums and exhibition design, places of worship, creative production, urban design and interior design.The firm began its creative existence in 1966 with the architect Jim Olson, whose work at that time centered on explorations of the relationship between dwellings and the landscapes in which they inhabit. Olson started the firm based on the essential ideas that buildings can serve as a bridge between nature, culture, histories, and people, and that inspiring surroundings have a positive effect on people’s lives.Over the five decades of its existence, the firm has grown and broadened its expertise far beyond the residences for which it is still best known. It consciously devotes a consistent energy and enthusiasm to every project, no matter whether the task at hand is a cabin in the woods or a high-rise in Seoul. Every finished project manifests a “macro to micro” level of attention, from the big ideas to the smallest details, giving coherence to the entire experience of the built site.The geographical scope of the work has grown to cover five continents, in locations ranging from the rural landscapes of Montana and Idaho to intensively urban contexts in Manhattan and Mumbai. But no matter the situation, the same philosophies—for instance a careful consideration of the environment, attunement to local materials and culture, and seeking out the expertise and contributions of craftspeople, artists, and other outside experts—continue to apply to each new undertaking.Among the firm’s accolades are the 2009 National AIA Architecture Firm Award (as Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects); dozens of national and regional design awards from the American Institute of Architects; American Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum; Jim Olson’s 2007 Seattle Medal of Honor; and Tom Kundig’s National Design Award from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt and his Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Olson and Kundig were inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in 2012. For two years in a row, the firm was named one of the Top Ten Most Innovative Companies in Architecture by Fast Company.

奥尔森-昆迪格是一家位于西雅图的设计公司，其理念是建筑可以作为自然、文化和人之间的桥梁，鼓舞人心的环境会对人们的生活产生积极影响。在五位业主的带领下，公司的作品遍布全球，项目范围广泛，从小屋到高楼，从住宅--通常是艺术收藏家的住宅到学术、文化和市政项目、博物馆和展览设计、礼拜场所、创意生产、城市设计和室内设计。公司于1966年由建筑师吉姆-奥尔森开始其创造性的存在，他当时的工作主要是探索住宅和它们所居住的景观之间的关系。奥尔森创办公司的基本理念是：建筑可以作为自然、文化、历史和人之间的桥梁，鼓舞人心的环境对人们的生活有积极的影响。在其存在的五十年里，公司已经成长并扩大了它的专业知识，远远超出了它最著名的住宅。它有意识地将一贯的精力和热情投入到每个项目中，无论手头的任务是森林中的小屋还是首尔的高楼。每一个完成的项目都体现了 "从宏观到微观 "的关注程度，从大的想法到最小的细节，使建筑场地的整个体验具有连贯性。作品的地理范围已经扩大到五大洲，地点从蒙大拿和爱达荷的乡村风景到曼哈顿和孟买的密集城市背景。但无论在什么情况下，同样的理念--例如对环境的仔细考虑，对当地材料和文化的适应，以及寻求工匠、艺术家和其他外部专家的专业知识和贡献--继续适用于每个新的任务。 该公司获得的荣誉包括：2009年美国建筑师协会颁发的国家建筑公司奖（作为奥尔森-桑德伯格-昆迪格-艾伦建筑事务所）；美国建筑师协会颁发的数十个国家和地区设计奖；芝加哥雅典娜博物馆颁发的美国建筑奖；吉姆-奥尔森的2007年西雅图荣誉奖；汤姆-昆迪格获得史密森尼库珀-休伊特国家设计奖和美国艺术和文学学院颁发的建筑学院奖。该公司连续两年被《快速公司》评为建筑业十大最具创新的公司之一。