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A Seattle-Area Family Breaks Free From Suburbia and Ventures Deep Into Nature | A decade-plus journey took this Washington State family from a planned subdivision to a sylvan valley. For the full article, click here: https://www.dwell.com/article/olson-kundig-carnation-seattle-washington-snoqualmie-valley-modern-homes-fecdfe0b Music by Touchless (https://soundcloud.com/touchlesssf)

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Backstory

Maxon House documents the story collaborating with Olson Kundig on a private residence set on 41.5 forested acres in the Pacific Northwest.
The story chronicles the entire experience from concept to design and construction in partnership with countless craftspeople. We share stories, insights and resources about the project, highlight the people and contributions from key project collaborators and discuss the approach to the project with considerations on the site and careful planning about the place where everything came together. 

“I have fallen in love with the building the Maxon House series and the documentary-like posts about siting and the process”

— James weber (architecture student) via dwell magazine

 
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The inspiration for Maxon House began with Princeton Architectural Press and the release of Tom Kundig : Houses. A collection of detailed stories and insights on five selected projects designed by Tom Kundig in sketches and photographs was the catalyst for our architecture search and ultimate collaboration with Olson Kundig.

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Mission

Inspire, educate and inform future architecture adventures regardless of scale, cost or complexity. Act as a an ongoing resource for potential owners to ask questions, learn more and access resources to apply to their own projects. Share stories and dream big. 

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Project team members

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Photo by Gabe Border

 

Inspire Daily

Our story has resonated with countless visitors to the site who have shared stories of their own projects, asked questions about how to get started and benefitted from insights and resources posted on the site. The project has been featured on Dwell.com with a 26-week blog and we have over 150K+ visitors to the site and countless fans of the project who have followed from the beginning. 

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Bernard Zimmerman Lecture Series at CPP/ARC
 
This series of dialogues about design joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Friday night is not “Friday Night” without the appropriate beverage. We’ll provide a custom-crafted cocktail—one inspired by the architect’s work and created especially for this event. Speakers Tom Kundig, FAIA, RIBA, principal and owner, Olson Kundig Cathleen McGuigan, Editor-in-Chief, Architectural Record Tom Kundig, FAIA, RIBA, is a principal and owner of Olson Kundig. Over the past three decades, Tom has received some of the world’s highest design honors, from a National Design Award for Architecture from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum to an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, Tom was inducted into Interior Design magazine’s Hall of Fame and in 2016, he was elected to the National Academy as an Academician in Architecture. In addition to receiving scores of design awards—including ten National Honor Awards and ten National Housing Awards from the American Institute of Architects—Tom’s work has appeared in hundreds of publications worldwide including The New York Times, The Telegraph, Architectural Record, Financial Times, Architectural Digest and The Wall Street Journal, as well as numerous books. Tom’s work can be found on five continents, in locations ranging from Costa Rica to Brazil, New Zealand, China, Mexico and Sweden, and Austria. Tom regularly lectures and serves on design juries around the world, and is named in The Wallpaper* 150 as a key individual who has influenced, inspired and improved the way we live, work and travel. Cathleen McGuigan is editor-in-chief of Architectural Record. She is responsible for leading the award-winning editorial team to deliver thorough coverage of news, projects, and practice issues to architects, design professionals, and building product manufacturers. Her broad experience as an editor, journalist, and critic provides strong leadership for this integrated print and digital portfolio, as well as strikingly relevant professional and cultural content for readers across the globe. Cathleen joined RECORD in 2011. Previously an architecture critic and arts editor at Newsweek, she has more than three decades of cultural journalism experience. Cathleen’s work has also been published in The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Harper’s Bazaar, and Rolling Stone. A Michigan native, she serves on several design juries and is a former adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. AIANY Architecture Dialogue Committee