Hemanshu Parwani, CEO of Seattle-based Olson Kundig, explains what is regenerative architecture, how it benefits community and why climbing mountains has a positive impact on his work.
When considering Kundig’s buildings, twenty-nine examples of which are included here in his fourth book, one is struck by how palpably they express, and how cannily they frame, the relationship between design and the environment. Each project reminds us how complex – beautiful, thorny, open to constant reinvention and reinvestigation – that relationship is. “Tough, light, and solid,” is how he once described a project to me. That triad of no-nonsense adjectives is perhaps the best description there is of Kundig architecture.
Mark Rozzo, from the Foreword
With 2020 drawing to a close, it is a time for renewed hope and optimism for one of our oldest traditions – reading and publishing books. And in a time where it is well nigh impossible to travel to places near and far, books and monographs remain the most reliable source of visual and literary stimulation, providing us a snapshot of exotic locales that we cannot experience first-hand. Architectural monographs, in pa