10 highlights from Jim Olson's six decades in architecture
From a party bunkhouse to a hotel with a pool dropping to the ocean, we've rounded up 10 key projects by US architect Jim Olson, co-founder of Seattle architecture studio Olson Kundig, which feature in a new book celebrating 60 years of his work.
Born in 1940, Jim Olson established Olson Kundig in 1967 and now runs the architecture practice with partners Tom Kundig, Kirsten R Murray, Alan Maskin and Kevin M Kudo-King. Among the firm's current projects is the overhaul of the iconic Seattle Space Needle and many residential projects across the US.
The 78-year-old architect built his first shelter ? a bunker on the grounds of his grandparents' weekend house ? aged 18, while studying architecture at the University of Washington.
In the years following, he has gone on to complete a host of projects, including residences, chapels and hotels, which are presented in Jim Olson: Building, Nature, Art ? a new publication by Thames & Hudson released earlier this month. To mark the book's launch, we've picked 10 highlights from its pages. Read on to find out more:
Longbranch Cabin, Longbranch, Washington, USA, 2014
Olson's first credited project is a tiny bunkhouse that he designed and built for himself aged 18, as a first-year architecture student on a $500 (£376) budget.
The architect, now 78 years old, then completed extensions to the dwelling in 1981, 1997, 2003. Most recently, in 2014, he added several bedrooms, a living room with a large glass wall and a unifying roof....
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