Aug 12, 2019
Three Amigos: Tom Kundig, Frank Harmon, and Marlon
Blackwell. Not only are they the best of friends but
they are award-winning rockstars of Modernist residential
architecture.
Tom Kundig is principal with Olson Kundig
Architects and came to national attention with 1998’s Studio House
and in 2002, the Chicken Point Cabin. Tom’s honors include
the Cooper Hewitt 2008 National Design Award, eleven national AIA
design awards, too many Washington AIA awards to count, and over
450 feature articles worldwide. He is the author of Tom
Kundig Houses, Tom Kundig Houses 2, and Tom Kundig Works.
Frank Harmon grew up in North Carolina and worked
for North Carolina’s Ed Loewenstein and New York’s
Richard Meier, teaching at Auburn University and
NC State University’s College of Design. He’s received over 60
design awards, the most ever for a North Carolina firm. Frank
is the author of the book Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See
and writes the Native Places blog.
Marlon Blackwell is the author of An Architecture
of the Ozarks: The Works of Marlon Blackwell and has taught at
the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville since 1992,
serving as head of the architecture department for six years. His
firm won more than 120 design awards and he received the 2012
Architecture Prize from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters.