The most recent winner of the Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Award in Architecture Design, Tom Kundig is a celebrated partner in Seattle-based firm Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects. Although Kundig has designed commercial, residential, and institutional projects for clients worldwide, he is best known for his houses, cabins, and studios sited in the rugged landscape of the American West. This well-designed, richly illustrated book — the first monograph of Kundig's work — presents five of his projects in depth, beginning with Studio House, completed for a Seattle artist in 1998, and ending with the 2006-realized Hot Rod House, which the architect and his wife designed for themselves. Rounding out the projects are The Brain, a poured-concrete writing and photography studio with large steel-case windows on two sides; Chicken Point Cabin, whose hand-cranked wall of windows opens to a lake view; and the steel and glass Delta Shelter, which, when shuttered, resembles a rusting fortress at the edge of an alpine forest. Kundig recently added several rolling prefab guesthouses to the Delta property — clever steel and wood structures that only further advance his standing at the cutting edge of contemporary architecture.