Request for Tom Kundig analysis....  

I would like for someone to look at the architecture of Tom Kundig just posted on the blog and explain to me how he is getting his effects. I find his buildings exceptional, but I cannot explain how he is getting his effects. Usually I can at least make a guess, but his work evidences heaps of "irreducible unity" of design to my eye. He pretty much stays with rectangles. I sense some Louis Kahn in his work. Frankly, his work also kind of reminds me in some ways of the occassional rectilinear efforts of Hans Wegner in furniture.

I don't want a lot of touchy feel-y vagaries how he respects the American west's landscape.

I want the aesthetic nuts and bolts about how he is taking shoe boxes and laying them on their sides sometimes, and standing them up on end other times, and getting these striking, timeless buildings.

Good lord. A rolling structure on concrete wheels. Utterly counter intuitive and yet utterly right looking.

He's doing that thing that I talk about some times when I say some designer is making his work seems like it has been there forever and yet seems utterly new.