Olson Kundig
Emery "Mocca" Swinney is an experienced professional with a diverse background in customer service and office administration. Currently serving as an Office Assistant at Olson Kundig since April 2023, Swinney previously held the position of PNW Senior Inside Sales at Holland & Sherry Interiors, focusing on sales generation and customer outreach. Experience includes leadership as a Corporate Receptionist Supervisor at Northwest Center, managing a team of corporate receptionists, and ensuring operational standards. Additionally, Swinney has worked as a Customer Service Liaison at Gene Juarez Salons & Spas and held management responsibilities at Tropical Smoothie Cafe. Early career experience includes a Customer Service Representative role at AT&T, showcasing a strong foundation in customer relations.
Olson Kundig
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Now in its sixth decade of practice, Olson Kundig is a collaborative design practice led by 13 principal/owners whose work includes cultural and museum projects, exhibition design, commercial and mixed-use design (including wineries and sports facilities), private and multi-family residential, hospitality projects, places of worship, interior design, product design and landscape design. With deep roots in the Pacific Northwest, the firm and its team of over 300 work with clients around the world. The firm began its creative existence in 1966 with the architect Jim Olson, whose work at that time centered on explorations of the relationship between dwellings and the landscapes in which they inhabit. Olson started the firm based on the essential ideas that buildings can serve as a bridge between nature, culture, histories, and people, and that inspiring surroundings have a positive effect on people’s lives. Among the firm’s accolades are the 2009 National AIA Architecture Firm Award (as Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects), national and regional design awards from the American Institute of Architects, Jim Olson’s 2007 Seattle Medal of Honor and Tom Kundig’s National Design Award from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt and his Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Books on the firm’s work include Tom Kundig: Working Title (Princeton Architectural Press, 2020); Jim Olson: Building • Nature • Art (Thames & Hudson, 2018); Tom Kundig: Works (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015); Jim Olson: Art and Architecture (August Editions, 2013); Tom Kundig: Houses 2 (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011); Jim Olson Houses (The Monacelli Press, 2009); and Tom Kundig: Houses (Princeton Architectural Press, originally published in 2006 and re-released in 2021).