Blair Payson joined Olson Kundig in 2004 and has worked on both architectural and exhibit design projects, including the Century Project at the Space Needle, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center, and [storefront] Olson Kundig, as well as several residential projects across the Western United States and Mexico.

A maker at heart, Blair is an architect who revels in the details. From large cultural projects to temporary design interventions, Blair works to distill large, complex projects into distinct culminating moments. Lately, Blair’s research has taken him on site visits to a subterranean cavern deep underground in one week, to hundreds of feet above an urban landscape the next. Blair holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University, and regularly lectures and organizes conferences across the U.S. In 2018, he chaired the Architects Newspaper Conference in Seattle, and he co-presented a workshop for the 2019 Facades+ Conference in New York City.