Nilda Fernanda Roman

GOTCH, Thomas Cooper (1854-1931)

Tiffany Chung

Her drawings investigate how political and environmental traumas alter landscapes, and her subjects include Iraqi state railways in 1930, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II, the demilitarized zones of the Korean and Vietnam wars, and even the flooding projections for 2050 of Ms. Chung’s adopted hometown. (She was born in the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang and attended college and graduate school in California before relocating — with a long stop in Japan — to Ho Chi Minh City.)

Each artwork is typically inspired by weeks of meticulous research, and Ms. Chung’s captions can be intensely specific. For example, one that accompanies a drawing of San Francisco before the devastating earthquake of 1906 quotes an 1895 blurb on a map from the United States Geological Survey: “distribution of apparent intensity based on Rossi-Forel scale, the known faults, and the routes examined.”

However, the drawings usually venture beyond the literal and into pseudo-abstract territory. And despite their weighty subject matter, they are dazzlingly beautiful.

Tye River Cabin Olson Kundig

Situated in a dense forest near the Tye River, this meditative retreat connects to the nature that surrounds it.

The square base of the two-level structure is rendered in cast-in-place concrete, as is the large central fireplace that serves as the core and anchor for the cabin. Custom-designed, pivoting glass windows swing open to reveal the corners and sides of the space, blurring the line between inside and outside. Rusted mild steel siding wraps the exterior areas not given over to windows. Deep overhangs shelter the main living area from the regular rain showers. Concrete patios extend the living space outdoors and follow the contours of the land toward the water.