The Origin: The Architect, Book 1

by Ken Tate

Meg Summers is one of America’s premier architects, designing some of most exquisite estates across the country, but ever since her sister Dawn had an affair with her former husband, Mick Drewford, a year ago, she has felt utterly and desperately alone. She is also bored with her job. She would much rather sketch fantasy drawings all day in her journal than be managing projects.

On a cool fall day in East Hampton, Meg finds a mysterious note in elegant cursive addressed to her tucked in the middle of a rare book on Hawaiian houses at her favorite bookstore, The Nook & Cranny. After much debate, she decides to follow the note’s instructions to the Hawaiian island of Kauai, where she is swept into a tantalizing world that is both mysterious and strange. The eccentric man who leads her there asks her to do the design an enormous dream building for the ages on his property.

Meg is reluctant to agree. But when the man shows her the land’s mystical secret, she feels compelled to draw it. She gives in, immersing herself in the creative depths of her soul to draw one of the most interesting buildings she has ever imagined. Along the way, she is introduced to a team of architects and builders as strange and magical as the place she has cast herself into.

As time passes, she becomes entranced by her new surroundings and the wealthy man who brought her there, but she also longs for her old life, her home, and her family.

A cross between The Lost Horizon and Alice in Wonderland, this father son duo will leave you spellbound.

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Published August 2, 2021

About the author

Architect, author and abstract painter, Ken Tate received his Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn University in 1975. Since that time, he has designed more than 70 houses in 16 states: California, Florida, Colorado, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas and Tennessee to name a few, and on the prestigious island of Nassau in the Bahamas. Tate's illustrious architectural work has been published in countless magazines such as: Architectural Digest, Luxe, Veranda, Milieu, Robb Report, Forbes, Southern Accents, and The Classicist. Combining cutting edge graphic design sensitivity and exquisite photography, Images Publishing published the first four monographs of Ken's work. The first book, The New Classicists: Ken Tate Architect Selected Houses, Volume 1, established him as one of the first architect's to have a monograph of their work, igniting a trend in the industry that has become the standard. As an abstract expressionist, he has been featured in countless galleries and magazines, and has been commissioned to paint over 60 mixed media portraits. His work is in private and corporate collections across America and Canada.

Ken has always enjoyed writing since penning his groundbreaking thesis Architecture In Search of a Soul at Auburn University. Recently, he has teamed up with his son, Duke Tate, who is the author of 12 books to write The Alchemy of Architecture: Memories and Insights from Ken Tate, which was selected by The Times Literary Supplement as a 2020 Book of the Year. It has also been featured in Modern Luxury's Palm Beach Magazine, Mississippi Magazine's Heritage & Culture section, The Clarion Ledger newspaper and the mass circulated Arab News under The What We Are Reading Today section. Selected as a Great on Kindle book, it is a #1 Amazon Bestseller in the Architectural category. Ken and his son Duke have a new work of fiction titled The Architect to be released in 2021.