MURRAY LEGGE | MURRAY LEGGE ARCHITECTURE
BUILDING WITH CMU
This lunchtime discussion will highlight Henri II, completed in 2023 by Murray Legge Architecture: "This project involved a collaboration between an artist and an architectural historian who wanted to build a new residence on their compact lot in Central Austin. The new structure features concrete masonry unit walls with exposed building systems and serves primarily as a dramatic two-story library to house the owner’s extensive art and architectural book collection." The talk is organized by the Materials Lab in partnership with Associate Professor Nichole Wiedemann, whose Fall 2025 vertical studio, Transcendence in Far West Texas, is exploring the possibilities of CMU in a welcome center located in Marfa, Texas. This is an informal, bring-your-own lunch event.
ABOUT MURRAY LEGGE, FAIA
Murray Legge is a graduate of the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York City. His professional achievements include receiving the 2006 AIA Austin Young Architectural Professional Award as well as more than 40 design awards, including four national AIA awards and the Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award twice. Winner of the prestigious Lyceum Fellowship, he was also twice a finalist in Van Alen Institute competitions, including the Paris Prize. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including a project feature in the New York Times. He has been a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is an on-going visiting critic.
Murray is also a co-founder of Legge Lewis Legge, an interdisciplinary collaborative, based in Austin and New York. With a focus on large-scale installations, public art and civic design, Legge Lewis Legge has been widely recognized including receiving the 2010 Austin Art in Public Places Community Arts Award. The studio received an honorable mention in the international design competition for the Flight 93 memorial and was a finalist in the Boston Logan Airport 9/11 memorial competition. Legge Lewis Legge is currently working on public civic projects in Dallas TX, Fort Worth TX, Raleigh NC and Washington DC.