In this talk, Austin-based Murray Legge, FAIA will explore a range of projects undertaken over the past decade by the collaborative office of Murray Legge Architecture, including efforts to address incremental density in residential design, prompted by the immense growth of the city of Austin and its property values. Legge will discuss the ensuing tension between the desire to preserve single-family suburban status quo and the need for greater urban density. Legge will also share projects designing public art and educational spaces for children, and a pair of sustainably designed courtyard houses, one of which is self-sufficient.
A graduate of the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York City, Legge has been a lecturer and visiting critic at the University of Texas at Austin and his work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers. Legge is the recipient of more than 30 design awards, including the 2006 AIA Austin Young Architectural Professional Award, two national AIA awards, the Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award, and the 2023 AIA Austin Firm Achievement Award. In 2013 Legge was elevated to the College of Fellows by the American Institute of Architects in the Design category. Winner of the prestigious Lyceum Fellowship, he was also twice a finalist in Van Alen Institute competitions, including the Paris Prize.
