Murray Legge, a licensed architect, is a graduate of the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York City. Recipient of the 2006 AIA Austin Young Architectural Professional Award his work ranges from architecture and landscape design to public art. Mr. Legge has won many competitions and design awards including local, state and national AIA (American Institute of Architects) awards for his design work. Winner of the prestigious Lyceum Fellowship he was also finalist (twice) in Van Alen Institute competitions including the Paris Prize. For the past 10 years, he has been based in Austin, Texas practicing as design and project architect with the firm LZT Architects, Inc. His work at LZTA includes the design and management of several multi-use sustainable urban buildings, such as, Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (ARCH) and the Donald Haynes Performing Arts Center currently under construction. The recently completed ARCH project was awarded a National AIA award for green building and has been the subject of several recent articles and seminars. The Austin American Statesman’s architecture critic, in her recent review, called the building “…a model of public architecture”. His work has appeared in Architectural Record, Art in America, Texas Architect, The Journal of Architectural Education and profiled in the Austin American-Statesman and Houston Chronicle. Mr. Legge has taught workshops, lectured and been visiting critic and lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin.
Mr. Legge also co-founded the multi-disciplinary group, Legge Lewis Legge, based in Austin and New York which focuses on large-scale public art installations, one of which, designed for Austin’s Central Forensics Laboratory, appeared in Art in Americas 2004 Public Art in Review. Legge Lewis Legge was the recipient of a 2006 Texas Society of Architects design award for Cup City, a temporary interactive lounge, honorable mention in the international design competition for the flight 93 memorial and finalist in the Boston Logan Airport 9/11 memorial competition. Legge Lewis Legge has been recently commissioned to design a public urban landscape in Boston through grants from the New England Foundation for the Arts, National Parks Service and the City of Boston.
