Murphy Mears Architects

Award Winning Architectural Design in Houston, Texas.

AWARDS

• Finalist, 99k House Competition, 2008, AIA Houston and Rice Design Alliance. (99k House)

• Honor Award, Interior Architecture, 1997, AIA Houston, Memorial Room, Holocaust Museum, Houston. (Memorial Room)

• Honorable Mention, Commercial: Institutional, September, 1996, ASID/Houston Chronicle Interior Design Awards with artists Patricia and Robert Moss-Vreeland.  Memorial Room of the Holocaust Museum, Houston, Texas completed March of 1996. (Memorial Room)

• First Place, and Commission, Holocaust Memorial Competition, 1993, with artists Patricia and Robert Moss-Vreeland Memorial room in the Holocaust Education Center. (Memorial Room)

• Second Place, Freeway as Art Competition, February, 1989, "Urban Preserve" with Kim Schaeffer and Art Guys Jack Massing and Michael Galbreth, sponsored by National Endowment for the Arts, State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, Cultural Arts Council of Houston, and the Department of Landscape Architecture, Texas A & M University.


EXHIBITIONS / TOURS

• AIA Houston 2012 Annual Home Tour, Bellview Reidence, Houston, Texas

• AIA Houston 2012 Annual Home Tour, Robinhood Residence, Houston, Texas

• West University 2011 Home Tour, Pemberton Residence, Houston, Texas

• AIA Houston 2010 Annual Home Tour, Westheimer Residence, Houston, Texas

• “Holiday Home Tour”, 2010 Houston Heights Association Annual Holiday Home Tour, 1439 Harvard, Houston, Texas

• "Urban Options", 2002 Annual Fall Home Tour, 3521 Gramercy, Houston, Texas

• "Best Laid Plans", Exhibition and Catalogue.  Rice Design Alliance and Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas. May 20 - July 1, 1994.

• "Snap Shot", Exhibition and Catalogue, Rice Design Alliance and Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas


CITATIONS

• “Keeping it Green and Easy”, Mary Vuong, Houston Chronicle Gloss, Vol 1 No 10, June 2010 (Lindenwood LEED® Residence)

• “Living Green”, Natural Awakenings - Houston, May 2010 (Lindenwood LEED® Residence)

• “Traditional Homes can be Green, Too”, Cynthia Lescalleet, Memorial Examiner, May 12, 2010 (Lindenwood LEED® Residence)

• “Touches of Europe, Old World Charm in the Heart of Texas”, Elizabeth Gaynor, Veranda, April 2010 (Terrace Residence)

• “Antiques Hunter”, Nancy Perot Mulford, Veranda, March 2010 (Westheimer Residence)

• “Town & Country”, Jessica Dupuy, Texas Home &Living

• “The $99k House”, Houston House & Home, March 2008 (99k House)

• "Architects Put Energy into Green Competition", Rosanna Ruiz, Houston Chronicle, February 6, 2008 (99k House)

• "St. Thomas’ Episcopal Adds Building for Art, Music", Kim Hughes, Houston Chronicle, January 26, 2006 (St Thomas)

• "Sensitive Additions", Laura Michaelides, Montrose/Cherryhurst House (1928), Houston House & Home. November 2005

• "Houston Architectural Guide", Houston Architectural Guide, Second Edition, American Institute for Architects, Gerald Moorehead, Yolita Schmidt, Ed.  1999

• "Truth In Design", Nancy Perot Mulford, Veranda, January-February 2001 (Little John)

• "Dark Remembrance", Reed Kroloff, Architecture. November 1996. (Memorial Room)

• "Top Interiors", Madeleine McDermott Hamm, Texas, Houston Chronicle. September 8, 1996.

• "Commissions", Amy Blankstein, Sculpture. July/August 1996.

• "Loose Fit: The Houston Museum District", Peter C. Papademetriou, Cite 34. Spring 1996. (Memorial Room)

• "Weekend Cowboy", Louis Joyner, Southern Living. June 1996. (Muleshoe Bend)

• "Where Art Confronts Evil", Patricia Johnson, Zest, Houston Chronicle. May 26, 1996.

• "Industrial Strength Hill Country Design", Melissa Gaskill, Austin American-Statesman.  May 22, 1994. (Muleshoe Bend)

• "Best Laid Plans", Exhibition and Catalogue.  Rice Design Alliance and Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas. May 20 - July 1, 1994.

• "Houston Architects Show Their Stuff", Ann Holmes, Houston Chronicle. May 20, 1994.

• "Holocaust History Goes Into Museum", Steve Brunsman, Houston Post. October 28, 1993. (Memorial Room)

• "Holocaust Education Center to Break Ground Oct. 28", Jewish Herald-Voice. October 21, 1993. (Memorial Room)

• "When Mixing Matches", Deborah Mann Lake,  Houston Post.  August 7, 1993.

• "And the Winners' Are . . . ", Nicole's Cafe San Felipe, Houston Metropolitan. February 1990.

• "Far From the Fading Crowd", Teresa Bryne-Dodge, Nicole's Cafe San Felipe, Houston Metropolitan. April  1989.