Kirsten Murray FAIA

Kirsten Murray has provided firm-wide leadership of Olson Kundig for more than 25 years, enhancing core practices and creating new programs that have helped the organization grow from a small architectural firm of a dozen to an internationally recognized design practice with 150 employees, honored in 2009 with the AIA National Firm Award.

Kirsten works across a broad range of project types including arts and cultural design, mixed-use and private residential design, adaptive reuse, workplace, and urban design. She has dedicated her career to elevating the rigor and impact of design through hands-on education and mentorship programs, staff development, community outreach and thought leadership. Kirsten has collaborated on projects that have received AIA national Honor Awards and AIA Housing Awards, including Outpost, Tye River Cabin, and mixed-use projects -- e.g. Art Stable, 1111 E. Pike, and King Street Station -- published in a variety of magazines and books, including The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Interior Design, and Architectural Record. She serves on the Board of Trustees for the University of Washington’s Henry Art Gallery and the national board of the AIA Trust.