About

Kelley Van Dyck Murphy is a designer and co-founder in the research and design practice Van Dyck Murphy Studio. Her work is focused on merging ideas related to materiality, craft, and experiential narratives. The practice engages in built and speculative projects that explore ideas of focused contextuality, materially-driven form and projected space.

Murphy is an assistant professor of architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. In the School of Architecture, she teaches design studios and seminar courses in representation, digital media and material studies. In 2019, she was awarded research grants from both Washington University and the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis. Murphy earned a Master of Architecture from Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She has practiced in the offices of Urban Improvement Company (UIC), Axi:Ome, and Fox Architects in St. Louis, where she worked on projects across a diverse range of scales and building types, including urban infill, adaptive reuse and residential architecture.