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With over 30 years of experience in residential and commercial architecture, Tom Hurt AIA leads TOM HURT Architecture, Inc..

This office does thoughtful and extraordinary building design. TOM HURT Architecture provides full services for master planning and building design, including interior finish selection and exterior hard-scaping. We offer to our client a project team of engineers and consultants – and a general contractor, if necessary – to make a complex process manageable for the client. We base our recommendations of these professionals and contractors on project complexity and budget, and try to create a budget-appropriate fit for the project. And one where the client feels they can trust each team member to manage their part of what is inevitably a great expenditure by the client. Having worked as a general contractor, framer, and carpenter on various projects, Tom approaches design with a builder’s view of details, work sequencing, and costs. This is useful for two reasons; it makes some extraordinary building designs possible within normal (and affordable) building technologies; and it has led Tom and his office to pursue, through design, uncommon beauty in common materials. This latter task is exciting for us, and it is why we think of some of our work as ‘material arrangement’.

08/23/2026

On the use of WHITE in public spaces, airports.

Visiting China 2 times in 2 years, experiencing some examples of newly constructed public infrastructure, I’ve come to the opinion that Chinese planners are ON to a useful strategy: where possible paint large interior spaces white.

When choosing a color for the “shell” of a space that receives natural light, if we paint it white — a *color* that we learned in school ( counterintuitively ) is the combination of all the colors in the spectrum — that space’s glorious reality may be exposed, the white revealing the endless subtle shapes and tones of the “shell”.

And by virtue of its reflectance, white carries that natural light exponentially deeper into a space when compared to colors varying too far from white in any hue direction. China’s new airports, and many fast-rail stations are wonderful this way.

The new terminal at JFK International airport has adopted this strategy — where even the white netting installed to control the access of suddenly-indoor birds attempting to fly across the terminal’s security checkpoint — catches that light as what must be an unintended delight.

And apparently, Albany, New York’s new terminal will be white as well …
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Pictured: Lanzhou, Gansu, China Airport; JFK Terminal A; Rendering for the new Albany International Terminal

03/30/2026

At Grandview House, things have gone up on walls, separated into 2 groups, things that go on walls and things that don’t.

Plaster shape in bathroom ( a correction of a wall plane issue ) , the bathroom sink , picture on lathe where original plaster removed , floating but tethered astronaut , electrical switches on lathe , car phone , boat .

01/05/2026

Grandview House-
Where I live, I had assumed I would install landscaping, plants… that kind of thing… in my backyard. But designing one’s own place is different than designing for others. The plants never appeared because the 2 large trees, rolling workshop, and the flat gravel space with a white picket fence enclosing it was enough.

Especially after I found a cactus-shaped cat scratching post in the alley on its way to another life.

It found its new life just a few minutes later, installed near the cold pool, which I envision as a refreshing spring in a flat rock landscape, or on some days, as my own small, cool, sea-water beach. The place has now taken on some Looney Toons flavor which is about right for a place for me.

Photos by the multitalented, visionary : the venerable Jett Butler

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01/02/2026

Grandview House-
Workshop with Adjustable Positioning

Photos by the venerable Jett Butler

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12/10/2025

Our surgery into the residence originally created by Donlyn Lyndon FAIA-ACSA. This part of the work: expansion of covered patio with cantilevering deck, light steel structure and Kalwall panels.

A chance to work with the subtle, tense geometry that Prof. Lyndon established in the large white wall that screens the interior and exterior living from the harsh afternoon sun. From above , it is clear that Mr Lyndon’s wall was mostly the one angular line , but split into a variation of that same line, a move that created a brilliant change in thicknesses of the large screen wall.

A tense line, like a vibrational upset and resettling.

In our slight reworking of this area, we reshaped the openings in the wall from curve-topped to square-topped — hereby asking forgiveness from Professor Lyndon.

Image 3 __ from last sequence from the movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) where protagonist journeys through space (?) towards the movie’s resolution.

Last Image __ the original house and screen wall shape by Donlyn Lyndon, FAIA, ca. 2002

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409 W 14th Street
Austin, TX
78701

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm

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+15124730123

Website

http://tomhurt.com/

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