By Myia Wilson | MSU student, class of 2023
A Mississippi State University fourth-year architecture student has been selected to participate in this year's Architectural Research Centers Consortium ( for his exploratory studio project.
Luke Murray will be in Dallas, Texas, from April 12 through the 15, 2023 to showcase his project at the conference.
It feels good that I will be able to put my work next to all of these other professionals out there. The fact that I got accepted was really exciting, said Murray about going to the ARCC conference.
Murrays project is based on the marginalized craft, Japanese joinery, where he took a cube and broke it into 26 pieces to then carve簫 out different spots to make it into a puzzle. He accomplished this with a CNC router machine and joint prototypes.
When asked how Murray was able to get his project together to submit his work to the conference he responded, I have to include how helpful Professor Duane McLemore and Scott Hudspeth have been and Director Karen Spence throughout the process. I never thought that it would have been taken this far. I thought it was just going to be a little studio project I did and put in my portfolio. But, I mean, they were so helpful. I don't think I could have done it without their help.