Kirksey Architecture

Kirksey Architecture is a Houston-based architecture firm founded in 1971, with a practice spanning workplace, education, healthcare, and civic projects across Texas and the Gulf Coast. The firm has a long track record in sustainable design and serves as architect of record on CityCentre Six, Midway’s 19-story West Houston office tower that delivered early and heavily preleased. Kirksey pairs architecture with interior design and building-performance services, and it’s one of the larger locally rooted design firms working Houston’s commercial and institutional pipeline.

Kirksey Architecture began in 1971 when John Kirksey, a year out of college, set up a studio in his attic and took on a single project. That practice has since grown to more than 200 people working from offices in Houston, Austin, and Dallas, with its headquarters on a LEED-certified corporate campus in Houston.

Sustainability is the firm’s defining thread. Kirksey designs high-performance, health-conscious buildings and formalized that focus by creating EcoServices, an internal think-tank and consulting group whose job is to bring environmentally friendly building practices into the mainstream of its work. The firm serves commercial, community, education, government, healthcare, and hospitality clients.

Its services extend past architecture into interior design, master planning, and branding and graphics, so a client can carry a project from site planning through the built interior and its signage. For an owner prioritizing energy performance and occupant health, the in-house sustainability consulting is the differentiator that sets Kirksey apart from a general-practice architecture firm.