Tyler

The Tyler firm Fitzpatrick.Butler Architects will be associate architect on the Tyler Museum of Art building project, TMA Director Kimberley Bush Tomio said.

Mike Butler, principal and co-founder of Fitzpatrick.Butler, will work with wHY Architecture of Los Angeles, the firm hired as principal design architect for the building to be erected on of 13.5 acres at University Boulevard and Lazy Creek Drive.

“With Mike and the Fitzpatrick.Butler team on board, all the elements are starting to come together,” said Eleanor Cameron, chairman of the TMA Building Committee. “Mike will be the eyes and ears on the ground for wHY, working hand-in-hand with Yo Hakomori, Kulapat Yantrasast and their team all the way through the construction of our new building.”

Fitzpatrick.Butler’s designed Glass Recreation Center, the Brook Hill School, Tyler Junior College’s Joann Medlock Murphy Tennis Center, and expanded facilities for The Salvation Army of Tyler and Tyler Civic Theatre Center.

The firm also performed master planning on Green Acres Baptist Church expansion, First Baptist Church/South Campus, All Saints Episcopal School and Pine Cove Christian Camps. The company has received more than a dozen architectural design awards.

Butler said, “The opportunity to work with an architect of wHY’s caliber is exciting for our firm, and we are honored that the museum wants us to be a part of building its new home. This project represents an enormous contribution to our community, and what is particularly exciting about it is that the design goals of the museum will introduce an architectural element into our community that will attract a wide audience from outside the region.”