Noel Murphy, AIA
Senior Associate
Noel Murphy, AIA has over fifteen years of professional experience working on a wide range of cultural, academic and urban design projects throughout the United States. Prior to joining Oudens Ello Architecture in 2016, Noel was a designer and project architect at Machado Silvetti and Perkins + Will. Over the past nine years at OEA, Noel has served as project manager on numerous cultural and civic projects including renovation-expansions of the Scituate Town Library in Scituate, MA and the Boston Public Library’s Faneuil Branch; a renovation-expansion study of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art at Auburn University in Auburn, AL,; a new exhibition and events building at the Woodlawn Museum Gardens & Park in Ellsworth, ME and renovations to the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, MA. In 2024, Noel was promoted to Senior Associate and is currently leading the Belmont Public Library in Belmont, MA; the renovation-expansion of the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT, the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, VT, the East Falmouth Library in Falmouth, MA and Whitinsville Social Library in Northbridge, MA.
Noel is a registered architect in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and member of the American Institute of Architects. He is a graduate of Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and the University of Virginia. In 2012, he was awarded the Boston Society of Architects' prestigious Rotch Traveling Scholarship, the oldest traveling scholarship of its kind in the United States. He has traveled extensively within Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Noel currently resides with his family in Boston's Charlestown neighborhood.