ABOUT
Our Services
MWM offers extensive and varied backgrounds in design, structural engineering, and construction administration.
In numerous states, we have completed projects ranging from retail and commercial to educational and religious. We strive to be a firm that emphasizes high touch as well as high tech on each of our projects. Our goal is to be crystal clear in all of our dealings with clients and anyone else that we come into contact with, within the profession.
Our PHILOSOPHY
At MWM Architects, we pride ourselves on a firm culture that is grounded in the belief that the client is the core of our success. We provide ourselves and our talents as instruments in the process of crystallizing the vision of our clients. Maintaining a heightened level of customer care is embodied in our practice of providing clear communication along with innovative design. To further this philosophy, a principal in the firm personally oversees every project and every principal takes seriously the role of communication, availability, and flexibility throughout the duration of the project.
Our Team
LEADERSHIP
Our History
1957
The history of present day MWM Architects, Inc. began when Marvin L. Stiles, Evan E. Roberts, Robert Messersmith, and Clarence Johnson went into business together and established the firm Stiles, Roberts, Messersmith & Johnson (SRMJ) and began practicing in Lubbock, TX.
1968
As SRMJ’s presence began to grow, the firm formed a lasting relationship with Texas Tech University by designing the Museum of Texas Tech in Lubbock, TX which is still present to this day.
1972
SRMJ’s relationship with Texas Tech University continued to grow as the firm designed the Dormitories and Dining Hall for Women, now known as Stangel Murdough Hall.
1977
After 20-years as partners in one of the oldest firms in Lubbock, TX, SRMJ was re-established as Stiles & Stiles Architects when Marvin’s son, Edward Stiles, became a Partner at the firm. Robert Messersmith went on to create a new firm under the name Robert Messersmith and Associates.
1979
Jeff Whitaker, a highly established Architect, entered into a partnership with Robert Messersmith and Associates and the firm’s name was changed to Messersmith, Whitaker, and Messersmith. It was in that same year that this new partnership began forming lasting relationships with new clients, one of the first being with GRACO Real Estate. MWM started designing new tenant spaces for GRACO in the state of Colorado and eventually into Lubbock and Waco in the coming years.
1982
Messersmith, Whitaker, and Messersmith became a corporation at which time the firm name was changed to what is now known as MWM Architects, Inc (MWM).
1983
Under the newly established firm name, MWM Architects, Inc. began working with United Supermarkets by designing a new Store for them in South Kingsgate. The relationship built between MWM and United has grown stronger since then and continues to this day.
1989
MWM Architects, Inc. began working with Lubbock Christian University by designing the Administration Building addition that later became the current Library.
2006
After the retirement of Jeff Whitaker, the last original partner of MWM, A new partnership was formed between Melanie P. Meixner, Jason R. Moore, and Stephen L. Faulk becoming the current Principal Architects of the firm. Later that same year, Joel P. Robinett, a Structural Engineer who worked closely with MWM for years at RTR Engineers, Inc. joined MWM Architects, Inc in the summer of 2006. This partnership established MWM as an in-house Architectural & Engineering Firm.
2014
MWM teamed up with Diamond Schmitt Architects from Toronto, Canada and Parkhill from Lubbock Texas to design the Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Science Theater marking the first Performing Arts Center of this caliber in West Texas.
2015
MWM Architects, Inc. hired Amber Richardson to become the Head of Interior Design for the firm, furthering the company’s expertise as an in-house Architectural, Engineering, and Interior design firm.
2016
MWM relocated in the winter of 2016 to our current office on the historic brick road of Broadway, close to the heart of Downtown Lubbock and Texas Tech University.