We are a Pacific North West based architectural, interior & furniture design practice founded on diverse experiences in single family, multi family, commercial adaptive re-use and commercial office improvement projects.

Mastering expertise in both interior design and architecture, we are interested in a holistic site-specific approach.  For us, architecture is a process of creating individualized, curated spaces, manifesting the power of materiality, light, color and texture to transform space into a sensory place of personal identity.  In addition to experience with new construction, the exposure to historic preservation thought us how to carefully balance modern lifestyle with original inherited context.

Iva Murphy, the founding principal of Sim, received her Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and her Bachelor of Art from Woodbury University with a degree in Interior Architecture.  Iva has designed and built projects in the US & Europe, and worked for award winning progressive architecture firms in Massachusetts, California and Washington states.