[6] Members of the meeting met for many years in temporary spaces, including a Jewish community center, a Presbyterian manse, the Chocolate Bayou Theater, and a dance studio.

[1] Hiram Butler, a Houston gallery owner, connected the Live Oak meeting with Arizona-based artist James Turrell.

[1] Members of the Live Oak Friends Meeting were deeply concerned about whether the creation of an expensive building, with outside funding, could be reconciled with the Quaker Testimony of Simplicity.

Members of the community resolved their concerns in part by working out issues through the consensus-based processes of Quaker meeting with James Turrell and architect Leslie K.

[1]Members of the meeting worked with architect Leslie K. Elkin and artist James Turrell to design the building.

[1] The three-room meeting house has a broad metal roof, supported by large timbers.

[1] Wide overhanging eaves create a nine-bay facade, with doorways in the even-numbered sections.

[9] The flooring is made of sinker pine which was salvaged from the Trinity River and cut specifically for the meeting house.

[9] When the roof is not open, a system of hidden neon tubes fills the Skyspace with blue light.

[15] Emphasis on and utilization of natural light is seen as a guiding principle in the architecture of more modern Quaker meeting houses.