This project has been published in numerous books and articles, been the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Palladio Award and exhibited at the Venice Architectural Biennale*
*The Venice Architecture Biennale is the world’s most prestigious international exhibition for architecture. Established officially in 1980, it functions as a vital global laboratory. Nations, architects, and thinkers gather biennially in Venice, Italy, to propose physical and conceptual solutions to pressing global, social, and environmental challenges.
PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS)
Parentesi Quadra Editorial Team, Contemporary Architects of America (Valencia, Spain: Parentesi Quadra Editorial, 2023), 64.
Rene Rietmeyer et al., eds., Venice 2018: Time Space Existence (Venice, Italy: GlobalArtAffairs Foundation, 2018), 398-399.
Panache Partners LLC, ed., Signature Homes: High Style from the Finest Architects & Builders (Dallas, TX: Panache Press, 2016), . Showcases more than 40 of the nation’s foremost architects and builders from California to New York..
Marc Appleton and Erik Evens et al., eds., 10th Anniversary Exhibition Catalogue (Los Angeles: Institute of Classical Architecture & Arts, Southern California Chapter, 2014), 118–19.
“Professional Portfolio,” The Classicist, no. 15, ed. Marc Appleton (Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, 2018): 66.
Douglas Woods, The California Casa (New York: Rizzoli International Press, 2012), 222–29. This comprehensive volume embraces the Spanish Colonial Revival house in Southern California, featuring 36 homes intended to be the definitive statement on the subject.
Diane Keaton, California Romantica, text by D. J. Waldie (New York: Rizzoli International Press, 2007). First of many books by Rizzoli covering the Spanish Colonial Revival Style in Southern California. Burch’s work represents the only new construction in the book.
PUBLICATIONS (JOURNALS)
LUXE Red Awards Regional Winner 2018, LUXE Magazine (April 2018)
Nancy A. Ruhling, “Michael Burch Architects Update a Historic Spanish Colonial," Period Homes Magazine (April 2016)
Janice Randall Rohlf, “Expanding a Mediterranean Revival House,” New Old House (Spring/Summer 2015)
Nancy A. Ruhling “Spanish Translation,” Period Homes Magazine (June 2014)
Aaron Betsky, “Postmodernism Lives on with these Yale Grads,” Architect Magazine (September 2013)
Will Holloway, “Family Ties,” Period Homes Magazine, vol. 9, no. 6 (November 2008)
PUBLICATIONS (POPULAR PRESS)
Staff Report, “Michael Burch Architects First Southern California Firm to Win Prestigious Palladio Award,” Pasadena
Now (September 23), 2013): accessed April 20, 2015. http://www.pasadenanow.com/main/michael-burch-architects-first-
southern- california-firm-to-win-prestigious-palladio-award/#.VTXwNK1Viko
2013 Lauren Beale “LA Times Home of the Week: La Canada,” The Los Angeles Times, (July 23, 2013)
2008 Taylor-Stark, Erna.“Local Homes Featured in New Book”. The Valley Sun (February)
TV & OTHER MEDIA
2008 ABC7 News
ICAA Philadelphia. (2021, January 19). Revealed, reviled & reborn: 100 years of California's Spanish Colonial/Mediterranean Revival [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDdP0Gpe3FQ (36,938 views)
AWARDS
2014 PALLADIO AWARD*
Adaptive Reuse and/or Sympathetic Addition Traditional Building & Period Homes Magazine
https://www.traditionalbuildingshow.com/winners-of-the-2014-competition
**The Palladio Design Awards are the only national awards given to projects that recognize excellence in traditional architecture
2018 LUXE RED AWARD (Luxe Magazine)
Regional Winner Major Restoration/Renovation
https://luxeredawards.com/winners/20753-michael-burch-architects/
2017 CROWN CITY AWARD* AIA PASADENA/FOOTHILL
*In recognition of high degree of quality detail & craft
EXHIBITIONS
2018 Venice Biennale
2016 Venice Biennale
2014 Venice Biennale
2012 Venice Biennale
2012 AIA Inland California
LECTURES / PRESENTATIONS
2018 AIA Inland California
2017 Palm Springs Modernism Week
2017 Pasadena Heritage Lecture
2013 AIA California Desert
2013 AIA Inland California
HOME TOURS
2010 ICA&A Tour (Institute of Classical Art & Architecture)
2006 22nd LCHS7/8 Home Tour (La Canada High School 7/8)