douglas burnham, principal and founder

Burnham’s range of experience includes residential, educational, commercial, civic and hospitality building and renovation projects as well as exhibition design, product design, furniture and custom lighting fixtures.

His work has been published in magazines and journals including dwell, Architectural Record, Metropolitan Home, Interior Design, Artweek, Assemblage, and the San Francisco Examiner Magazine.

Burnham has lectured in the U.S. and in Europe and is an Adjunct Faculty Member at the California College of Arts in San Francisco. He is an active board member of the Berkeley Montessori School, where he was recently instrumental in the design and implementation of a seismic upgrade and stewarded the design and construction of a new school facility.



Burnham is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Architecture where he received the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Prize for his final thesis work. Before establishing his own firm in 1998, Burnham worked for six years with the Interim Office Of Architecture (IOOA) in San Francisco, California.