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Wendell Burnette is a self-taught architect and principal of Wendell Burnette Architects (WBA), which he established in 1996 after a three-year period at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and an eleven-year association with William Bruder. He has been an assistant professor at The Design School at Arizona State University since 2000. Burnette’s design philosophy is grounded in distilling the essence of a project to create highly specific architecture that is at once functional and poetic. He has traveled widely in Asia, Europe, Africa, and Central and North America where he has assimilated a personal perspective on the “art of place making.” The work of Wendell Burnette Architects has been presented in more than 100 publications worldwide, including The Burnette Studio/Residence, a single building monograph published by Rockport Press and each Phaidon Atlas of World Architecture in 2004 and 2008. WBA has earned numerous honors, including a 1990 Young Architects Award from Progressive Architecture Magazine, a 1999 Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York, three Record House Awards in 1996, 2000, and 2006 and a 2007 National AIA Honor Award for the Palo Verde Library/Maryvale Community Center. Burnette has taught around the nation, including at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Exhibitions include Design Culture Now at the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York and The Desert as Client, a recent exhibit/symposium in Barcelona, Spain. Most recently, Burnette received the prestigious 2009 Academy Award for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, recognizing an American architect whose work is characterized by a strong personal direction, which was accompanied by an exhibition of his work at the American Academy in New York City. Current and recent work by Wendell Burnette Architects includes award-winning projects on multiple scales in Arizona, reaching across the United States, and in British Columbia.