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Tom J. Buresh is a Professor of Architecture at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning the University of Michigan and Principal of Guthrie + Buresh Architects.

Buresh received a BA in Architecture from Iowa State University and Master of Architecture from the University of California, at Los Angeles. From 1988 to 2001, he was a member of the faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. During the same period he held visiting appointments at the University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Berkeley; Rice University; University of Melbourne; University of Texas, Austin and the University of Minnesota.

In 1988, he and Danelle Guthrie established Guthrie + Buresh Architects. Their work has been published in over 45 books, periodicals and newspapers and exhibited internationally including the cities of New York, Los Angeles, Barcelona, London, Copenhagen, Vienna and Tokyo. In 1998 Millar/Guthrie + Buresh's project WaterWorks AWTP received a Progressive Architecture Awards Citation from Architecture Magazine. Guthrie + Buresh's project WorkHouse was featured in "The Un-private House" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Buresh was the Dinkeloo Fellow at the American Academy in Rome in 1986. The College of Design at Iowa State University named him their 2000 Distinguished Alumnus and in 2001 he was recognized as the Distinguished Alumnus by the Department of Architecture at the University of California in Los Angeles. Buresh served as Chair of the Architecture Program at Taubman College from 2001–09 where he received the 2003 Donna M. Salzer Award for excellence in teaching and the 2004 Faculty Service Award. In 2009 he was named the Emil Lorch Collegiate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning.