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Danelle Guthrie

Lecturer in Architecture

Office: 3139

danelleg@umich.edu

Teaching Areas:

  • Design

Danelle Guthrie is an architect, a founding principal of Guthrie+Buresh Architects/G+B Projects LLC and an educator. She received a BA in Architecture from UC Berkeley in 1981 and a M. Arch. from UCLA in 1985. In 2001 she was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the Architecture Department at UCLA.

Established in 1988, Guthrie+Buresh have designed academic facilities, public works, mixed-use projects, multiple and single family residences, office interiors and exhibitions. Since relocating to Michigan from California in 2001 Danelle has worked with nonprofit developers and students to develop affordable housing solutions in Detroit and Ypsilanti, produced a competition entry for an art school master plan and completed a residential remodel/addition and a single-family residence. She is currently the principal in charge of development, design and construction of a mixed-use project in downtown Ann Arbor. Concurrent with her professional activities Danelle teaches design at the University of Michigan. For the thirteen years prior she held academic appointments at SCI-Arc, UCLA, Washington University, St. Louis, University of Texas, Austin, the University of Minnesota and UC Berkeley.

In 1998, Miller/Guthrie+Buresh's WaterWorks AWTP project received a Progressive Architecture Awards Citation from Architecture Magazine. That same year Guthrie+Buresh participated in an invited competition for a Fine Arts Building at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. In 1999 their work was included in the exhibitions "Glasgow Art and Architecture-1999", and "The Un-private House" at MoMA in New York. Additionally their project, CoMA was featured in "The Millennium- Futures to Come" commissioned for the December 1999 issue of Architectural Record and exhibited at the Max Protetch Gallery in New York.

Articles and projects by Guthrie and Buresh have been published in numerous periodicals including; Lotus Document, A+U, Architecture Magazine, Architectural Record, Architectural Design, Architectural Review, Architecti and several books; New American House 2, From the Center: SCI-Arc Faculty Work, Re: American Dream, Experimental Architecture in Los Angeles and Violated Perfection as well as the New York and Los Angeles Times, The firm's work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, New Haven, Barcelona, London, Glasgow, Copenhagen, Berlin, Vienna and Tokyo.

Danelle Guthrie has lectured and/or been a visiting critic at the University of Toronto, Ontario Academy of Art and Design, UCLA, Stanford University, University of Texas, University of Minnesota, UC Berkeley, University of Idaho, Arizona State University, Washington University, Iowa State University, University of British Columbia and the Emerging Voices Series at the Architectural League of New York.