FOUNDED BY AN UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO DESIGN EXCELLENCE

Our firm’s fluency in architecture, design, and development encompasses everything from large-scale mixed-use retail complexes, flagship stand alone restaurants, and historic cultural centers to bespoke home builds, historic home restorations, and imaginative residential renovations. We bring over 32 years of experience delivering enduring architectural designs anchored in sustainability and custom-built to address the needs of the people who live, eat, shop, work, and play there. We’re active listeners who partner closely with key stakeholders - business owners, homeowners, developers, restaurateurs - to engineer innovative solutions through master planning, architecture, and design that ensure we smartly and successfully realize a project’s paramount purpose. 

Ours is an interactive, iterative, shapeshifting practice that eschews one signature architectural style to answer for the varying needs and design preferences of our clients. We take a thoughtful, hands-on approach to charting resourceful, fiscally-responsible plans that result in memorable spaces that speak to client, site, and community needs with an eye toward sustainable, environmentally-aware architecture. We appreciate how carefully-considered design impacts not only the world around, but also directly enhances a property’s potential and value. Additionally, our broad design-build experience makes us incredibly sensitive to costs. 

DON BURKE FOUNDER/PRINCIPAL

Don Burke Architect Nashville Franklin Middle Tennessee

Burke Architecture and Design Associates is a boutique, independent architecture studio dedicated to thoughtfully advancing commercial and residential projects across greater Nashville for 30+ years, guided by the design ethos of Don Burke (Principal). A native of Wilkes-Barre, PA, Don’s lifelong passion for architecture and design dates back to childhood, where an astute teacher recognized his talent and gifted him his first drafting board and T-Square at just nine years old. Don began his career with Edwards & Hotchkiss where he spent ten years working on the historic transformation of the Factory at Franklin into one of the region’s most visited shopping, dining, and entertainment destinations. From there, he went off to start his first firm, Burke Koffee, for eight years before launching Burke Architecture and Design Associates. Don holds a Masters Degree from Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), and his commitment to his craft includes over 15 years as an adjunct professor at Belmont University’s O’More College of Art & Design leading Studio Classes, Foundations, Drafting, and 20th Century Architectural & Interior Design History. Don lives in Franklin, TN, with his wife and young daughter.