Lovell Burton Architecture is a Melbourne based studio specializing in architecture, landscape and interiors. We share a common endeavour to shape built environments with a social, environmental and fiscal approach.
We like to think of our projects as a reflection of our clients, the place and the purpose at hand. Over time the practice has evolved to include people with diverse interest and backgrounds. Clients, makers, students, builders and peers each contributing the seeds of new ideas and directions that the practice is able to build upon. We are inclusive and always curious to understand other unique perspectives.
At its core, the work of the practice celebrates life, relationships, stories and the richness of our shared environments. We seek to extract clear, legible ideas that capture the essence and beauty of place, respectfully. We do this with the aim to offer a heightened experience of a place to people that inhabit it.
We believe in architecture’s restorative potential to repair and mend urban fabric as well as inspire and be wholly life-enhancing. We aspire to create environments that house memory and invite people to connect with each other or themselves.
It is important and intuitive to the practice that the built environment reinforces the quality of being at home in the world. That projects, whether in the public or private sphere, provide a physical framework for each person to feel supported in their day-to-day activities. To achieve this, the practice consciously seeks to engage all our bodily senses, to create environments that are experienced through touch, smell, sound, as well as sight.
Architecture isn't pure, it is messy and imperfect. Our projects celebrate the resonance of space and atmosphere through texture, grit and material. We are inspired by the relationship and properties of materials that encourage interaction and create an emotive response. From a broad scale down to minute details, we contemplate the one-on-one interactions with a building, where you may touch a handrail, open a drawer, perceive the framing of a view, understand the way materials join or appreciate the quality of light and shadow.
This fascination with the tactility of material and making drives the process of the practice. We employ a range of mediums and also our own divergent interests through art, literature and research to look at each project with a fresh set of eyes. We value the importance of these broader influences to inform how we think about the world and our place within it.
People
Directors
Stephanie Burton
Joseph Lovell
Studio Members
Lucia Amies, Miles Ritzmann-Williams, Bradley Mitchell
Collaborators
Studio Tate, Studio Manifold, Arce, Amanda Oliver Gardens, Jala Landscapes
Awards
[Commendation] 2021 AIA Victorian Architecture Awards, Residential Architecture (Alterations & Additions) - Northcote Terrace
[Commendation] 2021 Houses Awards, Housing (Alterations & Additions Under 200 Sqm) - Northcote Terrace
[Winner] 2019 AIA Victorian Architecture Awards, Residential Architecture New - Springhill House
[Commendation] 2019 AIA Victorian Architecture Awards, Colorbond Award for Steel - Springhill House
[Winner] 2019 Architeam Awards, Architeam Medal - Springhill House
[Winner] 2019 Architeam Awards, Residential New Award - Springhill House
[Shortlisted] 2019 Dezeen Awards (International), Rural Catagory - Springhill House
[Shortlisted] 2019 Australian Interior Design Awards Residential Design - Barwon Heads House
[Winner] 2018 Houses Awards, Housing (New House Under 200 Sqm) - Springhill House
[Commendation] 2018 Houses Awards, Sustainability - Springhill House
[Shortlisted] 2018 Houses Awards,
Housing (New House Over 200 Sqm) - Barwon Heads House
[Shortlisted] 2018 Houses Awards, Sustainability Award - Barwon Heads House
[Shortlisted] 2018 AIA Victorian Chapter Awards, Residential New - Barwon Heads House
Press
‘(33) Documents of Contemporary Australian Architecture & Their Associated Short Stories’ by Guillermo Fernandez-Abascal, Kate Finning, Urtzi Grau, Anna Tonkin 2022 Uro Press
‘Seeing the Light’ by Marcus Baumgart Houses #142 ‘Small But Mighty’ October 2021
‘A New Start’ by Eleanor Rice
Enki #14 ‘Ecology… Ergonomics…Technology…Architecture"‘
May/ June 2019
‘The Perfect Playground’ by Holly Cunnen
Habitus #43 ‘The Design Conscious Issue”
March/ May 2019
‘One to Watch’ by Katelin Butler
Houses #125 ‘Into the Groove’
December 2018