Burt Hill Architects

Burt Hill Architects was an American architectural firm active, under several names, in Butler and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere from 1968 until its 2010 acquisition by Stantec.

Architects Ralph H. Burt Jr. (1923–2005) and Alva L. Hill Jr. (1920–2015) were both natives of Pennsylvania and attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh with the class of 1952 before joining Howard & Murphy in Butler.

[1] Under Burt and Hill's leadership the firm rapidly expanded, opening offices in Pittsburgh in 1971 and Fort Myers, Florida, in 1973.

By the early 1990s it had additional offices in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Houston and was noted as the largest architectural firm in Western Pennsylvania.

The firm invested heavily in its international practice, and faltered after the 2007–2008 financial crisis led to the suspension of many proposed projects in the Persian Gulf.

The Westin Convention Center Pittsburgh of Liberty Center, completed in 1986.
The Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , completed in 2006.