Word: architecturee
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At the GSD, Burns' course offerings reflect his interests in ancient and Renaissance architecture. He carries a typical teaching load at the school, supervising one full-year survey course and two half-year seminars on subjects such as Mesopotamian structures and ancient Greek and Roman buildings, as well as seminars...
"These two approaches--concern with the formal aspect of architecture and design and the social twist of that study--have been seen as very distinct, if not diametrically opposed," Burns says. "I think one can't understand the formal solutions and approach unless one understands the social side too. Studying...
Working at the GSD has given Burns a different approach to the study of the history of architecture. "Here at the GSD, I'm working with architects that have perceptions and skills that an art historian doesn't have, and this has stimulated my own understanding of architecture," Burns says...
The GSD also puts much more of an emphasis on architectural history than other graduate architecture programs, Burns says. "There's a general awareness now that history forms an integral part of an architectural education. Its value is not so much to provide motifs but as a lab in which...
Burns says that his interest in studying architecture and its history extends back to experiences he had during his youth. "I think [my interest in this field] goes back to childhood experiences. One of my earliest memories is of staying in an old hotel in Birmingham. I'd never been...