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"I still find my history background useful," says Burns, who has been at the GSD for two years. "People come up with problems [in understanding different approaches toward design], and because I have that background, I am at least able to point them in the right sort of direction."
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...
During his undergraduate years, Burns, who grew up in London, studied general history at Cambridge University. He then remained at Cambridge for several years, serving as a fellow in architectural history at King's College and studying there for a graduate degree simultaneously.