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Burns says he hopes to display an exhibit on the Mantua project in Gund Hall this spring, which would feature a small scale model of Romano's house and photographs of the construction site.
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...
Burns says he changes his seminars' content each year to coincide with the work he has performed most recently; so, this year his fall seminar is about Romano.
Burns' main research interest is in the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian Renaissance architect who designed homes for Italian nobles. His studies and analyses of this man have focused not only on his building structures but also on the social implications of the palaces and villas he designed and...
"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...