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Professor of the History of Architecture Howard Burns of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) is directing a project based out of a museum in Mantua, Italy, designed to recontruct a full-scale model of an early Renaissance Italian architect's home. Using only 16th-century documents, a few drawings...
Burns and a group of 13 GSD students and two Harvard fine arts graduate students were able to finish a 13-meter tall facade, and they will return to Mantua next June to complete the house, which is being built as an extension of the museum. The group is constructing...
"It was really exciting, because you saw something that hadn't existed for one doesn't know how many years rising before you. It jumped out from being a two-dimensional drawing to an impressive piece of Renaissance architecture that we had created," Burns says.
"We were moving back and forth from pictures to actual buildings. We had to extrapolate the building and come up with a design. It was a very difficult feat," says Martha Cassel, a second year GSD student who worked with Burns. "It was an unusual combination of art history and...
Burns was first contacted to direct the project about a year ago, when the local government of Mantua asked GSD officials to recommend an architect to work on the reconstruction. Burns was chosen because he is an expert on the architects and building construction of the Italian Renaissance of the...