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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 and analyses of Renaissance era houses still standing, Burns travelled to Mantua last summer with a "research cum-design cum-construction crew" of Harvard students to begin the project...
...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 studio work," she says...
...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...
...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 buildings and formal aspects helps you to understand the social, and one shouldn't look at one without the other...