ABSTRACT
Carol J. Burns, an architect and academician, is a partner at Taylor & Burns Architects, in Boston, MA. Built projects by her firm have been exhibited and published internationally. She has taught at Harvard and MIT for fifteen years and, as a visitor, at Yale, University of Virginia, and elsewhere. Her research in practice and teaching focuses on buildings and the spaces between them, relating architectural theory to professional and social practices and to evolving urban form. She has written on professional education and practice, housing, and the site as a factor in design. Burns is contributing editor of Thinking the Present (1990) and Perspecta 21 (1984).
