Dr Karen Burns is an architectural historian and theorist, and a lecturer in the School of Architecture at Monash University.
Dr Karen Burns's Latest contributions
Who wants to be a ‘woman architect’?
Does the term “woman architect” render women in architecture as second-class citizens in the business or could it be used as an act of political activism to dramatize inequity? Karen Burns discusses.
Why do women leave?
Karen Burns examines the responses to a Parlour survey that tries to establish why women leave the architecture profession.
Advertisements for architecture 2009
Karen Burns speculates on the cultural role of advertising and its relationship to architecture in this exhibition.
Women in architecture
A complex set of factors influences the participation of women in architecture. Karen Burns picks apart the issues.
Michael Corridore: Angry Black Snake
Environmental effects and their emotive consequences are explored in these curious photographs.
The Urban Workshop
Tower urbanism. The Urban Workshop, by John Wardle Architects, NHArchitecture and Hassell in joint venture, collects histories of its site, the city and the tower into an intense constellation of forms and ideas.
Building/Wall
Two houses by Brearley Middleton differently explore the architectural possibilitiesof the wall.