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Dr

Karen Burns

Senior Lecturer In Architectural Design
Architecture, Building and Planning
architecture
arts & humanities
gender
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Dr

Karen Burns

 
Division
Architecture, Building and Planning
 
Primary Interest
Frontier Housing in 19th Century Australia
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Karen Burns

 
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Projects

Displaying the 1 most recent project by Karen Burns.

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EQUITY AND DIVERSITY IN THE AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE PROFESSION: WOMEN, WORK AND LEADERSHIP

This project will develop strategies to maximize women's participation in architecture, improving human resource practices within architectu..

2011 - 2014
Completed

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Project Types

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Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Karen Burns.

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Telling Transnational Histories of Women in Architecture, 1960–2015

Karen Burns, Lori Brown

Journal article  |  2020  |  Architectural Histories

This essay uses an emergent transnational research project — a global encyclopaedia of women in architecture — as a site for unset..

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Anthologizing Post-Structuralism: Architecture, Écriture, Gender, and Subjectivity

Karen Burns

Book Chapter  |  2020

This essay examines the poststructuralist practice of experimental writing in architecture during the 1980s and 1990s. It argues t..

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Time and Telegraphy: Nineteenth-Century Contexts for Stained Glass

Karen Burns

Journal article  |  2020  |  19: interdisciplinary studies in the long nineteenth century

Although nineteenth-century writers frequently conceived of rail travel as a dream space of collaged, fleeting, and disjunctive ex..

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Oral History as Activism: The Public Politics of Spoken Memory

Karen Burns

Book Chapter  |  2019

Oral testimony from those who actually occupy or construct buildings is rarely taken as seriously. Speaking of Buildings offers a ..

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Feminism, Activism, public scholarship

Karen Burns, Justine Clark

Book Chapter  |  2019

This book captures concepts and projects that reshape the discipline of architecture by prioritizing people over buildings.

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Robin Boyd, Meanjin and the problem of culture, 1948 - 1961

Karen Burns

Journal article  |  2019  |  RMIT Design Archives Journal

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Robin Boyd: The Media and the Masses, 1947-1970

Karen Burns, Harriet Edquist

Journal article  |  2019  |  RMIT Design Archives Journal

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Intersectional and Transnational Feminist Histories: The Logic Behind The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture

Lori Brown, Karen Burns

Book Chapter  |  2018

Extensive work is a result of four year research within the international project Women's Creativity since the Modern Movement, an..

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Feminist Theory and Praxis,1991 -2003

K Burns

Book Chapter  |  2018

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Constructing Australian Architecture for International Audiences: Regionalism, Postmodernism, and the Design Arts Board 1980-1988

Paul Walker, Karen Burns

Journal article  |  2018  |  Fabrications

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Keyword Analysis

Architecture
Expanding Knowledge
Arts and Leisure
Understanding Past Societies
Architecture and Urban Environment
Other Arts
Heritage
Philosophy
Art Theory and Criticism
Construction Processes

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2010

Shortlist, Best Conference Paper

Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand
2009

Best Conference Paper

Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Senior Lecturer In Architectural Design

Architecture, Building and Planning

Executive Committee

Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand

Education

Master of Arts

Monash University

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

University of Melbourne

BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONOURS)

Monash University

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