Karen Burns

Foreword to the 2022 Edition

Karen Burns, Katie Lloyd Thomas

Book Chapter  |  2022

Making Space is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on wome..

The Bloomsbury World Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2015

Lori Brown, Karen Burns

Journal article  |  2021  |  Veredes, Arquitectura y Divulgacion

The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2015, is an innovative documentary project that maps the diversi..

Women, Media, Design, and Material Culture in Australia, 1880-1920

Karen Burns, Harriet Edquist

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Positions and Polarities Beyond Crisis

The archive has become a site of increasing focus and action in recent years. Concern with the demise of paper based knowledge sys..

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..

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..

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..

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 ..

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.

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

Karen Burns

Journal article  |  2019  |  RMIT Design Archives Journal

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

Karen Burns, Harriet Edquist

Journal article  |  2019  |  RMIT Design Archives Journal