David Burns

Senior Lecturer, School of Design
Course Director - Bachelor of Design in Photography and Situated Media, School of Design

Advance Architectual Design
Email: David.Burns@uts.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9514 8649
Fax: +61 2 9514 8787
Room: CB06.06.19 (map)
Mailing address: PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia

Biography
David was born in Tennessee and is the founding principal of SO-AD. David studied architecture at the University of Tennessee and Columbia University. He has fifteen years combined experience as an architect, designer, artist, musician and educator.

David’s work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Arch Moscow, Art City Calgary, and across the United States and has been published in Architectural Design, Metropolis, Abitare, Architectural Record, among others.

In 2001 David founded SO-AD and was joined in 2004 by Jason Morris. SO-AD an experimental design office focused on dissecting preconceived notions of perception, perspective and optics through the paradox of advanced digital techniques combined with simple physical realization. The goal of this research is a constant negotiation between the opportunities of the digital and the proximity of the analog. SO-AD’s client list includes the Andy Warhol Museum, the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, and the August Wilson Center for African American Culture.

He has worked for Asymptote Architecture, the Guggenheim Museum, and Holabird and Root. From 2001-2003 he was the Paul Rudolph Visiting Assistant Professor at Auburn University's School of Architecture and from 2003-2007 he was an adjunct assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the UTS School of Architecture.

Publications

Conference Papers

Burns, D. 2003, 'Operative Methods - IDM_Introduction to Digital Media', Unstaked Territories: Frontiers of Beginning Design, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK USA, April 2003 in Proceedings of Unstaked Territories: Frontiers of Beginning Design, ed Eric Connell, Oklahoma State University, College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology, Stillwater, OK USA, pp. n/p-n/p.

Original Creative Works

Burns, D. 2009, Moire Studies, Australian Architecture Association, Sydney Customs House.

Burns, D. 2009, Triptych 01, Art Guide Australia, DAB LAB Research Gallery.

Burns, D. 2008, Moire House, Australian Institute of Architects, Australian Pavilion, Venice.
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Burke, A.J., Hewett, B.R., Jakovich, J., Lahoud, A. & Burns, D. 2008, States of Convergence, Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Customs House, Sydney, Exhbiition Center, Florence (Beyond Media Festival).
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Burns, D. 2007, Banding, The Childrens Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
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Burns, D. 2007, Flux 15, Flux 15 Community Based Arts Group, Three Rivers Arts Festival.
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Burns, D. 2007, Footsteps, Salvage/Salvation, Pittsburgh.
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Burns, D. 2006, Out of Sync, Partisan Project.org, 5151 Gallery.
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Burns, D. 2005, End on End, Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh City Paper.
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Burns, D. 2005, Inside Out, Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Three Rivers Arts Festival.
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Burns, D. 2005, P.O.V., Mattress Factory Art Museum, Mattress Factory Art Museum.
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Other research activity

Burke, A.J., Burns, D. 2007, Continuum: Tactics for Contingent Environments, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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