Taylor & Burns Architects

Taylor & Burns Architects
Bennington College Student Center
Practice information
Key architects	Robert J. Taylor Carol Burns
Location	Boston, MA
Founded	1993
Work
Buildings	Founders' Hall at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, Gamm Theater
Awards	BSA Honor Award for Design Excellence

Taylor & Burns Architects is a LEED-accredited architectural firm founded in 1993 and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm has two principals, Robert J. Taylor and Carol Burns, and has designed for education, performing arts, worship and civic communities. They are especially known for their work in creating assembly spaces for large groups.

Robert J. Taylor, AIA, studied at the University of Waterloo and received his Master of Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture. He has worked for Cesar Pelli & Associates, served on the Board of Boston Society of Architects as Commissioner of Honors and Awards, been a visiting critic at Yale, Harvard, MIT and RISD, and written articles for numerous publications.

Carol Burns, FAIA, studied at Bryn Mawr College and Yale University and received her Master of Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture. She has written and researched extensively and has taught at Yale, Harvard, MIT and other schools, serving as the director of the Harvard Institute of Affordable Housing. She co-founded a Boston Society of Architects' program for Architectural Research Grants and currently serves as the chair of the Boston Art Commission.^[1]

Projects

Institutions

• Bennington College Student Center, Bennington, Vermont ^[2][3]

• Music and Theater Facilities, Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts

• Founders' Hall at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kansas City, Missouri ^[4]

• Casa Nueva Vida, Boston, Massachusetts

• Pawtucket Armory Arts Exchange, Gamm Theater, Jacqueline Walsh High School for the Arts, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Master Plans and Studies

• Master Plan for St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Brattleboro, Vermont

• Master Plan for Trinity Episcopal Church, Concord, Massachusetts

• Feasibility Study for Yale University Institute for Social and Policy Studies

• Study for Great Falls Arts Center, City of Auburn, Maine, including business plan for the Community Little Theatre

• Study for Green Technology Center, City of Lowell, Massachusetts

Research and Exhibitions

• Out of the Box - Design Innovations in Manufactured Housing, Exhibit at the Field Museum, Chicago, 2005 ^[5][6]
• Manufactured Housing : A Double Wide Analysis

• New Blue Exhibit, Yale Art & Architecture Gallery, 2001 ^[7][8]

Awards

Founders' Hall, Kansas City, Missouri.

• Bennington College Student Center in Bennington
  • Honor Award for Design Excellence, Boston Society of Architects - 2008 ^[9][10]
  • Honor Award for Design Excellence, AIA New England - 2008

• Music and Theater Facilities at Salem State College
  • Honor Award, Boston Society of Architects - 2008 ^[11][12]

• The Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral Founders' Hall in Kansas City, Missouri
  • Millennium Design Award, Faith & Form magazine and the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art, & Architecture - 2000 ^[13]
  • Masonry Magazine Project of the Year Award - 1999 ^[14]

• Harvard Graduate School of Design Core Studio - Design of Housing/Relationships of Scale
  • 1996 AIA Education Honors Award, National Award in Recognition of Innovative Curriculum ^[15]

External links

• Taylor & Burns Architects Website
  • Carol Burns on Linkedin.com
  • Robert J. Taylor on Linkedin.com

Books and Articles

• Subject Matters: Review of Site Matters edited by Carol Burns by Charles Waldheim, Scapes No. 4, Fall 2005
• Perspecta 21 edited by Carol Burns and Robert Taylor
• Reprising Rudolph's High Notes by Robert J. Taylor from Inform Architecture + Design in the Mid-Atlantic Magazine, Volume One, 2004
• Architects More At Home With Student Housing by Robert J. Taylor from Banker & Tradesman, August 11, 2003
• Words and Pictures: Recent Books by Fumihiko Maki and Shigeru Ban by Robert J. Taylor from Places, March 2010
• Massive Change by Bruce Mau, with contribution by Carol Burns
• Reflections on Architectural Practices in the Nineties with contribution by Carol Burns
• The Discipline of Architecture edited by Andrzej Piotrowski with contribution by Carol Burns
• Studio Works: #6: Harvard University Graduate School of Design (No. 6) with contribution by Carol Burns
• On Site: Architectural Preoccupations by Carol Burns from Drawing Building Text edited by Andrea Kahn
• Re: Views of Findings on Architecture's Way Forward by Carol Burns from Journal of Architectural Education, 1998
• Head Juror and Brief Author for Lycheum Competition, Reinventing the House on Wheels"
• Cited in Looking Back at Landscape Urbanism: Speculations on Site by Julia Czerniak in The Landscape Urbanism Reader
• Quoted in Fab Prefab in The Boston Globe, July 15, 2004 by Diane Daniel
• Discussed in Out of the Box: Design Innovations in Manufactured Housing by Roberta M. Feldman in Metropolis Magazine
• 2004 Massivechange.com interview with Carol Burns

References