Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
PhD candidate

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York, NY
Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Bachelor of Architecture

Royal College of Art School of Architecture, London, UK
Coordinator, Media Studies (2016-present)
ADS7 Visiting Lecturer (2015-2019)
MRes Visiting Lecturer (2016-2017)

N Collective
Co-founder

University of Technology Sydney School of Design, Sydney, NSW Australia
Director and Senior Lecturer, Photography and Situated Media

University of Technology Sydney School of Architecture, Sydney, NSW Australia
Senior Lecturer

Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Visiting Professor

Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture, Pittsburgh, PA
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Auburn University School of Architecture, Auburn, AL
Paul Rudolph Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture

SO-AD, New York, Pittsburgh, and Sydney
Director and Co-founder

Asymptote / Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Lead Designer

Holabird & Root, Chicago, IL

DeStefano and Partners, Chicago, IL

McCarty Holsaple McCarty, Knoxville, TN

Architectural Association, Auburn University, Auburn University Rural Studio, UCL Bartlett March Urban Design, California College of the Arts School of Architecture, California College of the Arts School of Photography, Carnegie Mellon University School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture, Columbia University GSAPP, Centre for Research Architecture – Goldsmiths University of London, Monash University, Ohio State University, National Art School Sydney, RMIT, Royal College of Art, Syracuse University London, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts, University of Pittsburgh, University of South Australia, University of Sydney, University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Tennessee, University of Western Australia

Lecture : "Apocalyptic Archives: Nuclear Landscapes & Material Histories" with Susan Schuppli
Birkbeck, London (6 December 2019)

Lecture / Symposium: "The Material-Media Histories of Maralinga", Climate Summit
Architecture Association, London

Chair / Symposium: The Camera as Tool at the symposium: The Medium is the Message
Magnum Photos, Barbican, London

Keynote lecture / Symposium: “(Re)Mediated States or A Nuclear Futures False Positive”, Representations/Investigations: Media in architecture, the territory and the urban
Architecture Association, London

Symposium: "Sense-detection Colonialism", Image/Object Symposium
Royal College of Art, London

Symposium: “So our future was broken.”, Nuclear Culture Research Symposium
Goldsmiths, University of London

Lecture: "Extraterritoriality and the Bomb"
Monash University, Melbourne VIC Australia

Lecture: "Extraterritoriality and the Bomb"
University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD Australia

Lecture: "Extraterritoriality and the Bomb"
University of the New South Wales, Sydney NSW Australia

Workshop: Nuit Blanche Design Charette
Ecole Superior d’Architecture and Paris College of Art, Paris France

Lecture: “Memory and the Copy: Thomas Demand and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe"
Royal College of Art MPhil, London, UK

Moderator: Keynote Roundtable for Photography in Academic Research
UCL, London, UK

Lecture: "Politics, the Political, and the Image"
University of New South Wales, College of Art and Design, Sydney NSW Australia

Panel Discussion: "Shaun Gladwell in Conversation with Greg Ferris and David Burns"
University of New South Wales, College of Art and Design, Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture: "5 Years of Photography and Situated Media", UTS, Sydney NSW Australia

Panel Discussion: "Architecture as Public Art: Beyond the Object", David Burns, Sam Spurr, and Urtzi Grau, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture: "The Political Image", UTS School of Architecture, Sydney NSW Australia

Public Interview: "Robert Beson and Gabriele Ulacco in conversation with David Burns", Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney NSW Australia

Panel Discussion: "City, Spaces, and the Arts", SAMAG (Sydney Arts Management Advisory Group), Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture: "Remaining Other", University of Sydney School of Architecture, Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture/Workshop: "Remaining Other: Curating", Goldsmiths Centre for Research Architecture, Architectural Association, UCL Bartlett March Urban Design, London, UK

Lecture/Workshop: "Remaining Other: Publishing", Goldsmiths Centre for Research Architecture, Architectural Association, UCL Bartlett March Urban Design, London, UK

Lecture: "What Destroys What", Monash University, Melbourne VIC Australia

Lecture: "Image and architecture", UTS School of Architecture, Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture: "New Collectivity", University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia

Workshop: "Dissonance", Audio Architecture, Arts Centre, Melbourne VIC Australia (N)

Public Interview: Stefan Sagmeister with Sam Spurr, Sydney NSW Australia (N)

Public Interview: Ilse Crawford with Sam Spurr, Sydne, NSW Australia (N)

Public Interview: WORKac with Sam Spurr, Sydney NSW Australia (N)

Public Interview: Rotor with Sam Spurr, Sydney NSW Australia (N)

Public Interview: Broached Commissions with Sam Spurr, Sydney NSW Australia (N)

Public Interview: Anthony Burke, Gerard Reinmuth, and Toko with Sam Spurr, Sydney NSW Australia (N)

Lecture: "Collective Practice" with Sam Spurr, UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sydney NSW Australia

Panel Discussion: "The Real, Presence and Absence" hosted by Andrew Benjamin Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture: "Partial Architectures Gallery Talk", Gallery 103, Knoxville, TN

Symposium: "INDEX Forum" Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture: "N", Pecha Kucha, Hyde Park, Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture: "Reflections on the Australian Contribution to the 2011 Prague Quadrennial", DAB LAB Research Gallery

Lecture: "Ketamine, Corridors & Repetition", UTS School of Design, Bachelor of Design in Interior and Spatial Design

Panel Discussion: "Curator's Talk", 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague, Czech Republic

Symposium: "Co-isolated" with Richard Goodwin, Michael Snape, Adrian Lahoud, Tarsha Finney, Adam Jasper, Adam Geczy, Sydney NSW Australia

Workshop: "Beirut Workshop" with Adrian Lahoud and Adam Jasper, UTS School of Architecture and School of Design

Lecture: "Ketamine, Corridors & Repetition", University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture

Lecture: "Triptychs, Images and Vitriol", University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture: "Triptychs and Other Obsessions", DAB LAB Gallery, Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture: "Image as Architecture", University of Western Australia, Perth WA Australia

Lecture: "Messy Digital", PTW Architecture, Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture: "Image as Architecture", Terroir Architecture, Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture: "Image as Architecture", UTS School of Architecture, Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture: "DIY", Pecha Kucha Sydney V10, MLC Centre, Martin Place, Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture: "Proximities", SONA 2008, Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture: "Proximities", University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia

Panel Discussion: "The State of the Image in Architecture", moderator, 937 Liberty Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Lecture: "Digital Design and Fabrication in Contemporary Practice", Pittsburgh Builds AIA Convention, Pittsburgh, PA

Lecture: "Recent SO-AD Work", Carnegie Mellon University School of Design, Pittsburgh, PA

Panel Discussion: "Architecture, Sustainability and Education", 2006 AIAS Quadrant Conference, Pittsburgh, PA

Workshop: "Borderlands", Havana, Cuba, Auburn University

Conference Presentation: "IDM: Introduction to Digital Media", Oklahoma State University, 19th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student

Lecture: "Recent SO-AD Work", University of Pittsburgh, Architecture Club Lecture Series

Partial Architectures, EDGE studio Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Partial Architectures, Gallery 103, Knoxville, TN

Triptych 01, DAB LAB Gallery, Sydney, NSW Australia

ENDonEND, Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Strategy - Recent Work by SO-AD, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

Sewn Steel with Jill Daves, 2111 S. Griffith, Champaign, IL

Todd McMillan, Michael Moran, David Burns: New Work, Carlton Project Space, Sydney, NSW Australia

20x20x20, NG Gallery, Sydney, NSW Australia

What Destroys What, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, NSW Australia

Past Futures, Present, Futures, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY

Co-isolated: Richard Goodwin, Michael Snape, David Burns Wentworth Mine, Lucknow, NSW
Sponsored by the Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, NSW Australia

Co-isolated: Richard Goodwin, Michael Snape, David Burns Sydney, NSW Australia

Remodelling Architecture Australian Architecture Association, Sydney Customs House, Sydney, NSW

Abundant Australia, Venice Architecture Biennale, Australian Pavilion, Venice, Italy

Arise Braddock, PA

Sydney Future Visions, Sydney Customs House, Sydney, NSW Australia with Anthony Burke, Joanne Jakovich and others

Artwalk, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

First Night Pittsburgh 2007, Fifth Avenue Place, Pittsburgh, PA

The Charm Bracelet, Project Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Partisan Project 2006, 5151 Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Unconscious Alabama, Auburn, AL

AIGA PGH 100, Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Threads, Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture Gallery

By Design, Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Gestures, Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Sept 11 / 7 Projects, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

Peep Show, ArtCity, Calgary, AB Canada

Architectural Laboratories, Arch Moscow, Central House of the Artist, Moscow, Russia
with Hani Rashid Studio, Columbia University: Paul Preissner, Megumi Tamanaha, Jason Tax and Dragana Zoric

Architectural Laboratories, Venice Architecture Biennale, American Pavilion, Venice, Italy
with Hani Rashid Studio, Columbia University: Paul Preissner, Megumi Tamanaha, Jason Tax and Dragana Zoric

End of Year Show, Columbia University, New York, NY
with Hani Rashid Studio, Columbia University: Paul Preissner, Megumi Tamanaha, Jason Tax and Dragana Zoric

Lecture Series: 2016 International Lecture Series, RCA, London, UK
Featuring: Charles Renfro (Diller Scofidio + Renfro), Jeanne Gang, Chris Lee (Serie), Christian Kerez, Jean Phillipe Vassal (Lacaton & Vassal), Ascan Mergenthaler (Herzog & de Meuron)

Lecture Series: 2015 Image Studies Public Lecture Series, Sydney, NSW Australia Featuring Mike Parr, Fake Industries Architectural Agonism – Urtzi Grau and Cristina Goberna, Techa Noble, Geoffrey Batchen, Sebastian Goldspink, Tim Bruniges, Justine Varga, Marian Tubbs (2015)

Exhibition: Jill Daves and Natalya Hughes, Carlton Project Space, Sydney NSW Australia

Exhibition: Subtext, Central, Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture Series: 2014 Image Studies Public Lecture Series, Sydney, NSW Australia

Featuring David Claerbout, Krisztina Erdei, Geoffrey Batchen, Richard Bell, Richard Goodwin, Susan Best, nova Milne, Robert Beson, Ian Burns, Max Doyle, Joshua Heath, Claire Evans, Sarah Mosca and Kim Fasher, Samuel Hodge (2014)

Exhibition: Situations, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture Series: 2013 Image Studies Public Lecture Series, Sydney, NSW Australia

Featuring David Claerbout, Krisztina Erdei, Geoffrey Batchen, Richard Bell, Richard Goodwin, Susan Best, nova Milne, Robert Beson, Ian Burns, Max Doyle, Joshua Heath, Claire Evans, Sarah Mosca and Kim Fasher, Samuel Hodge (2014)

Exhibition: What Destroys What, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney NSW

Exhibition: Dissonance, Pin-up Gallery, Melbourne VIC

Event: The Doppelgänger Parlour, in association with Kaldor Public Art Projects, Project #25: "The Dailies" by Thomas Demand, Sydney, NSW

Event: The Mirror Parlour, in association with Kaldor Public Art Projects, Project #25: "The Dailies" by Thomas Demand, Sydney, NSW

Lecture: In Conversation: Thomas Demand and Sylvia Lavin, in association with Kaldor Public Art Projects, Project #25: The Dailies by Thomas Demand, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW

Lecture: In Conversation: Sylvia Lavin and Charles Rice, in association with Kaldor Public Art Projects, Project #25: The Dailies by Thomas Demand, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW

Lecture Series: 2012 Image Studies Public Lecture Series, Sydney, NSW Australia
Featuring Thomas Demand, Sylvia Lavin, Charles Rice, Kerstin Hacker, Judy Annear, Andrew Hurle, Adam Jasper, Andrew Benjamin, Robert Sinnerbrink, Jill Bennett, Daniel Palmer, Christopher Stewart and Soda_Jerk

Exhibition: Networks of surrender. Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju, Korea

Exhibition: How to be a good witness. Australian Architecture Section, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague, CZ

Exhibition: Open Agenda, Sydney Customs House

Exhibition: Chapters, Queen Street Studios, Sydney NSW Australia

Exhibition: Alternate Realities, Kensington Street Gallery, Sydney NSW Australia

Lecture Series: 2011 Image Studies Public Lecture Series, Sydney, NSW Australia

Featuring Gregory Crewdson, Bill Henson, Anne Ferran, Stephen Dupont, Blair French, Prudence Murphy, Liza Statton, Hayden Fowler and Conor O'Brien

Exhibition: Open Agenda, Customs House Sydney, NSW Australia

Exhibition: Hydra, Queen Street Studios, Sydney NSW Australia

Exhibition: INDEX, UTS Gallery, Sydney NSW Australia

Exhibition: Image Intervention, UTS, Sydney NSW Australia

FLUX15, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA

Continuum, 937 Liberty Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Wrinkles, 820 Liberty Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Lecture Series: 2007 School of Architecture Lecture Series, co-coordinator, Carnegie Mellon University

Featuring Greg Lynn, Kazuyo Sejima, Anthony Burke, and more

BEYOND MEDIA International Festival of Architecture and Media, Florence, Italy

Threads, Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture

Lecture Series: 2004-2005 School of Architecture Lecture Series, committee member, Carnegie Mellon University

Lecture Series: 2003-2004 School of Architecture Lecture Series, co-coordinator, Carnegie Mellon University
Featuring Hani Rashid, Aaron Betsky, Gilles Saucier, Louisa Hutton, and more

Pella Windows Portfolio Prize, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

Lecture Series: 2002-2003 School of Architecture Lecture Series, co-coordinator, Auburn University

Featuring Lebbeus Woods, Michael Bell, Preston Scott Cohen, Lucy Lippard, Mary Miss, Darrell Fields, Jennifer Bloomer, Robert Segrest

Symposium: Digital Boundaries, co-coordinator, Auburn University

Featuring Dennis Sheldon, Hermann Zschiegner, Jonas Coersmeier, Dean Di Simone, Joseph Kosinski, Shane Williamson, Marco Steinberg

Projections, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

Sept 11 / 7 Projects, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

Burns, David. RCA Architecture Research Folios. RCA School of Architecture, 2018.

Burns, David, and Sam Spurr. " How to be a Good Witness: The Architecture Curator.” The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design, edited by Chris Brisbin and Myra Thiessen. Routledge, 2018, pp. 71-91. 

Burns, David. Fables for the Drone Age by Richard Goodwin. N Editions, 2017.

Burns, David. RCA Architecture Research Folios. RCA School of Architecture, 2017.

Burns, David. "The Eyes Have It and the Eyes Always Will." e-flux, 1 January 2017.

Burns, David. “The Pacific Solution.” Disegno, Winter 2017.

Burns, David. Honours, UTS Books, 2014.

Burns, David. “Agonistic Education.” Photofile, #96.

Burns, David. Subtext, UTS Books, 2014.

Burns, David, and Sam Spurr, “How to be a good witness: The Architecture Curator” Critique Conference Proceedings, University of South Australia, 2013.

Burns, David. Situations, UTS Books, 2013.

Burns, David. What Destroys What, Firstdraft Gallery, 2012.

Burns, David. “Leichardt House by Terroir.” Monument #99, 2010.

Burns, David. AGENDA 2008, DAB DOCS #10, Sydney NSW Australia, 2009.

Burns, David. “A Call for Parametric Design” Script, edited by Paola Giaconia. Editrice Compositori, 2005. pp. 16-19.

Holt, Michael. “In Profile: N collective.” Australian Design Review

Chatterjee, Anuradha. “N: Speaking in Different Voices.” World Architecture News Metro Blog

Stanborough, Giselle. “Exact Space, Exact Time: Conversations about Context with David Burns of N.” Das Superpaper (Issue 23): 32-35.

Neil Durbach, Vince Frost, Wendy Lewin, Kerstin Thompson and Gary Warner. Abundant Australia. Barton ACT Australia: Australian Institute of Architects, 2008.

Harding, Laura. “Future Visions.” Architecture Australia (July/August 2008): 47-50.

Neustein, David. “Sydney Future Visions.” Architecture Review Australia. (Issue 105): 30-32.

Timothy McNulty. "Flux still showing its flexibility." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (June 14, 2007).

Rosenblum, Charles. "Two student shows celebrate the possibilities in overlooked materials." City Paper. (May 17, 2007).

Rosenblum, Charles. "Alluring Plans for Pittsburgh." Metropolis (online feature). (March 23, 2007).

Rosenblum, Charles. "Works Like a Charm" The Architect's Newspaper. (March 21, 2007).

Rosenblum, Charles. "A Children's Museum design competition proposes remaking the North Side as a "Charm Bracelet." City Paper. (February 22, 2007).

Timothy McNulty. "Children's Museum displays Charm Bracelet revitalization proposals." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (February 14, 2007).

Jennifer Baron . "Four design teams offer proposals to revitalize North Side." Pop City. (February 14, 2007).

Thomas, Mary. "Partisan Project strikes again." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (October 5, 2006).

“Digital Arts, Where aesthetics and science meet vision.” Carnegie Mellon Today. (February 2006):10-12.

Thomas, Mary. "Art Review: North Side, Downtown shows brim with creativity." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (January 11, 2006).

Jacobs, Karrie. "Warhol's Time Machine." Metropolis. (November 2005).

Thomas, Mary. "Sweeping 'Gestures' brings together powerful images." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (July 18, 2005).

Kneep, Gregory M. "The Work of Art." Pittsburgh City Paper. (June 30, 2005).

Shaw, Kurt. "Site-specific exhibition makes good use of Mattress Factory's fourth floor." Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. (June 23, 2005).

Rosenblum, Charles. "Off the Map - A design boldly goes where no art has gone before: into Pittsburgh streets." City Paper. (January 27, 2005).

Shanley, Mike. "Pulpitations." Pulp Magazine. (January 29, 2004).

Greg Lynn, Hani Rashid, Max Hollein, Mark Taylor. Architectural Laboratories. Rotterdam, Holland: NAi Publishers, 2002.

Rashid, Hani. "Architectural Laboratories with Columbia University, New York." Young Blood, edited by Neil Spinner Architectural Design Volume 71, Number 1 (February 2001): 84-87.

Salangin, Alexander. "Virtual Architecture: from America to Moscow." Four Rooms Number 16 (May 2001): 64-5.

Hall, Peter. "The Rashid Machine." Metropolis (February 2001):41-49.

Arch Moscow: 6th International Exhibition of Architecture, Moscow, Russia, 2001.

Stanton, Michael. "Writhing forms and biomorphs invade Venice for this year's Biennale." Architectural Record (September 2000): 71.

Irace, Fulvio. "Venezia. Architecttura. Biennale." Abitare 397 (July-August 2000): 52-68.

Fuksas, Massimiliano. Less Aesthetics More Ethics: 7th International Architecture Exhibition. Venice, Italy: Marsilio, 2000.

Abstract 99-00, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Member, Standards Australia, Sydney NSW

Professional Member, National Association of the Visual Arts, Sydney NSW

Associate Member, UTS Centre for Contemporary Design Practices

Advisory Panel, Open Agenda, Sydney NSW

External Assessor for Photojournalism, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UTS, Sydney NSW

Final Judge, British Council “Realise Your Dream” Competition, Sydney NSW

External Assessor for Photography Honours, National Art School, Sydney NSW

Studio Artist Residency with Todd McMillan, Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney NSW

Professional Experience Program 6-month paid sabbatical, UTS, Sydney NSW

Studio Artist Residency, Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney NSW

Bronze Medal, NSW State Awards for Excellence in Print, Sydney NSW

Judge’s Choice Award, Digital Media, Pittsburgh AIGA, Andy Warhol Museum Time Capsule 21

Award of Excellence, Pittsburgh AIGA, Andy Warhol Museum Time Capsule 21

Kinne Traveling Fellowship, Columbia University

Bronze Medal Finalist, University of Tennessee

Letter of Excellence Finalist, University of Tennessee

Honors Exchange Program, Politeknika Krakowska, Krakow, Poland

Student Design Competition, First Prize, Society of American Registered Architects