David Burns is an architect and artist. He creates objects and spaces that manipulate perception through designed indeterminacy. Common to each project is a layering of materials or patterns yielding unexpected results; a simulation of complexity through simple repetition. 

Born in Tennessee in 1972 and educated at Columbia University, MSAAD, 2000, and the University of Tennessee, BArch, 1996; David has worked at leading design offices and institutions in the United States including Asymptote Architecture, the Guggenheim Museum, and Carnegie Mellon University. Since 2001 he has taught at universities in the United States and Australia in schools of design, art and architecture and is currently the Director of Photography and Situated Media at the University of Technology, Sydney. 

Recent exhibitions include "Co-isolated" with Richard Goodwin and Michael Snape, Sydney, 2010; "Triptych 01", Sydney, 2009; the Australian Architecture Association Annual Show, Customs House Sydney, 2009; "Abundant Australia", Australian Pavilion, 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale; and "Architectural Laboratories", American Pavilion, 2000 Venice Architecture Biennale.

In 2010, David co-founded the curatorial collective "N" with frequent collaborators Samantha Spurr and Adrian Lahoud. Recent N projects include "Networks of surrender", the Sydney contribution to the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale and "How to be a good witness", the Australian contribution to the Architecture Section of the 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. 

Curriculum vitae.