Taylor & Burns Architects is a full-service architecture firm based in Boston. We specialize in working with mission-driven groups who want to change the built environment as a means to reach their next level of excellence.

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Having founded the firm in 1993 as hands-on principals, Robert Taylor & Carol Burns personally lead each project from inception to final close-out, directing a design process that is inclusive, rigorous, and creative. Our focused agile firm brings technical prowess through strategic alliance with large engineering firms and other design professionals to deliver complex well-designed projects.

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Architecture is the art of constructing meaningful buildings and places within practical limits. We design structures that express ideas and values that resonate with the groups they shelter. People for whom we design are represented in buildings alive with ideas about their culture and community, built to be accessible, durable, resourceful and sustainable.

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 We make buildings that connect to the natural and cultural character of New England. Our climate is temperate, winters hard, and buildings here must perform within tight footprints and efficient envelopes, outfitted with transitional layers to expand when good weather beckons. Spaces surrounding buildings are as important as the buildings themselves.

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 As New England architects we feel a duty to steward, renew and reimagine legacy places – old buildings and long-settled sites – and infuse them with new life. We embrace the language, scale, and character of New England architecture. Reuse and redevelopment requires a special skillset and mindset: vision to see potential in old bones; humility to learn from old places and the people who know them; creativity to imagine and innovate change that fits and also transforms; and technical know-how to pilot through change. Much of our work stewards the grit and beauty in the traditions of this region, rejuvenating with civility and respect, yearning to make what’s old new again.

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We aspire to make beautiful architecture, which can arise when ideas true to their place and accessible to all are transformed into material form and space, with such care for detail and proportion as to inspire the people and activity sheltered therein. We engage each project through inquiry and investigation. Methodical searching and researching lead to discovery and innovation. Design is physical and spatial problem-solving with an eye for the elegant solution. Our fundamental service is fresh ideas and the expertise to transform them into buildings. Architecture is a visual, material and practical art, and we express our ideas in those terms.

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