Initiated in 1906 and published in 1909, Burnham and his co-author Edward H. Bennett prepared “The Plan of Chicago”, which laid out plans for the future of the city. It was the first comprehensive plan for the controlled growth of an American city, and an outgrowth of the City Beautiful movement. The plan included ambitious proposals for the lakefront and river and declared that every citizen should be within walking distance of a park. City planning projects did not stop at Chicago though. Burnham had previously contributed to plans for cities such as Cleveland (the 1903 Group Plan), San Francisco (1905), and Manila (1905) and Baguio in the Philippines, details of which appear in “The Chicago Plan” publication of 1909. In Washington, D.C., Burnham did much to shape the 1901 McMillan Plan, which led to the completion of the overall design of the National Mall.

1. Daniel Burnham
By Ben Shipp

2. About Daniel Burnham
 Daniel Hudson Burnham was born Sep. 4
1846 in Henderson, New York
 He died June 1, 1912 in Heidelberg,
Germany
 He tried to get into Harvard and Yale but
failed the admission tests for both
 He was raised in Chicago, Illinois
 He met John Root when he was 26

3. Buildings He Designed
 Union Station in Washington D.C.(1908)
 The Fuller Building(1902)
 The Masonic Temple Building(1892-1939)
 And many more. He designed 30 buildings
in his life.

4. The Fuller Building(1902)
 The Fuller Building (now called the Flatiron
building) was the first skyscraper ever.
 It was 22 stories tall.
 It was the tallest building in the world until 1913.
 An Italian architecture firm plans to by it and turn
it into a hotel in 2019.
 It inspired the famous building The Het Strijkijzer.
 It is in the Flatiron district in New York.

5. The Flatiron Building
Cylinders
Face
The Flatiron
District
Edge
Parallel and perpendicular lines
Triangle
Acute
angle

6. The Masonic Temple
Building(1892-1933
>The Masonic Temple Building was Burnham’s first building.
>John Wellborn Root helped him.
>It was constructed from 1891-1892.
>Joffrey tower is currently there.

7. cylinders
Arches
triangles
Rectangular
prism

8. Union Station
 Opened in 1908
 Cost $125 Million dollars to build.
 Employed 5,000 people
 In 1988 it had been abandoned and sealed
for 7 years when it was renovated.
 Since then it has been used as many
different things.

9. Columns
Vertex

10. Quotes
 Make big plans; aim high in hope and work,
remembering that a noble, logical diagram
once recorded will not die-Daniel Burnham
 Make no little plans, They have no magic to
stir men’s blood-Daniel Burnham

11. Bibliography
 http://www.unionstationdc.com/history.aspx
 http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/a
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Burnham
 http://www.skyscraper.org/TALLEST_TOWE