Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root
John Wellborn Root was born in Lumpkin, Georgia on January 10, 1850. After a brief life as both a successful architect and writer, he died in Chicago Illinois on January 15, 1891. Root first went to school in Atlanta, Georgia, then near Liverpool in England at Clare Mount School. He graduated in 1869 from New York University where he was educated as a civil engineer. At Renwick & Sands, an architectural firm in New York, Root was apprenticed for a year, then worked for another New York based architectural firm, John Butler Snook, who was then building the vast Grand Central Station for Cornelius Vanderbilt (Zanten, "Root" 137). Following the disastrous fire of 1871, Root moved to Chicago in January 1872 to become a potential partner and head draughtsman with Peter Bonnett Wight who had formed a partnership with William H. Drake and Asher Carter. Soon after, Daniel Burnham entered Wight's office. "It was in Mr. Wight's office," records Mr. Burnham, "that I first became acquainted with John Wellborn Root, with whom I at once formed an acquaintance which lasted until the end of his life" (Moore, 17). Burnham and Root set up Burnham and Root in 1873, with Root as the designer and Burnham the businessman
Along with a wall composition closely resembling that of H. However, the Brooks brothers rejected this plan seeing as they distrusted the steel structure because of the possibility for corrosion, and the ornamented elevations were thought to be too expensive for a speculative building (Robison, 927). The design for the Monadnock Building was almost the complete opposite of that of the Rookery Building. Their us of Romanesque style is still evident. His influence dominated for ten or fifteen years throughout North America. Long before Frank Lloyd Wright would assert to have discovered "organic architecture," Root urged that architects "continually return to nature and nature's methods. (The floors themselves, however, carry steel beams. Originally lighted by bronze fixtures, terra-cotta panels carried the street names at the corners of the buildings (Slaton, 83). To make the structure visually appealing, Root used inviting "relief work in the terra-cotta surfaces and the varying textures of the granite and brickwork" (figure 2) (Slaton, 83). The Monadnock Building, unlike almost all historical precedents, is considered a lesson in unified design. The restrictions caused by the total weight and mass of a solid masonry structure was rapidly becoming clear to Root (Roth, 748). Root knew that like Lower Egypt, Chicago was a place where a river ran into a large body of water.
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