ith the newer architectural entrepreneur and business executive" (Hines, "Burnham of Chicago" 24).
             Daniel Hudson Burnham was born on September 4, 1846 in Henderson, New York. He died in Heidelberg, Germany on June 1, 1912. Burnham was considered an American architect, urban planner and writer. Burnham, "the most active and successful architect, urban planner and organizer in the years around 1900", with his partner John Wellborn Root, shaped a series of unique and innovative early skyscrapers in Chicago during the 1880s (Zanten, "Burnham" 272). Under Burnham's direction, the large office staff and efficient organization became a prototype for all great modern architectural firms (Hines, "Burnham of Chicago" 24). Burnham's urban plans for cities such as Washington, DC, and Chicago played a vital role in the creation of epic city centres with a large emphasis on parks.
             Burnham's reputable New England family moved to Chicago in 1854. His father's ambition for his son sent young Burnham for tutoring and to a preparatory school in Waltham, Massachusetts. He would fail the entrance examinations for both Harvard University and Yale University prior to returning to Chicago in 1867 where his father briefly got him a job in the office of William Le Baron Jenney, an engineer and architect. After two unrewarding years in the West trying his hand at silver speculation and gold prospecting, he worked for other Chicago based architects. In 1872 his father offered him to Peter Bonnett Wight of Carter, Drake & Wight (Zanten, "Burnham" 273). It was at Carter, Drake & Wight that Burnham met chief draughtsman Root. In 1873 they set up their own firm of Burnham and Root. Despite being so unlike in all their characteristics, the two men became firmly attached to one another (Moore, 17).
             At first, the duo only received house commissions, the first being that in ...