The Legacy of Daniel Burnham: Architect and City Planner

SAH is preparing to host an exciting three-day summer Study Tour to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago. An array of lectures, tours, and special evening events will highlight Burnham and the plan in a variety of different guises: imagined and realized, proposed and enacted, seen and unseen. Leading scholars and experts Kristen Schaffer, Dennis McClendon, Sally A. Kitt Chappell, Carl Smith, and Robert Bruegmann will provide lectures, tours, and commentary during the course of the three-day event. Their presence not only ensures thoughtful and analytical approaches, but promises some of the more recent and provocative interpretations of the 1909 plan and its significance. Daily lectures will be held at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood, with guided tours to follow, either on foot or by motor coach. For additional information visit the study tour section of the SAH website, http://www.sah.org.