First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 223 pages. A monograph on American architect Daniel H. Burnham who was responsible for the iconic Flatiron Building in New York and numerous other classic buildings in Chicago and many other cities. Edited by Scott J. Tilden. Features text by Kristen Schaffer. Includes photographs by Paul Rocheleau. A clean and tight near fine copy with some slight bumping to the top edge of the front board and in a near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear to the base of the spine. Seller Inventory # 191324

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Title: Daniel H. Burnham: Visionary Architect and ...

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, New York

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

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Containing more than 200 newly commissioned photographs by Rocheleau, this is the first book to explore the career of the influential Chicago architect and planner who shaped the development of the modern skyscraper and founded the City Beautiful movement. Burnham and his firm built more than 200 st

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Kristen Schaffer is a professor of Architectural History at North Carolina State University, whose expertise is nineteenth and twentieth-century American architectural history. She is a leading Burnham scholar.

Scott J. Tilden has served on the board of directors at the Chicago Architecture Foundation and directed the Campaign for the Chicago Historical Society.

Paul Rocheleau has devoted his career to making exquisite images of America's architectural heritage and landscapes. He has been the photographer for numerous books, including Frank Lloyd Wright, the Masterworks.

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