By Geoffrey Johnson

Originally quoted from: http://www.chicagomag.com/Radar/Coda/April-2008/The-Year-of-Burnham-Begi...

A few playful catcalls greeted the architect Louis Sullivan last week at the Union League Club. Actually it was a photo of Sullivan flashed on a movie screen, a preview of an upcoming documentary by the Chicago filmmaker Judith McBrien about the architect and city planner Daniel Hudson Burnham. The movie, called Make No Little Plans, is slated to premiere next year in Millennium Park, part of a summer-long centennial salute to Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago. You can see the film's trailer here.

Places: City buildings play role in movie on architect
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette

The "Pittsburg" leg of the Penn Station rotunda of 1900, when the city's name was spelled without the "H."

Was Chicago architect Daniel Burnham a visionary space planner who brought order, clarity and monumentality to American cities? Or did he, as Louis Sullivan suggested, set architecture back 50 years with his unflagging promotion of classicism, just when the dawning skyscraper promised new opportunities for structural expression?