Daniel Burnham Quotes

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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and our grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

Daniel Burnham

The space of time in which a great work can now be accomplished is not marvellous. Brain, muscle, materials, and the means of rapid transport are instantly at command. If one has capital and a well-considered plan, the thing does itself. But that which is wonderful and which I can scarcely believe, although I have been in the midst of it, is the noble, artistic result which has come from the work of American artists who have had only a few months' time to prepare those very designs for the great buildings of the Exposition which have actually been executed with little change from the sketches which were presented in February, 1891.

Daniel Burnham

Daniel Burnham

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Born: September 4, 1846

Died: June 1, 1912 (aged 65)

Bio: Daniel Hudson Burnham was an American architect and urban designer. He was the Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Known for:

Flatiron Building
Reliance Building
Rookery Building
Monadnock Building
Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building

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