The Archimedia Workshop Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Daniel Burnham Film Project

The Archimedia Workshop Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Daniel Burnham Film Project

CHICAGO, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Archimedia Workshop NFP has received a television program grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a documentary about noted Chicago architect Daniel Hudson Burnham, according to Judith Paine McBrien, the documentary's producer.

The $10,000 grant supports consulting by distinguished architecture and history scholars who will advise the production on Burnham's life, work and legacy. The consultants include Carl Smith, Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of American History at Northwestern University; Kristen Schaffer, author of Daniel Burnham: Visionary Architect and Planner and Associate Professor at North Carolina State University; Russell Lewis, Executive Vice President and Chief Historian at the Chicago Historical Society; and Howard Decker, FAIA, Project Director at Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn and formerly Chief Curator of the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. The documentary film is planned for completion in 2007 to inaugurate the centennial celebration of the 1909 Plan of Chicago written by Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett.

"The National Endowment's support will significantly enhance our exploration of Daniel Burnham's contributions in architecture, planning and civic involvement in America," noted McBrien, who wrote Daniel Burnham: the Power of Dreams, for Channel 11/WTTW's Chicago Story series in 2001. Between 1991 and 2001 she produced the five-part series Skyline: Chicago broadcast on WTTW as well as on selected public television stations throughout the United States. McBrien is an adjunct faculty member at The Illinois Institute of Technology.

The Archimedia Workshop NFP specializes in producing programs about architecture, development and urban design.

About Daniel Burnham

Known best in Chicago, Daniel Burnham (1846-1912) directed the building program at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and, with his partner John W. Root, developed some of the world's first skyscrapers. Later, his firm designed such landmarks as the Flatiron Building in New York, Union Station in Washington, D.C. and the Field Museum in Chicago. Burnham also created urban plans including those for Manila in the Philippines, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, which is considered his masterwork.

Source: The Archimedia Workshop NFP

CONTACT: Judith McBrien for The Archimedia Workshop NFP,
+1-312-961-2762, judithmcbrien@aol.com

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