MAKE NO LITTLE PLANS PREMIERES IN CHICAGO
 

JOIN US FOR THE CHICAGO FILM PREMIERE DECEMBER 13th AND 14th
 
Sunday, December 13, 2009 3:00pm CST Gene Siskel Film Center
Monday, December 14, 2009 6:00pm CST Gene Siskel Film Center
 
DON’T MISS THE CHICAGO BROADCAST PREMIERE DECEMBER 17th
 
Thursday, December 17 WTTW Channel 11 Chicago (check local listings)
 
The Archimedia Workshop NFP today announced the theatrical premiere of Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City, a new documentary film about visionary architect and city planner, Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846-1912). The film will premiere at Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center downtown on Sunday, December 13 at 3:00PM CST and again Monday, December 14 at 6:00PM CST. A panel discussion with the producers, Chicago Architecture Foundation leadership, architects, and academics will follow each screening.
 
Tickets to movies are $10 general admission, $7 students, $4 for students and faculty of the School of the Art Institute, and staff of the Art Institute, $5 Film Center members. For more information, call the Gene Siskel Film Center at (312) 846-2800. All ticket levels are available at the Gene Siskel Film Center Box Office, which opens at 5:00pm weekdays and 2:00pm weekends. Only general admission tickets are available through Ticketmaster at (800) 982-2787 or by visiting:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/Make-No-Little-Plans-tickets/artist/1384951?...
 
Make No Little Plans coincides with the major centennial celebration of Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett’s 1909 Plan of Chicago. Burnham, with his partner John Root, built some of the first skyscrapers in the world including such landmarks as the Rookery and Monadnock Buildings in Chicago. His later firm, D.H. Burnham and Company, would be known for such landmarks as the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington, DC. In 1893, Burnham directed construction of the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago that helped inspire the City Beautiful Movement in towns and cities across the country.
 
He subsequently developed plans for major cities in America and abroad including Washington DC, San Francisco, Cleveland and Manila and Baguio City in the Philippines. The 1909 Plan of Chicago co-authored by architect Edward Bennett is considered his masterwork. Classically inspired and often monumental in scale, his work sought to reconcile things often thought opposite: the practical and the ideal, business and art, and capitalism and democracy. At the center of it all was the idea of a vibrant urban community.
 
The Chicago Architecture Foundation’s “Chicago, The Model City” exhibition, which was created for the Burnham celebration, has been so successful it’s been extended to be on exhibition through November of 2010. Learn more here:
http://www.architecture.org/exhibitions.html#b