Hey Y'all, This episode's discussion is all about the man who spearheaded the incredibly impossible achievement of constructing the World's Fair of 1893 in Chicago's Jackson Park.   

This tremendous accomplishment, similar to Brunelleschi's Dome, is an event that nothing like it happened before, and will never happen again.   It's tasteful grandeur and incredible scale due to compounding factors of the recently unseen technological advances of the industrial revolution combined with the need to out do both NYC (a city that should have gotten the fair, and always talked down about Chicago) and Paris, who had blown the world away with the 1889 World's Fair (with its unveiling of the Eiffel Tower) Enjoy!  

Topics Discussed:  Olmstead is the true success of the White City 

The amazing accomplishment of the first Ferris Wheel

 4 Characteristics of a Successful firm 

Cheap Imitators Ruin Architecture 

Is Daniel Burnham more like Roark or Keating? 

Government oversight of the Fair Poor Ole Olmstead has everything set up against him What is the virtue of an exhibition? 

The Olympics are the modern day World's Fair Burnham's sheer force of will 

Compare and Contrasting Brunelleschi and Burnham

Hosts: Montgomery Borg Architectural Designer Los Angeles, California https://www.linkedin.com/in/montgomery-borg-397862169/ https://www.instagram.com/montgomeryborg/

Michel Borg AIA RID LEED AP Licensed Architect Design Director Page/ Dallas, Texas https://www.linkedin.com/in/michel-borg-1470725/

This podcast is based off of the class "The Role of an Architect in Contemporary Society" taught at the University of Texas at Arlington by Michel Borg. The class is structured by reading books and having a discussion of them. If you would like to read along, here's a list of the books below.

Ep1. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Ep2. Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King

Ep3. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Ep4. Architecture's Odd Couple by Hugh Howard

Ep5. Walter Gropius: The Man who Built the Bauhaus by Fiona McCarthy

Ep6. The Fountainhead: Revisited

Ep7. The Architect’s Suicide: A Fictional Account by R. M. Beckley

Ep8. From Bauhaus to Our House  by Tom Wolfe

Ep9. My Beautiful City Austin by David Heymann

Ep10. Four Walls and a Roof by Reinier de Graaf

Ep11. Complexity + Contradiction in Architecture  by Robert Venturi

Ep12. Building Art:  The Life and Work of Frank Gehry  by Paul Goldberger  What should we do after? Drop your book recommendations or topics in the comments