Arcitecture

When looking for an architect that we have not talked about in class and that I thought would be interesting to learn about, I thought it would be hard. Except when I came across a reading about the Lincoln memorial and who designed it I knew I had whom I wanted to write about for this assignment.

His name is Henry bacon and he designed the Lincoln memorial, he was born in 1822 and is a son to senior Henry. He is also one of seven children in his family. He was born in Watseka Illinois. But he spent much of his childhood in Wilmington North Carolina.

Not knowing where Henry really got the idea to even be an architect specifically I believe, his father, and his brother Francis must have influenced it. By them being surrounded by that I think made him realize what he had an idea of what he want to do. His brother worked on a project that dealt with Greek architecture and that is where I think Henry really found out what he wanted to do but that was not until he had been to college and had been work for a company.

After graduating high school he decided to attend the college of Illinois for a year. Soon after he worked for a company called Chamberlin and whidden that put him self in a position to realize really what he wanted to when he traveled to a few foreign countries and ended up studying Greek architecture like a stated early. After a short time he decided to move to New York. Henry JR. received an offer to work for a prominent firm. The firm was the Mckim, Mead and White. He worked for that company but in the beginning with that company he also was in partnership with a member of the company as well, his name was James Brite. I believe James had a good impact on Henry’s work because he was the first other architect that he worked with and eventually short after Henry went on his own. Henry received many awards for his work in his architecture work in beaux-tradition. The biggest being the gold medal of the institute of architects, this coming from the...