In Burnham's later buildings, such as the towering Flatiron Building in New York City, the steel frame was hidden by traditional beaux-arts facing. ... After studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he spent a year in Paris at the École Des Beaux-Arts and in the office of a French architect. ... Concerned with fine arts and beauty as well as being a working architect, he 7 expressed his ideas in lectures and writings, including the classic Autobiography of an Idea. ...

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