Founded in 1990, the Richard Morris Hunt Prize is awarded annually to architects specialized in historic preservation, alternating each year between French and American practitioners.
An award of excellence, the Prize brings together a network of experts sharing the common mission to study questions relating to the co-habitation of historic and contemporary architecture.
The Prize honors the memory of Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895), the first American architect to graduate from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and founder of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
Lucas Monsaingeon, RMHP Fellow 2016, Associate and Project Manager with the Atelier d’Architecture Philippe Prost (Paris), supervised and directed design and execution at the Cité des Électriciens from 2013 up to its inauguration in 2019 at Bruay-la-Buissière in Pas-de-Calais district of northern France. To discover the overall project on this UNESCO World Heritage site, follow this link .
“Maintain, restore, rebuild a monument: between doctrinal foundation and surgical act”
Lecture to be given October 20, 2019, in the Abbey of Royaumont
Vanessa Fernandez, RMHP Fellow 2010 . Vanessa, who holds a doctorate in architecture, is lecturer at ENSA Paris-Belleville.
