The 4th in a series of annual seminars bringing together architecture schools in the Réseau scientifique et thématique d’enseignement et de recherche dans le champ du patrimoine will be held at E NSA Paris-Belleville February 8-10, 2018. This encounter between teachers and researchers gives opportunities for exchange on the theme of education and training both in France and abroad, as well as enhancing the Architecture, Patrimoine et Création network put in place by the French Ministry of Culture in January of this year. Thanks to a partnership with the Richard Morris Hunt Prize , the event will specifically highlight the United States as this year’s focus country. Three American architects as well as a number of French RMHP Fellows and Scholars will be in attendance for debates and presentations over the course of these three days.
With the support of the American Embassy in Paris
Jean-Christophe Simon , RMHP Fellow 1993, Architecte et Urbaniste en Chef de l’État, Inspecteur Général des Patrimoines with the French Ministry of Culture (Collège des Monuments Historiques), has just been selected as a new board member at ICOMOS International. A specialist in Cambodian restoration problems, Simon has been invited by that country’s government to conduct training for its preservation supervisors.
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).
