John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Richard Morris Hunt, oil on canvas, 1895. The Biltmore Estate, Asheville, N.C.
The Richard Morris Hunt Prize honors the memory of the first American architect to graduate from Paris’s Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Richard Morris Hunt introduced the Beaux Arts style in the United States and was among the group of thirteen architects who founded the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1857. Hunt was a central figure in the “City Beautiful” mouvement.
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Conçu par Richard Morris Hunt pour Cornelius Vanderbilt
Pour le concours des Beaux Arts de Paris, 7 mars 1849
Administration building designed by Richard Morris Hunt, World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Tribute Building, New York
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