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The Christian Science Complex in Boston awarded the Landmark Protection

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Le Christian Science Complex à Boston

Designed by Araldo Cossutta (RMHF Jury Member)

March 25, 2011.

“Mayor Menino Announces Christian Science Church Complex Awarded Landmark Designation by Boston Landmark Commission”. “One of the most prominent and successfull modern urban complex in the world”

Early leaders of preservation district zoning of New Orleans used the term of “Tout ensemble” (Keith Morgan from Boston University).

This term is totally applicable to the Christian Church Complex with its collection of buildings and landscape of historic and architectural significance articulated around a 688 feet long water mirror.
Araldo Cossutta, the design architect comments: “Today it is difficult to imagine the Church Center without its reflecting pool”.

http://www.cityofboston.gov/news/Default.aspx?id=5041

For more information, contact BLC@cityofboston.gov

 

Chicago, 2010

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Meeting in Chicago, under the guidance of Mary Brush (RMHF 2005), the RMHF Alumni  visited the Tiffany Dome, one of her restauration.
Ann Beha, RMHF Jury member comments along the visit of her project of the conversion of the Chicago Theological Seminary at the University of Chicago.
Listened to Pierre-Antoine Gatier who presented a lecture on Le Corbusier, hosted by the Chicago Architecture Foundation. They paid  tribute to the IIT campus buildings by Mies van der Rohe.

2000: the year of the RMHF 10th anniversary!

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Ten Fellows gathered in France to celebrate the program.

This was a response to Fellows’s desire for having an opportunity to learn from each other’s current projects and network wih the new Fellows and to exchange ideas on the problems faced in the architectural field.

Thanks to Didier Repellin (ACMH, IGMH), first days great supporter of the RMHF program and to Pierre-Antoine Gatier (1991 RMH Fellow), the Alumni visited several sites in Paris and Lyon. For instance, l’Opera Garnier or La Tourette, the Le Corbusier convent.
The RMHF Association was created, and the decision of meeting in the future every other year in France and the USA taken.