Announcing a Giant Leap Forward

Posted on 16 December 2016 by rmhprize

Richard Morris Hunt Prize Final Reports Coming Online

Today we make an important advance in the development of the Richard Morris Hunt Prize by making accessible the research of our Fellows and Scholars.
This was made possible by a generous donation from the Sondra & Charles Gilman Foundation.

″It is our pleasure to be able to help the distribution through this website of such an important achievement in architectural research that cements the friendship between the French and American architects. Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzales-Falla

The Final Reports are one of the tangible results of the work accomplished by our Fellows and Scholars. The Hunt Prize has the ambition of becoming a source of richness for the architectural profession.

We are pleased to announce the online publication of the Final Report produced by our first Scholar, the French architect Isabelle Michard, Architecte et Urbaniste de l’Etat, Architecte des Bâtiments de France, Cheffe du Service Territorial de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (STAP) de Seine et Marne. Isabelle produced her report in 2012.

As remarked Mireille Grubert, Director of the Ecole de Chaillot, “The richness of the experiences exchanged between the two countries, which we often discuss in a theoretical way, are given concrete expression thanks to Isabelle Michard and the Richard Morris Hunt Prize. Her topic of research, Re-Use of Former Industrial Sites in the United States, combines aspects of urban planning, landscape, and economy to bring attention to industrial wastelands, a subject still poorly understood.”

Click here to access Isabelle Michard’s Final Report

Congratulations and Welcome

Posted on 12 December 2016 by rmhprize

2017 Richard Morris Hunt Prize Laureates Chosen in Washington

Beth Jacob, (AIA, NCARB, LEED, AP BD+C) of New Orleans, was selected as the 27th Hunt Prize Fellow by the annual Jury assembled at AAF headquarters in Washington, D.C., on December 1st.

Co-Founder and Principal at CLIO Associates LLC, New Orleans, Jacob also serves as adjunct lecturer in Preservation Studies at the Tulane University School of Architecture. Her research topic, preliminarily entitled “Public Markets as Catalyst for Urban Revitalization”, will be pursued over six months of research in France during 2017.

Also selected in Washington, the 4th Hunt Prize Scholar is Constance Lai (AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, BD + C, USACE CQM-C). Lai plans to study the subject of “Defining Quality from Design to Construction” during her five weeks of research travels in France. She currently works as Manager of Historic Preservation Services at Grunley Construction Company in Rockville, Maryland.

Beth Jacob holds master’s degrees in Architecture (University of California at Berkeley) and in Preservation Studies (Tulane University). Her undergraduate studies began at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, in the field of Education and Social Policy. Constance Lai earned a bachelor’s degree in Architecture at Rice University (Houston) before going on to pursue an M.S. in Architecture at MIT.

To read the AAF’s full press release, click here.

Talking about concrete: Philippe Prost at the Palais d’Iéna

Posted on 27 September 2016 by rmhprize

Beauty of concrete’s classical age

Beauty of avant-garde concrete

During this September’s European Heritage Days, the Palais d’Iéna opens wide its doors. Philippe Prost, magician of concrete, presents this monument, one of the most remarkable examples from the classical age of concrete, which today houses the Conseil Economique et Social.

In 1936, the architect August Perret (1874-1954) made use of all the technical and esthetic potential of reinforced concrete, creating a new architectural order able to rival with Antiquity. For Iéna, he designed the luminous colonnade of the Salle Hypostyle, marrying oak and concrete, as well as the famous stand-alone staircase with its railing by Raymond Subies, its double flights lilting upward in the form of a horseshoe. A daring, unapologetic use of raw concrete. Continue reading →

Retrouvailles de Printemps en Provence : RMHP Bi-Annual Reunion 2016

Posted on 1 July 2016 by rmhprize

Photo Kyle R. Brooks

From Architectural Heritage to Contemporary Architecture: The Past Meets the Present

The Richard Morris Hunt Prize Fellows and Scholars gathered in Nîmes for their bi-annual reunion. The program was orchestrated by Laurent Duport, RMHP Fellow 2014, C+D Architecture and lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier. Participants were received by both local officials and private hosts. Continue reading →

New Research on Ancient Domestic Architecture Presented in Athens

Posted on 20 June 2016 by rmhprize

House of Fourni, Délos (Greece), general view. 1st century B.C.

House of Fourni, Delos (Greece), 1st century B.C. General view

Stéphanie Zugmeyer, 2010 Hunt Prize Fellow and now a full-time archeologist based in Arles, participated in this Spring’s antiquities cycle organized by The CIRCLE, an Athens research forum. Zugmeyer presented an “Architectural Analysis and Interpretation of the Maison de Fourni in Delos” alongside colleague Hélène Wormser (Professor of Archeology, Université de Lyon-2) on May 10th at Greece’s National Technical University. Click here for the full program.

Highlighted during the conferences were the mosaics of the Fourni house (1st century B.C.) recently restored by the studios of France’s Musée de l’Arles Antique.

Zugmeyer is a CNRS research professional who works with the Institut de Recherche en Architecture Antique. In June, INRAA co-organized Over the Cloud, an innovative workshop on archeology and architecture in the digital age held in Aix-en-Provence.