Chicago, 2010

Posted on 27 September 2010 by rmhprize

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!

Posted on 27 May 2010 by rmhprize

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.

The late great Charles Schwab mansion

Posted on 15 April 2010 by rmhprize

Article published in the New York Times on July 8th 2010
by Christopher Gray

Riverside Drive with Schwab mansion in 1915. Credit Office for Metropolitan History

09-Mise en bouteille cachetée numérotée

ALMOST everyone in New York knows the Frick Collection, at Fifth Avenue and 70th Street, and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, at Fifth and 91st, the pair of stupendous mansions built by the steel titans Henry Clay Frick and Andrew Carnegie. But their architectural majesty was only two-thirds of a ferric triad, the last the house of Charles M. Schwab, the Carnegie protégé who became the head of United States Steel and then Bethlehem Steel.

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Paris – Angers, 2008

Posted on 12 June 2008 by rmhprize

The meetings are on the planned 2-years intervals, this year in France, with visits guided by Pascal Filâtre (RMHF 2004) and by Hubert du Pontavice, regional Delegué of the Vieilles Maisons Francaises, centering on the City of Angers and including the Abbey of Toussaint with its David d’Angers Gallery, then, in Paris, visits including the newly restored Museum of Decorative Arts with the architects Daniel Kahane and Diego Rodriguez (RMHF 2008).

Washington DC, 2006

Posted on 27 April 2006 by rmhprize

The first meeting of the Alumni in the United States, with visits to the worksite of Montpelier, the James Madison estate in Virginia and the Washington cathedral.