2013 Richard Morris Hunt Fellowship Application Information
Purpose
The Richard Morris Hunt Fellowship is an intensive six-month, $25,000 award for registered architects to pursue research related to contemporary challenges in historic preservation and urban design. The American Architectural Foundation and the French Heritage Society established the Hunt Fellowship in 1990, and it continues to foster and support cross-cultural professional exchange between France and the United States. U.S. design professionals study in France and French design professionals study in the U.S. during alternating years. The Fellowship is underwritten by a generous grant from Lafarge.
Process
Interested Hunt Fellowship candidates should be U.S. citizens, registered architects with 5+ years work experience, able to converse about technical design issues with professionals in French, and have the ability to travel to France for up to six months during 2013. Please submit letters of interest in French and English and your curriculum vitae to Elizabeth Blazevich, U.S. RMHF Program Manager, at [email protected] by June 30, 2012.
In your letter of interest, please identify:
- Your proposed subject of study,
- Your academic and work experiences that prepare you to undertake this Fellowship,
- How you intend to structure your travel and research to maximize the six months of study, and
- How you will apply this international experience to your professional career after the Fellowship.
Review of Applications
Upon receipt of an applicant’s letter of interest, AAF will contact the applicant to arrange a phone interview. Once the phone interview is complete, the applicant may be invited to submit a written proposal, letters of support, and his/her portfolio. The Hunt Jury will consider innovative and thoughtful proposals that meet the intent of the Fellowship. By October 2012, select applicants will be invited to interview with the Hunt Jury in Washington, DC. Interviews will occur November 12, 2012.
For more details regarding the Hunt Fellowship, visit www.rm-hunt-fellowship.org.
Any questions about the application may be directed to:
Elizabeth Blazevich, U.S. RMHF Program Manager, at [email protected].
RMHF Selection Timeline
February – June 2012: Advertisement of Fellowship
June 30, 2012: Deadline for Letters of Interest
October 2012: Applicants Selected and Notified
November 12, 2012: Candidate Interviews with Hunt Jury in Washington, DC
November 2012: Announcement of 2013 Hunt Fellow
Richard Morris Hunt Fellows 1990-2012
1990 John Robbins, AIA, Deputy Administrator, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1991 Pierre-Antoine Gatier, Hon. FAIA, DSA École de Chaillot, Inspecteur Général des Monument Historiques, Architecte en Chef des Monuments Historiques, Paris; Président, ICOMOS France
1992 Bonita J. Mueller, RA, DESCHMA École de Chaillot, PMP, Project Manager/Historical Architect, National Park Service/Denver Service Center/Design and Construction, Denver, Colorado
1993 Jean-Christophe Simon, DSA École de Chaillot, CEHCMA Architecte et Urbaniste en Chef de l’État, Directeur, Direction de la Maitrise d’Ouvrage, Centre des Monuments Nationaux (CMN), Paris
1994 Ruth Todd, FAIA, AICP, LEED AP, Principal, Page + Turnbull, Inc., San Francisco, California
1995 Linda Stevenson, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Stevenson Architects, Inc., Sarasota, Florida
1996 Jérôme Francou, DSA École de Chaillot, Principal, Atelier d’Architecture Jérôme Francou, Lyon
1997 Yves Patrick Deflandre, AIA, Principal, Yves Deflandre Architect, New York, New York
1998 Stéphanie Celle-Riccio, DSA École de Chaillot, Architecte – Urbaniste de l’État, Conservateur, Centre des Monuments Nationaux (CMN), Paris
1999 Elizabeth Newman, AIA, Principal, Elizabeth Newman Architect, Portland, Maine
2000 Stéphanie Zugmayer, DSA École de Chaillot, Liberal – Archeologue, Arles
2001 Raymond Plumey, FAIA, Deputy Borough Commissioner, New York City Department of Buildings, New York, New York
2002 Sabina Fabris, DSA École de Chaillot, Architect, Sabina Fabris, Paris
2003 Kyle R. Brooks, AIA, Preservation Architect/Photographer, U.S. General Service Administration, New York, New York
2004 Pascal Filâtre, DSA École de Chaillot, Tenure Lecturer, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture (ENSA), Nantes; Principal, Atelier d’Architecture Filâtre, Nantes
2005 Mary Brush, AIA, Director of Historic Preservation, Holabird & Root, Chicago, Illinois
2006 Christophe Loustau, DSA École de Chaillot, Chef de Projet Senior, 2BDM Architectes, Paris
2007 Wendy Hillis, AIA, Campus Historic Preservation Architect, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2008 Diego Rodriguez, DSA École de Chaillot, Maître Assistant Associe, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture (ENSA), Nantes; Principal, Atelier d’Architecture Diego Rodriguez, Paris
2009 Tina Roach, AIA, LEED AP, Associate, Quinn Evans | Architects, Washington, DC
2010 Vanessa Fernandez, Assistant Lecturer, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture (ENSA), Toulouse; Research Fellow, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Belleville; Principal, Agence d’Architecture Vanessa Fernandez, Paris
2011 Robert Hotes, AIA, LEED AP, Associate, Klein and Hoffman, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2012 Elsa Ricaud, DSA École de Chaillot, Chef de Projet, Architecte en Chef des Monuments Historiques, Grand Palais, Paris
Recent Hunt Fellowship Recipients
Robert J. Hotes, AIA, LEED AP, is the 2011 Richard Morris Hunt Fellow. Bob is an associate at Klein and Hoffman, Inc., where he focuses on the restoration and rehabilitation of historic buildings for institutional, governmental and other non-profit clients. Prior to his current position, he worked at John Milner Inc. as Senior Associate and for the Philadelphia office of RMJM Hillier, where he was Senior Preservation Architect in the Preservation Architecture Practice Group, bringing with him a wide breadth of award-winning experience in the restoration and rehabilitation of historic structures, as well as the thoughtful design of new buildings and additions.
Bob received a BSE in Architecture and Civil Engineering from Princeton University and a Master of Architecture and Certificate in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1990, he pursued additional training as a US/ICOMOS preservation intern at the Institute Spetsproyectrestavratsiya in Moscow, and as an architectural conservator for a summer program at ICCROM, the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and the Restoration of Cultural Property in Rome.
As the 2011 Richard Morris Hunt Fellow, he intends to study the approaches to “compatibility” and “differentiation” adopted by French architects and historic preservation professionals when dealing with new design in historic contexts, with a particular focus on the new and innovative construction materials and conservation techniques being developed for these circumstances. His study will explore the range of viewpoints in France on the design of additions and new construction in historic contexts, the variety of attitudes toward the pre-existing context (from stylistic continuity to striking contrast), and the various approaches and degrees to which architects and preservation professionals either conform to or challenge the issue of compatibility vs. differentiation.
Vanessa Fernandez, the 2010 Richard Morris Hunt Fellow, received her degree in architecture from the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture in 2004, with a specialization in the interaction between modern architecture preservation, construction history, and sustainable design. Since then, her professional experience has combined architectural practice, teaching, and research. For the past six years, she has worked as a project manager at J. Pierre Pranlas-Descours’ architectural office. She also designed semi-detached house extensions and renovations as a liberal architect.
In 2006, she took an active role in creating the 20th-century architectural and urban heritage preservation training course at the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture (ENSAPB) in DSA Architecture and Heritage, and last year she was appointed Assistant-Lecturer at the Toulouse School of Architecture (ENSAT).
Since March 2008, Vanessa has focused her research on the field of modern architecture conservation/restoration. She was awarded a grant by the Foundation Le Corbusier in July 2008 and began her PhD thesis in the History of Techniques and Environment (Director A. Guillerme). She has been a member of DOCOMOMO France (Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement) since 2002. For her work and research, she has received several awards.
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