Former Architect of the U.S. Capitol Alan Hantman presents CCNY’s Rudin Lecture, May 2

NEW YORK, April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Alan M. Hantman, the tenth Architect of the U.S. Capitol, returns to his alma mater on Might 2 because the 2024 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar. His lecture, 5:30 p.m. in CCNY’s Nice Corridor situated in Shepard Corridor, is entitled: “Below the Dome: Politics, Disaster, and Structure at the USA Capitol,” which is the title of his newest guide. Copies of the guide might be accessible for buy on the lecture, and Hantman will signal copies after the lecture.

The lecture is free and open to the general public. Click on right here to RSVP (no later than April 30).

Hantman was within the first graduating class of what turned CCNY’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer Faculty of Structure. He earned each Bachelor of Science (1964) and Bachelor of Structure levels (1966) from CCNY, adopted by a Masters in City Planning from the Graduate Middle, CUNY in 1979. He  at the moment serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council on the Spitzer Faculty.

A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA), Hantman was appointed tenth Architect of the U.S. Capitol in 1997 by President Invoice Clinton and unanimously confirmed to a 10-year time period by the U.S. Senate. With a employees of two,300, he was entrusted with the operation and preservation of all buildings and grounds on Capitol Hill, and the design and building of the biggest addition to the Capitol in its historical past.

He led the Architect of the Capitol federal company, accountable for all structure, historic preservation, engineering, renovation, new building, and amenities administration for the USA Capitol, the Supreme Courtroom, the Library of Congress, all Congressional workplace buildings, the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Constructing, the U.S. Botanic Backyard, the Nationwide Backyard, and the Capitol Energy Plant, in addition to the care and enchancment of practically 300 acres of historic Capitol grounds.

Hantman oversaw the planning, design and building of the three-story underground growth of the Capitol, which is the ninth and largest increment of development since 1793 when the design for the Capitol was first chosen by President George Washington. This growth is essentially the most vital mission undertaken by the Workplace of the Architect of the Capitol for the reason that Dome and extensions to the Capitol had been constructed greater than 150 years in the past. He retired in 2007.

Earlier Rudin Students have included: former CBS Information anchor Walter Cronkite; former Congresswoman Patricia S. Schroeder; creator Walter Mosley, ’91MA; former NBC Information anchor Tom Brokaw; filmmaker Ric Burns; Supreme Courtroom Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Nobel Prize-winning creator Mo Yan.

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SOURCE Metropolis Faculty of New York, Workplace of Institutional Development and Communications