In the history of building, Richard Morris Hunt is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Richard Morris Hunt as American architect (1827–1895).
Richard Morris Hunt was born in 1827. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect and sculptor.
His best-known building is Biltmore Estate. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Legion of Honour and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
That the work was built in United States shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Richard Morris Hunt died in 1895, aged 68. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Biltmore Estate
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
- Trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris
