NEW
YORK, April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --
Alan M. Hantman, the 10th Architect
of the U.S. Capitol, returns to his alma mater on May 2 as the 2024 Samuel Rudin Distinguished
Visiting Scholar. His lecture, 5:30
p.m. in CCNY's Great Hall
located in Shepard Hall, is entitled: "Under the Dome: Politics,
Crisis, and Architecture at the United States Capitol," which is
the title of his latest book. Copies of the book will be available
for purchase at the lecture, and Hantman will sign copies
after the lecture.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Click here to
RSVP (no later than April 30).
Hantman was in the first graduating class of what became
CCNY's Bernard
and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. He earned both
Bachelor of Science (1964) and Bachelor of Architecture degrees
(1966) from CCNY, followed by a Masters
in Urban Planning from the Graduate Center,
CUNY in 1979. He currently serves on the Dean's
Advisory Council at the Spitzer School.
A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA), Hantman
was appointed 10th Architect of the U.S. Capitol in 1997 by
President Bill Clinton and
unanimously confirmed to a 10-year term by the U.S. Senate. With a
staff of 2,300, he was entrusted with the operation and
preservation of all buildings and grounds on Capitol Hill, and the
design and construction of the largest addition to the Capitol in
its history.
He led the Architect of the Capitol federal agency, responsible
for all architecture, historic preservation, engineering,
renovation, new construction, and facilities management for the
United States Capitol, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress,
all Congressional office buildings, the Thurgood Marshall
Federal Judiciary Building, the U.S. Botanic Garden, the National
Garden, and the Capitol Power Plant, as well as the care and
improvement of nearly 300 acres of historic Capitol grounds.
Hantman oversaw the planning, design and construction of the
three-story underground expansion of the Capitol, which is the
ninth and largest increment of growth since 1793 when the design
for the Capitol was first selected by President George Washington. This expansion is the most
significant project undertaken by the Office of the Architect of
the Capitol since the Dome and extensions to the Capitol were built
more than 150 years ago. He retired in 2007.
Previous Rudin Scholars have included: former CBS News
anchor Walter Cronkite; former
Congresswoman Patricia S. Schroeder;
author Walter Mosley, '91MA; former
NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw;
filmmaker Ric Burns; Supreme Court
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Nobel
Prize-winning author Mo Yan.
Click here for more information about the Samuel Rudin
Lecture.
For more information, email: events@ccny.cuny.edu.
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