Bert McClure

Bert McClure (Arch ’66 CM) has been received as a member of the French Académie d’Architecture, a professional society that promotes the quality and teaching of architecture and spatial design. Over the past 50 years, Mr. McClure’s career has encompassed a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard (1978) and 45 years as an architect, urban planner and journalist based principally in France with international projects in the Middle East, Morocco and China. Notable publications include six architectural walking guides for the Paris newspaper Le Monde, an urban walking guide with Lille Metropolis, and a visitors’ guide to eight Le Corbusier projects for a major Centre Pompidou exhibition. After 30 years living aboard a 90-foot converted Dutch river barge, Mr. McClure and his wife, Bonnie, recently washed ashore in the Paris region.