What does it take to rebuild one of the most visited, recognizable, and semantically loaded works of architecture in the world? Presented in partnership with the Catholic University of America, Philippe Villeneuve, Chief Architect of Historic Monuments in charge of Notre-Dame de Paris, and Rémi Fromont, Chief Architect of Historic Monuments, will deliver their first public lecture in the United States since taking on the extraordinary task to stabilize and restore the cathedral of Paris in the aftermath of the catastrophic 2019 fire. Lindsay Cook, Assistant Teaching Professor of Architectural History at the Pennsylvania State University and translator of the book Notre Dame Cathedral: Nine Centuries of History, will translate the lecture from French into English and moderate the discussion following the talk.