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Spanish architect Rafael Manzano Martos named 2010
Richard H. Driehaus Prize laureate
Henry Hope Reed Award honors legendary Yale professor Vincent J. Scully
January 14, 2010 --- Rafael Manzano Martos, a Spanish architect known for his
distinctive use of the Mudéjar style, will receive the 2010 Richard H. Driehaus
Prize for Classical Architecture at a ceremony March 27th in Chicago. The $200,000 Driehaus
Prize, presented annually to a distinguished classical architect, represents
the largest recognition of classicism in the contemporary built environment. In
conjunction with the Driehaus Prize, legendary Yale professor and
preservationist Vincent J. Scully will receive the $50,000 Henry Hope Reed
Award.
Manzano's work spans cultures. Mudéjar emerged as a style blending Muslim and
Christian influences in the 12th century on the Iberian Peninsula. With
expertise in this style and a command of the Western and Islamic vernaculars,
Manzano has designed hotels and other commercial buildings, along with homes
and residential complexes throughout Spain and the Middle East. His best-known
work includes state homes for Chueca Goitia in Seville and Curro Romero in
Marbella (now a Julio Iglasias property). His fluency in Islamic style is
evident in his designs for a hotel in Mosul, Iraq, and a hotel resort and
shopping district in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A manor house for Faisal Hassan
Jawal in Bahrain is currently under construction.
Born in Cádiz, Spain, on November 6, 1936, Manzano received his PhD from the
Architecture School of Madrid in 1963. His career has included building
restoration, urban planning, and teaching, in addition to his architectural
work. From 1970 to 1991, Manzano served as the Director-Curator and Governor of
the Alcázar of Seville, a royal palace. Originally a Moorish fort, the Alcázar
is one of the best remaining examples of Mudéjar architecture. While in this
role, Manzano restored the al-Muwarak Domestic Palace, the residence of
al-Mutamid in Seville, on the premises of the Casa de la Contratación (House of
Trade). The Casa, which dealt with legal disputes on trade with the Americas,
includes a chapel where Christopher Columbus met with Ferdinand and Isabella
after his second voyage. Today Manzano teaches at the Seville Superior
Technical School of Architecture.
Henry Hope Reed Award laureate Vincent J. Scully enrolled at Yale at 16,
beginning an association that has endured for more than 70 years. Scully,
Yale's Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, has become a
University icon. One of its most popular and influential lecturers, Scully is a
champion of architectural preservation. Since the "urban renewal"
efforts of the 1960s and 70s, he has condemned sprawl and advocated livable and
sustainable urban design. The author of more than 20 books, Scully is a trustee
emeritus of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a recipient of the
National Medal of Arts, the highest honor the U.S. bestows on artists and
patrons.
Established in 2003 through the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture,
the Richard H. Driehaus Prize honors the best practitioners of traditional,
classical and sustainable architecture and urbanism in the modern world. The
Henry Hope Reed Award recognizes achievement in the promotion and preservation
of those ideals among people who work outside the architecture field. Together,
with the $200,000 Driehaus Prize, the $50,000 Reed Award represents the most
significant recognition for classicism in the contemporary built environment.
Recipients were selected by a jury comprised of Richard H. Driehaus (Founder
and Chairman of Driehaus Capital Management), Michael Lykoudis (Francis and
Kathleen Rooney Dean of the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture),
Robert Davis (Developer and Founder of Seaside, Florida), Paul Goldberger
(Architecture Critic for The New Yorker), David M. Schwarz (Principal of
David M. Schwarz/Architectural Services, Inc), Adele Chatfield-Taylor
(President of the American Academy in Rome), and Léon Krier (Inaugural Driehaus
Prize Laureate).
For more information on the Driehaus Prize please visit www.architecture.nd.edu/driehausprize.
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