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The University of Notre Dame is proud to announce the 2011 Richard H. Driehaus Award:

Robert A.M. Stern, whose influential designs have revitalized traditional architecture, has been named the 2011 recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. Stern will receive $200,000 and a bronze model of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates during a March 26 ceremony in Chicago.

As Founder and Senior Partner of Robert A. M. Stern Architects, and as Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, Stern has built a reputation as a modern traditionalist architect. In his work as an architect, as a scholar, and as a teacher, he is dedicated to reconnecting the present and future with the past, building upon what went before to extend the trajectory of architecture.

Stern's work as an architect is rooted in the principles, values, and ideals of classicism and traditional architecture. Comcast Center, a prismatic glass curtainwall office tower in Philadelphia carries forward the proportions of the classical obelisk; the acclaimed residential tower 15 Central Park West recaptures the spirit of New York's great pre-war apartment houses; the influential plan for Celebration, Florida, is grounded on a decades-long study of traditional town planning. His current projects include the design of the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and two new residential colleges in the Gothic mode at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. In his writings and in his long and distinguished teaching career, he has reopened the discourse between the new and what went before. He is a committed preservationist and has done much to raise public awareness of the importance of architecture to contemporary life.

Henry Hope Reed Award laureate Robert A. Peck, now serving for the second time as the General Service Administration’s Commissioner of Public Buildings, has had a distinguished career in public service that includes positions at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the staff of the U.S. Senate. A past president of the D.C. Preservation League and a former appointee to the District of Columbia's Board of Education and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, Peck also served as a Special Forces officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. In 2000, the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan called Peck “a public servant of unexampled ability and achievement.” Peck received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. He was a Visiting Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

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 Driehaus Prize, the 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 (David M. Schwarz Architects, Inc.), Adele Chatfield-Taylor (President of the American Academy in Rome), and Léon Krier (Inaugural Driehaus Prize Laureate).

New York Times

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/stern-wins-driehaus-prize-for-classical-architecture/

Chicago Tribune

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2010/12/the-pluralist-robert-am-stern-his-portfolio-a-stylistic-smorgasbord-wins-the-driehaus-prize-for-clas.html#tp

Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703727804576017910338826014.html?mod=djkeyword

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Jennifer Parker

Architecture Librarian

Hesburgh Libraries

University of Notre Dame

School of Architecture

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Notre Dame, IN 46556

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