Pioneering alumnae from the University of 91łÔąĎ will gather Friday and Saturday (April 5 and 6) for “Beyond the Drafting Board: 40 Years of Women in Architecture at 91łÔąĎ,” a reunion-symposium celebrating four decades of coeducation at the .

A reception and book signing featuring Marianne Cusato, a 1997 graduate and author of “The Just Right Home,” will be held at 5 p.m. Friday in the Bond Hall gallery. Local architects, alumni and friends are encouraged to attend.

Martha Lampkin Welborne, a 1975 91łÔąĎ graduate and executive director of Countywide Planning, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Association, will deliver the keynote address at 4:30 p.m. Friday in the Bond Hall Auditorium. Welborne’s work has ranged from individual building design to large-scale projects such as the Los Angeles surface transit project, which led to the creation of the countywide Metro Rapid bus system.

The , under the guidance of Professor Aimee Buccellato, is sponsoring the symposium.

The University of 91łÔąĎ’s and the will host the lecture “Building,” by Jeanne Gang, founder and principal of , at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday (Feb. 20) in the Bond Hall Auditorium.

Gang roots her designs in both architectural form and idea-driven content toward achieving a compelling whole, and she often arrives at design solutions through investigations and collaborations across disciplines. Her projects include Chicago’s 82-story Aqua tower, the 2009 Emporis Skyscraper of the Year; the design of Northerly Island Park, a 91-acre former airfield on Chicago’s lakefront that is now under construction; and the Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo, an educational pavilion and landscape that also function as stormwater infrastructure.

Since founding Studio Gang in 1997, Gang has won numerous honors, among them a , an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and an Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York. In 2009, she was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Her work with Studio Gang has been published and exhibited widely, most notably at the International Venice Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art and the National Building Museum.

A distinguished graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gang has taught at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the Illinois Institute of Technology, where her studios have focused on cities, ecologies, materials and technologies. “,” her first book on Studio Gang’s work and working process, was released in 2011. Her firm’s first solo exhibition, “,” is open through Feb. 24 (Sunday) at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Thomas H. Beeby, an innovative architect celebrated for an array of cultural, academic, religious, residential and commercial buildings, has been named the recipient of the 2013 at the University of 91łÔąĎ. Beeby, the 11th Driehaus Prize laureate, will receive $200,000 and a bronze miniature of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates during a March 23 ceremony in Chicago.

Chairman emeritus of HBRA Architects Inc., formerly Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge Architects, Beeby spent over 40 years as the firm’s director of design, leading projects such as the Baker Institute at Rice University, Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, the Bass Library at Yale University, and the United States Federal Building and Courthouse in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Seven of Beeby’s projects have received the National Honor Award, the highest design distinction, from the American Institute of Architects, including the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for Paul Newman in Ashford, Conn., the Rice Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the master plan for Paternoster Square in London with John Simpson and Terry Farrell. Progressive Architecture cited three of Beeby’s public library designs, including the Sulzer Regional Library and the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago.

As one of the “Chicago Seven” architects who rejected modernist influences in the 1970s and 1980s, Beeby helped bring traditional architecture and urban design back into the public consciousness. Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin, reflecting on the group’s influence in 2005, commended the “critical spirit that helped the Chicago Seven alter the course of the city’s architecture.”

An Oak Park, Ill., native, Beeby received a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Cornell University in 1964 and a master’s degree from Yale in 1965. In 1971, Beeby and Jim Hammond founded Hammond Beeby & Associates (now HBRA). After teaching for more than a decade the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois, Chicago, he served from 1985 to 1991 as dean of the Yale School of Architecture, where he remains an adjunct professor. Beeby was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 1991.

Established in 2003 through the 91łÔąĎ , the Richard H. Driehaus Prize honors lifetime contributions to traditional, classical and sustainable architecture and urbanism in the modern world. The Driehaus Prize represents the most significant recognition for classicism in the contemporary built environment.

Recipients are selected by a jury comprising Adele Chatfield-Taylor, president of the American Academy in Rome; Robert Davis, developer and founder of Seaside, Fla.; Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic and writer for Vanity Fair; LĂ©on Krier, inaugural Driehaus Prize laureate; , Francis and Kathleen Rooney Dean of the University of 91łÔąĎ School of Architecture; Demetri Porphyrios, architect, author and 2004 Driehaus Prize Laureate; and Witold Rybczynski, Meyerson Professor Emeritus of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania.

Architect and designer Michael Graves, who received the at the University of 91łÔąĎ, will lecture at the at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 28 (Wednesday) in the Bond Hall Auditorium.

Graves, whose celebrated career redefined the architect’s role in society, received the $200,000 Driehaus Prize and a bronze miniature of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates during a March ceremony in Chicago.

His lecture, “A Grand Tour,” will recount a professional journey once considered obligatory for a young architect — exploring the great monuments of Europe. Receiving the Rome Prize in 1960 as a scholar at the American Academy in Rome, where he is now a trustee, Graves experienced the “timeless grammar” of architecture that has influenced his own work. Members of the Driehaus Prize jury commended his commitment to the traditional city — in its human scale, complexity and vitality — as emblematic of a time-tested sustainability.

Graves is founding principal of the firm Michael Graves & Associates and the Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture, Emeritus at Princeton University. In structures such as the Portland (Ore.) Public Services Building and Humana Corporation headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, Graves’s designs are characterized for their attention to detail and dignity. His concern for the character of his buildings extends to his interior design, the lighting, fixtures and furniture that he regards as essential to the overall character he aspires to create.

His influential designs, extending from buildings including the iconic Denver Central Library to everyday objects such as his celebrated Alessi teakettle, reflect the breadth of his interests and the depth of his humanistic instincts. Attention to enhancing the user experience characterizes all his work, from luxury goods to products for Target Stores. The beauty and quality of ordinary objects, Graves believes, have the power to stir the soul.

Established in 2003, the at the University of 91łÔąĎ, the most significant recognition for classicism in the contemporary built environment, honors a practicing architect for lifetime contributions to traditional, classical and sustainable architecture and urbanism.

, accepted The Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of 91łÔąĎ Patronage Award during a ceremony Jan. 27 at St. James’s Palace in London.

The Prince is a forceful advocate for the maintenance of traditional building skills and sustainable urban design and is keenly interested in how the built environment affects the quality of people’s lives. , a charity established personally by His Royal Highness, has led building and planning efforts in more than 62 communities in the United Kingdom along with the United States, Africa and Asia.

He received a bronze miniature of the Tower of the Winds and donated the $150,000 prize to his foundation to establish an undergraduate diploma course in sustainability and the building arts, as part of the charity’s building-skill program. “It is an element of education that I’ve long been desperate for my foundation to reintroduce,” Prince Charles said at the ceremony, “and I’m thrilled that, thanks to the incredible kindness of the , it will be able to do so.”

The Prince of Wales’ efforts to create more sustainable and liveable communities, with an emphasis on putting people’s needs at the center of the building and urban design process, dates back more than two decades. On land owned by the Duchy of Cornwall in southern England, the Prince established the town of Poundbury in the early 1990s based on a master plan by architect and inaugural laureate . Poundbury is a New Urbanist town notable for its high-density, mixed-use development, including homes and businesses built with traditional methods and sustainable local materials, including the market hall designed by British architect John Simpson.

The Patronage Award is the first of its kind presented through the , now in its 10th year. The Patronage Award is a one-time honor to recognize the Prince’s tireless commitment to traditional architecture and sustainable urban design.

“Prince Charles has put the ideals of traditional architecture and urban design into practice around the world,” said , the Francis and Kathleen Rooney Dean of the University of 91łÔąĎ , who presented the award along with Richard H. Driehaus. “The inspiring results — from Haiti to the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, from China to the Galapagos Islands — illuminate the power of those ideals to create a more vibrant, beautiful and sustainable built environment.”

Michael Graves, whose celebrated career redefined the architect’s role in society, has been named the recipient of the 2012 at the University of 91łÔąĎ. Graves, the tenth Driehaus Prize laureate, will receive $200,000 and a bronze miniature of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates during a March 24 ceremony in Chicago.

Graves is founding principal of the firm Michael Graves & Associates (MGA) and the Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture, Emeritus at Princeton University, where he taught for 39 years. At Princeton, Graves reintroduced the principles of traditional and classical composition and also brought a dedication to urbanism to a modernist curriculum.

Receiving the Rome Prize in 1960 as a scholar at the American Academy in Rome, where he is now a Trustee, Graves was influenced by “the timeless grammar” of architecture that he has applied to his own work. Members of the Driehaus Prize jury commended his commitment to the traditional city—in its human scale, complexity, and vitality—as emblematic of a time-tested sustainability.

In structures such as the Portland (Ore.) Public Services Building and Humana Corporation headquarters in Louisville, Ky., Graves’ designs are characterized for their attention to detail and dignity. His concern for the character of his buildings extends to his interior design, the lighting, fixtures and furniture that he regards as essential to the overall character he aspires to create.

Graves considers himself a “general practitioner.” His influential designs, extending from buildings including the iconic Denver Central Library to everyday objects such as his celebrated Alessi teakettle, reflect the breadth of his interests and the depth of his humanistic instincts. Attention to enhancing the user experience characterizes all his work, from luxury goods to products for Target stores. The beauty and quality of ordinary objects, Graves believes, have the power to affect the soul.

Graves also views urbanism as a vital part of the built environment. His master plans impart a sense of community and place, while establishing a framework for sustainable, cohesive growth. For more than 12 years, MGA has been the campus master planner for Rice University, resulting in approximately 27 building projects, including three residential colleges for the North Campus.

“Michael Graves has enhanced not just the architecture profession with his talent and scholarship, but everyday life itself through his inspiring attention to beautiful and accessible design,” says , Driehaus Prize jury chair and Francis and Kathleen Rooney Dean of 91łÔąĎ’s . “The quality and scope of his work have enhanced how people work, live and interact in public and private realms, making a profound impact on American life.”

Established in 2003 through the 91łÔąĎ School of Architecture, the Richard H. Driehaus Prize honors lifetime contributions to traditional, classical and sustainable architecture and urbanism in the modern world. The Driehaus Prize represents the most significant recognition for classicism in the contemporary built environment.

In conjunction with the Driehaus Prize, writer and landscape preservationist Elizabeth Barlow Rogers was named the recipient of the 2012 , which includes a $50,000 cash prize.

The award is given to an individual working outside the practice of architecture who has supported the cultivation of the traditional city, its architecture and art.

Currently president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies, Rogers served as New York City’s first Central Park administrator and founding president of the Central Park Conservatory. She has since worked as a teacher, writer and lecturer. Rogers also will receive her award at the March event in Chicago.

Recipients of both awards are selected by a jury comprised of Adele Chatfield-Taylor (president of the American Academy in Rome), Robert Davis (developer and founder of Seaside, Fla.), Richard H. Driehaus (founder and chairman of Driehaus Capital Management), Paul Goldberger (architecture critic for The New Yorker), LĂ©on Krier (inaugural Driehaus Prize Laureate), Lykoudis, and Witold Rybczynski (Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania and architecture critic for Slate).

The University of 91łÔąĎ will host two lectures, “Architecture and Our Democratic Values,” by Robert A. Peck, commissioner of public buildings for the General Service Administration on Nov. 14 (Monday); and “Architecture and Place,” by Robert A.M. Stern, founder of Robert A.M. Stern Architects and dean of the Yale School of Architecture on Nov. 16 (Wednesday). Both lectures will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Bond Hall Auditorium.

Peck is the 2011 winner of the School of Architecture’s $50,000 and Stern is the winner of the School of Architecture’s $200,000 , both administered by 91łÔąĎ.

As commissioner of public Buildings, Peck is responsible for 370 million square feet of government-owned and leased space, accommodating one million federal workers. He has also been president of the D.C. Preservation League, an appointee to the District of Columbia’s Board of Education and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. In “Architecture and Our Democratic Values,” Peck will address how federal buildings reflect the aspirations of the American public.

“To paraphrase Jefferson and the capital commissioners of 1791, public buildings should elevate the building arts; they should be elegant and express confidence in the future,” Peck says. “It is not about style. To paraphrase Senator Moynihan, public buildings say something about our politics. Politics in the best sense: politics as expressing our shared values.”

Robert A. M. Stern, whose influential designs have revitalized traditional architecture, will discuss “Architecture and Place.” Stern’s architecture is rooted in the principles, values and ideals of traditional architecture. His Comcast Center, a prismatic glass curtainwall office tower in Philadelphia, carries forward the proportions of the classical obelisk. His acclaimed residential tower 15 Central Park West recaptures the spirit of New York’s great pre-war apartment houses. His current projects include the design of the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University and the Stayer Center for Business Executive Education at 91łÔąĎ.

The $200,000 Richard H. Driehaus Prize is presented annually to a distinguished architect and represents the most significant recognition for classicism in the contemporary built environment. The Henry Hope Reed Award is given to an individual working outside the practice of architecture who has supported the cultivation of the traditional city, its architecture and art through writing, planning or promotion. It is also presented annually through the 91łÔąĎ School of Architecture.

The University of 91łÔąĎ will host a three-day conference titled “” Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 (Thursday to Saturday) at Bond Hall on the University’s campus.

The event is open to the public and registration is required on the . There is no charge for 91łÔąĎ students and faculty.

The conference will examine the successes and failures of , by bringing together the architects, planners and builders who created it. By examining the founding of this seminal work in the history of urban design—the planning, the creation and testing of the code, and early building designs, experts will address the ongoing influence of Seaside today and look to the future of the New Urbanism movement.

Seaside is an unincorporated master-planned community on the Florida panhandle between Panama City Beach and Destin. The town has become the topic of lectures in architectural schools and housing-industry magazines, and is visited by design professionals from all over the world. It was also the setting for the 1998 satirical film “The Truman Show.”

Robert Davis, Seaside founder and developer; Andrés Duany, Seaside’s first architect and town planner; and Léon Krier, architect and master-plan consultant, will deliver keynote addresses at 5 p.m. Thursday in 104 Bond Hall. It will be followed by the launch of the Seaside Research Portal, an online resource for students and enthusiasts of architecture, urban design, planning and real estate that will serve as a digital archive of Seaside featuring maps, plans and images in a variety of media.

Friday’s presenters include Dhiru Thadani, a practicing architect, urban designer, educator and author of “The Language of Towns & Cities: A Visual Dictionary;” Scott Merrill, principal, Merrill, Pastor & Colgan Architects; and Christopher Leinberger, a land-use strategist, developer, researcher and author.

Saturday’s presenters include Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, a partner in the firm Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company and dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture; Daniel Parolek, a 1995 91łÔąĎ graduate, architect and urbanist committed to creating walkable, sustainable places; and Marianne Cusato, a 1997 91łÔąĎ graduate well known for her work on the Katrina Cottages and ranked the No. 4 most influential person in the home building industry in Builder magazine’s annual “Power on 50” list.

Contact: Kara Kelly, School of Architecture, 574-631-5720, kelly.166@nd.edu.

The University of 91łÔąĎ has received top honors from the 11th annual Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Charter Awards.

In the academic competition, Professor Philip Bess’ urban-design studio “Strategies for Sustainable Skaneateles” in central New York State received the grand prize. The team of six graduate students will receive $1,000 from The Oram Foundation Inc./Fund for the Environment and Urban Life.

Cindy Michel, a 2010 School of Architecture graduate, received the Academic Award for her graduate thesis project “From Settlement to City: A Masterplan for Cap-Haitien, Haiti,” a case study examining urban-design problems in dense, newly built settlements in developing countries.

The awards will be presented at a ceremony June 2 at the 19th annual Congress for the New Urbanism in Madison, Wis. The CNU is the leading organization promoting walkable, mixed-use neighborhood development, sustainable communities and healthier living conditions. For nearly 20 years, CNU members have used the principles in its charter to promote the hallmarks of New Urbanism, including: livable streets arranged in compact, walkable blocks; a range of housing choices to serve people of diverse ages and income levels; Schools, stores and other nearby destinations reachable by walking, bicycling or transit service; an affirming, human-scaled public realm where appropriately designed buildings define and enliven streets and other public spaces.

For more information about the 2011 Charter Awards and to view images of the award-winning projects, visit www.cnu.org/awards.

Robert A. M. Stern, whose influential designs have revitalized traditional architecture, has been named the 2011 recipient of the . Stern will receive $200,000 and a 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, Fla., 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, Conn. 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.

“More than any other practicing architect today, Bob Stern has brought classicism into the public realm and the mainstream of the profession, reinvigorating it for generations to come. We are honored to have him among the Driehaus Prize laureates,” says , Driehaus Prize Jury Chairman and Francis and Kathleen Rooney Dean of the .

Established in 2003 through the 91łÔąĎ 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 Driehaus Prize 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), Lykoudis, Adele Chatfield-Taylor (president of the American Academy in Rome), Robert Davis (developer and founder of Seaside, Fla.), Paul Goldberger (architecture critic for The New Yorker), LĂ©on Krier (inaugural Driehaus Prize laureate), and David M. Schwarz (principal of David M. Schwarz Architects, Inc.).

Contact: Kara Kelly, School of Architecture, 574-631-5720, Kelly.166@nd.edu

Raising awareness about the challenges faced by people with physical disabilities and increasing architecture students’ awareness of accessible design in the context of daily student life on the University of 91łÔąĎ campus is the purpose of the third annual Accessibility Awareness Day on Friday (Aug. 27).

Sponsored by the 91łÔąĎ , with the support of the Office of the University Architect and 91łÔąĎ , the day-long program is a component of the University’s commitment to accessibility.

Senior architecture students will be divided into three groups: one with crutches, one with wheelchairs, and one with blindfolds and canes. They will navigate the campus and participate in various day-to-day activities such as riding the shuttle, attending class, and using public restrooms. The day will conclude with a lecture on designing for compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

“Accessibility Awareness Day is intended is to make architecture students aware of the barriers that people with disabilities can face while distinguishing between Universal Accessible Design and minimum building and accessibility code requirements,” says Doug Marsh, associate vice president and University architect.

Contact: Kara Kelly, director of communications, School of Architecture, 574-631-5729, kkelly2@nd.edu

Steven Semes, associate professor at the School of Architecture and academic director of its Rome Studies Program, has been named the 2010 recipient of the Clem Labine Award. Sponsored by Restore Media, publisher of Traditional Building and Period Homes magazines, the Labine Award goes to the person who has done the most to “foster humane values in the built environment.”

Semes will be honored Oct. 21 in Chicago at the Restore Media Awards Dinner. The ceremony, which will also honor the 2010 Palladio Award winners, is part of the Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference, which will be held Oct. 20 to 23.

Semes received the award for his work in preservation and sensitive design, as well as his articles, blogs, lectures and his 2009 book, “The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism, and Historic Preservation,” which argues context matters and that new buildings and additions to old buildings should be harmonious with their neighbors.

“The goal of the award is to honor an individual who, over an extended period of time, has demonstrated a personal commitment to infusing humane values into the creation of public and urban spaces,” says Clem Labine, founder of Traditional Building, Period Homes and Old-House Journal. “The award’s underlying conviction is that the humanist principles of the Classical tradition are essential to creating a civil society.”

Co-chairs of the Award Selection Committee Martha McDonald, editor of Traditional Building magazine, and Will Holloway, editor of Period Homes magazine said Semes’ book is a major development in urban theory, and sets forth new criteria for what is appropriate in the creation of people-friendly civic spaces.

A practicing architect for more than 30 years, Semes has designed a wide variety of projects for preservation and new construction throughout the United States. He is also the author of “The Architecture of the Classical Interior” and a contributor to “The Elements of Classical Architecture.” His essays and reviews have appeared in the National Trust Forum Journal, Traditional Building, Period Homes, and American Arts Quarterly. He is a Fellow Emeritus of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America.

Contact: Kara Kelly, Kelly.166@nd.edu, 574-631-5720

The University of 91łÔąĎ School of Architecture will host a two-day colloquium, “Learning from Rome: The Influence of the Eternal City on Art, Architecture, and the Humanities” Feb. 5 and 6 (Friday and Saturday) in Bond Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Scholars from the School of Architecture; Department of Romance Languages and Literatures; Department of English; Department of Art, Art History and Design; and the Department of History will discuss the intersections of their disciplines and how Rome remains an essential pillar of each curriculum.

91łÔąĎ has had an academic presence in Rome for more than four decades, spanning multiple disciplines. The colloquium will examine the University’s past and future in the Eternal City, focusing on timeless principles that continue to inspire the best in contemporary building, urban design, art, language and literature.

Architecture historian Ingrid Rowland, a School of Architecture professor currently teaching in Rome, will deliver the keynote address at 5 p.m. on Feb. 5. A reception will follow. Rowland will sign copies of “The Vatican and Saint Peter’s Basilica of Rome,” for which she wrote the forward.

Presenters on Feb. 6 include Samir Younés, School of Architecture; Ted Cachey, Romance Languages and Literatures; Joseph Buttigieg, English; Robert Randolf Coleman, Art, Art History & Design; Robin Rhodes, Art, Art History & Design and Classics; and Sabine MacCormack, History and Classics. The Feb. 6 event will be held from 1 to 5 p.m., followed by a concluding reception.

More information is available or by calling 574-631-2872.

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 27 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 currently is under construction.

Born in Cádiz, Spain, in 1936, Manzano received his doctoral degree 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 age 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 91łÔąĎ 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 91łÔąĎ School of Architecture; Robert Davis, developer and founder of Seaside, Fla.; 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 LĂ©on Krier, inaugural Driehaus Prize Laureate.

For more information on the Driehaus Prize, please visit on the Web.

Acclaimed developer Robert Davis will speak on “Smart Growth Development: The Pursuit of Traditional Towns” at 4:30 p.m. Friday (Oct. 30) at the University of 91łÔąĎ School of Architecture.

The lecture, which will take place in Room 104 of Bond Hall, is free and open to the public.

Davis developed and co-founded Seaside, Fla., the first and most influential new urbanist community in the United States, described by Time magazine as “…the most astonishing design achievement of its era and one might hope, the most influential.”

A recipient of the Rome Prize, Florida’s Governor’s Award and Coastal Living’s Conservation Award for Leadership, Davis is a principal in The Arcadia Land Company, a firm specializing in town building and land stewardship. He was a founding board member and chair of The Congress for the New Urbanism and currently serves as board member of The Seaside Institute.

A graduate of the Harvard Business School, Davis is also a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and of the Institute of Urban Design.

NOTE: LECTURE CANCELLED

Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker, will give a talk titled “Why Architecture Matters” at 4:30 p.m. Monday (Oct. 26) in 104 Bond Hall at the University of 91łÔąĎ School of Architecture. The event is free and open to the public.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Goldberger has written The New Yorker’s celebrated “Sky Line” column since 1997. He began his career at The New York Times, where in 1984 he received the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.

He is the author of many books, including “Why Architecture Matters” and “Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture,” both published this year. His talk will address material presented in these books. Copies of each will be available for purchase.

Goldberger lectures widely on architecture, design, historic preservation and cities. He currently is at work on a PBS program about the architect Benjamin Latrobe. Goldberger also serves on the jury for the Driehaus Prize at 91łÔąĎ, a $200,000 award given yearly to a top practicing classical architect.

As part of the School of Architecture’s second annual Accessibility Awareness Day, senior architecture students used wheelchairs, crutches, blindfolds and canes to navigate the campus and participate in various day-to-day activities to raise awareness about the challenges faced by people with physical disabilities.

The University of 91łÔąĎ’s School of Architecture will host a colloquium titled “The Role of Traditional Architecture and Historic Preservation in Today’s Cities” from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept.16 (Wednesday) in 104 Bond Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

The colloquium will explore multiple approaches to historic preservation and case studies from around the world. Subjects to be addressed include the role of traditional architecture to revitalize city cores, comparisons of European and American approaches to preservation, and the role of the local and new integrated approaches to preservation.

Notable speakers include Thomas Will, former dean of the School of Architecture at Technische Universitaet in Dresden, Germany. Will has worked across Europe on significant renovation and restoration projects. He also has won a number of design competitions and participated in groundbreaking planning studies ranging across monument, urban block rehabilitation and palace grounds projects. He has published widely and continues to offer consulting services to major restoration projects across Europe.

Case studies will be presented by key 91łÔąĎ School of Architecture faculty, including professors Richard Economakis, John Stamper and Krupali Uplekar. Regions of exploration include Bath, England, and South Bend, Ind., along with propositions about how an integrated approach to historic preservation may best work for today’s cities.

Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil, the 2009 recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, will lecture on his life’s work Sept. 14 (Monday) at 4:30 p.m. in Room 104 of Bond Hall at the University of 91łÔąĎ.

Considered the foremost authority on Islamic architecture, El-Wakil has designed mosques, palaces, government buildings and houses, mostly in the Middle East. Selecting an Egyptian architect whose work reflects a non-Western tradition to receive the Driehaus Prize illustrates the variety and cultural fluency of classical architecture, according to Michael Lykoudis, Francis and Kathleen Rooney Dean of the 91łÔąĎ School of Architecture, which administers the annual prize.

“Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil’s work respects traditional Islamic heritage and reflects the influence of classical architecture across times and cultures,” Lykoudis said.

El-Wakil’s work — which includes the Halawa House in Agamy, Egypt, for which he won his first Aga Khan Award for Architecture; the residence of Ahmed Sulaiman in Jeddah; and the Quba Mosque in Medina — celebrates the principles of Islamic architecture and culture while reflecting the regional character and locality in which each structure resides. He works with traditional design principles that use indigenous materials and processes, and integrates them with contemporary technology to create familiar, functional and environmentally sustainable structures that are both timeless and for our time.

The prominent King Saud Mosque in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, exemplifies El-Wakil’s traditional craftsmanship. Without use of concrete, El-Wakil created a magnificent indigenous brick dome with a diameter of 20 meters and a peak height of 40 meters. In 1985, at the request of the prince of Wales, El-Wakil designed the Oxford University Centre for Islamic Studies. Integrating Islamic design concepts with traditional Oxford architecture was central to the project. The resulting complex is one of the few contemporary structures on campus devoid of concrete and steel. El-Wakil currently is working on three projects in Beirut, Lebanon, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as a master planning project in Qatar that integrates the best in contemporary low-energy planning with climate-tempered Islamic built forms.

El-Wakil was awarded the School of Architecture’s seventh annual Driehaus Prize on March 28 at the John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium in Chicago. The $200,000 annual award is endowed by Richard H. Driehaus, the founder and chairman of Driehaus Capital Management in Chicago, to honor an outstanding architect whose work applies the principles of classicism, including sensitivity to the historic continuum, the fostering of community, and consideration of the impact to the built and natural environment.

As part of the School of Architecture’s second annual Accessibility Awareness Day, senior architecture students used wheelchairs, crutches, blindfolds and canes to navigate the campus and participate in various day-to-day activities to raise awareness about the challenges faced by people with physical disabilities.