, accepted The Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame 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 Notre Dame , 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.”

The University of Notre Dame 91��Ƶ 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 91��Ƶ 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.

Notre Dame 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 91��Ƶ 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, 91��Ƶ 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 91��Ƶ 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 91��Ƶ 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 Notre Dame 91��Ƶ 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 Notre Dame 91��Ƶ 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 Léon 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 Notre Dame 91��Ƶ 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 91��Ƶ, Davis is also a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and of the Institute of Urban Design.

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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 Notre Dame 91��Ƶ 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 Notre Dame, a $200,000 award given yearly to a top practicing classical architect.

As part of the 91��Ƶ 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 Notre Dame’s 91��Ƶ 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 91��Ƶ 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 Notre Dame 91��Ƶ 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 Notre Dame.

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 Notre Dame 91��Ƶ 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 91��Ƶ. 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 91��Ƶ 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 91��Ƶ 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.

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WTTW11, Chicago Public Television, will broadcast the 2009 Richard H. Driehaus Prize Award Colloquium Sunday (May 10) at 3 p.m. CST. The hour-long program features an interview with University of Notre Dame 91��Ƶ of Architecture Dean and two panel discussions.

The first discussion is a conversation between 2009 Driehaus Prize recipient Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil and The New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger. The second focuses on preservation and policy with Fabio Grementieri, an Argentine scholar and preservationist who received the accompanying 2009 Henry Hope Reed Award. Panelists include Adele Chatfield-Taylor, president of the American Academy in Rome, and Russell Keune, former director of international relations for the American Institute of Architects.

The 2009 Driehaus Prize was presented to El-Wakil, one of the leading voices in contemporary Islamic architecture and a practitioner known worldwide for his use of traditional form and technique, at the colloquium, which was held March 28 at the John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium in Chicago.

The Driehaus Prize, which is administered by the , is awarded annually to 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.

The Henry Hope Reed Award is given to an influential supporter of the classical architecture movement. Over the past ten years, Grementieri has served as the project manager of some of Buenos Aires’ most delicate and culturally significant architectural preservation projects, including the Palacio Bosch (United States Embassy), the Errázuriz Palace (National Museum of Decorative Arts) and the Pereda Palace (Brazilian Embassy).

Administered by Notre Dame, the annual $200,000 Driehaus Prize and $50,000 Henry Hope Reed Award represent the most significant recognition for classicism and traditional urbanism in the contemporary built environment.

The University of Notre Dame 91��Ƶ of Architecture will host a three-day conference,“Sustainability and the Environment: The Original Green,”beginning Thursday (Feb. 5) with a keynote address by Tom Low, LEED-accredited architect and a director at Duany Plater-Zyberk&Company. His talk will begin at 7 p.m. in Room 104 of Bond Hall.

The conference, which will address cutting-edge methods of sustainable building while drawing on the wisdom of the past, will continue through Sunday (Feb. 7), concluding at noon with a talk by Washington Post columnist Neal Peirce, who will present an address titled"Sustainability: Do It or Die."

All conference events are free and open to the public, but registration is required to attend a Friday luncheon. More information and a complete schedule are available by calling the 91��Ƶ of Architecture at 574-631-6137 or visiting on the Web.

The 91��Ƶ of Architecture, with its focus on classical architecture and urban design, supports traditional urbanism and architecture as the only comprehensive approach to today’s environmental challenges. The conference will focus on how those traditional principles address the full spectrum of issues involved: from regional land use and resource management, to the development of healthy communities and lifestyles, to durable, energy-efficient, non-toxic built environments.

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Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil, one of the leading voices in contemporary Islamic architecture and a practitioner known worldwide for his use of traditional form and technique, has been named the 2009 Richard H. Driehaus Prize laureate.

The Driehaus Prize, which is administered by the University of Notre Dame 91��Ƶ of Architecture, is awarded annually to 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.

Over the past four decades, El-Wakil has built mosques, public buildings and private residences throughout the Middle East maintaining balance between continuance and change. His work ñ 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 ñ celebrates the overall 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.

El-Wakil’s craftsmanship resonates throughout the King Saud Mosque in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with its magnificent indigenous brick dome, constructed without concrete. His vision shines through in the Oxford University Centre for Islamic 91��Ƶ in its sensitive blending of two diverse architectural traditions, integrating Islamic design concepts seamlessly into Oxford’s existing vernacular. Much of El-Wakil’s work grapples with that duality of permanence and change, in individual projects and across cultures.

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 best contemporary low-energy planning with climate-tempered Islamic built forms.

The 91��Ƶ of Architecture also has announced that Fabio Grementieri, Argentine scholar and preservationist, is being honored with the 2009 Henry Hope Reed Award. The Henry Hope Reed Award is given to an influential supporter of the classical architecture movement.

Over the past 10 years, Grementieri has served as the project manager for some of Buenos Aires’ most delicate and culturally significant architectural preservation projects including: the Palacio Bosch (United States Embassy), the Err·zuriz Palace (National Museum of Decorative Arts), the Pereda Palace (Brazilian Embassy), and Villa Ocampo (property of UNESCO).

Grementieri leads a strong campaign to preserve the architectural heritage and treasures of Buenos Aires. One of the sites this campaign aims to preserve is the world famous opera house, Teatro ColÛn. This week, Grementieri will release a new book co-authored with Pablo Zunino titled"Argentina’s Cultural and Natural Heritage ñ The Bicentennial’s Album."

Last year, the annual Driehaus Prize was doubled to a $200,000 unrestricted cash award and the Reed Award was doubled to $50,000. Together the two prizes represent 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 Notre Dame 91��Ƶ of Architecture; Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker; David M. Schwarz, president and CEO of David M. Schwarz Architects; Adele Chatfield-Taylor, president of the American Academy in Rome; Robert Davis, principal at Arcadia Land Company and Founder of Seaside, Fla.; and Lon Krier, architect, scholar and the inaugural Driehaus Prize recipient.

_ Contact: Kara Kelly, director of communications, 91��Ƶ of Architecture, 574-631-5720,_ " kelly.166@nd.edu ":mailto:kelly.166@nd.edu , " www.driehausprize.org ":http://www.driehausprize.org

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The University of Notre Dame 91��Ƶ of Architecture, in conjunction with the Office of the University Architect, Disability Services and LCM Architects, will host a daylong program Friday (Aug. 29) to raise awareness of the challenges faced by people with physical disabilities.

The program is designed to increase architecture studentsawareness of the many facets of accessible design in the context of daily student life on the Notre Dame campus.

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 a shuttle bus, attending class and using public restrooms. Students will follow their regular schedules in the morning, navigate Notre Dame Stadium in the afternoon and conclude the day with a lecture on designing for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

The lecture, presented by Jack Catlin and Gigi McCabe-Miele of LCM Architects, a Chicago-based firm that consults nationally on ADA compliance, will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Room 104 of Bond Hall. It is free and open to the public.

Doug Marsh, associate vice president and University architect, said the intention of the program 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. Marsh said this effort is a component of the Universitys commitment to accessibility.

The best way to provide an environment that is accessible to all is at the design stage,said Scott Howland, coordinator of disability services at Notre Dames Sara Bea Learning Center for Students with Disabilities.

This is a great way to make architecture students more aware of the things they can do to incorporate universal design into everything they create,he said.

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Organizers of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize, which is administered through the University of Notre Dame 91��Ƶ of Architecture, today announced that they have opened the nomination process to the public.

The Driehaus Prize is awarded annually to an outstanding architect or firm whose work applies the principles of classicism, with respect to sustainability, to the built and natural environment. It is the largest unrestricted prize of its kind.

All interested parties – practicing architects, firms and their representatives, as well as industry leaders, architectural students and classical enthusiasts – are encouraged to submit nominations for consideration for the 2009 laureate.

Notre Dame will accept nominations on-line at through Sept. 15. Nominators will be required to fill out a brief application which calls for a nominee biography, a project list, and images of his or her work. Full instructions are provided on-line.

We thought it was only fitting to open up the nomination process for the Richard H. Driehaus Prize,said Driehaus, founder and chairman of Driehaus Capital Management.The values and principles we celebrate with this prize are about fostering community and building beautiful environments that stand the test of time and honor tradition. Open submissions will help the jury cast a wider net and ensure we are reviewing the works of people whose contributions are indeed felt in the world today.

Michael Lykoudis, Francis and Kathleen Rooney Dean of Notre Dames 91��Ƶ of Architecture, added:We are extremely excited to be engaging the community at large in the nomination process. Hearing the voices of those intimately involved in building our communities, designing our towns and cities, and creating our homes will guarantee that the prize remains reflective of our times. This process will challenge our jury to examine diverse candidates who have shaped and influenced the practice of classical architecture and urbanism in a variety of ways.

The 2009 recipient of the $200,000 unrestricted cash prize will be selected by a jury composed of Driehaus, Lykoudis, Paul Goldberger (architecture critic for The New Yorker), David M. Schwarz (principal of David M. Schwarz/Architectural Services Inc), Léon Krier (architect and scholar), Adele Chatfield-Taylor (president of the American Academy in Rome) and Robert Davis (founder of Seaside, Fla.).The jury will hold its deliberations in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in September and the winner will be honored at the annual Driehaus Prize weekend in Chicago in March.

Established in 2003, the Driehaus Prize honors, promotes and encourages architectural excellence that applies the principles of traditional, classical and sustainable architecture and urbanism in contemporary society and environments. It is presented annually by the Notre Dame 91��Ƶ of Architecture to an outstanding architect in recognition of his or her work. In conjunction with the Driehaus Prize, the annual Henry Hope Reed Award is given to recognize the contributions of supporters of classical architecture operating beyond the drafting tables and outside the practice of architecture.

Past Driehaus Prize recipients include Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (2008), Jaquelin T. Robertson (2007), Allan Greenberg (2006), Quinlan Terry (2005), Demetri Porphyrios (2004) and Krier (2003).Reed Award recipients include Edward Perry Bass (2007), David Morton (2006) and Reed (2005).

_ Contact: Kara Kelly, director of communications, 91��Ƶ of Architecture, 574-631-5720,_ " kelly.166@nd.edu ":mailto:kelly.166@nd.edu , " www.driehausprize.org ":http://www.driehausprize.org

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Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, the husband and wife team that leads the Miami architectural firm Duany Plater-Zyberk&Company (DPZ), have been named the recipients of the sixth annual Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, administered by the University of Notre Dame 91��Ƶ of Architecture. They will receive $200,000 and a model of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates at a ceremony March 29 in Chicago.

Two of the most influential and controversial architects and town planners in the country, Duany and Plater-Zyberk have been at the forefront of the effort to revive the principles of traditional neighborhood design. Plater-Zyberk describes their work as using successful and sustainable design ideals to address the challenges of modern life. They view traditional town planning as a panacea for social ills ranging from traffic congestion and other environmental threats to the disenfranchisement of the poor and the elderly.

In addition to their architectural and academic work, Duany and Plater-Zyberk are best known for designing citiesstreet grids, town centers, parksand for writing architectural and building codes that help revitalize communities. DPZ has completed designs for nearly 300 new towns, regional plans and revitalization projects, including neighborhoods in Naples, Fla.; Baton Rouge, La.; and Providence, R.I. Plater-Zyberk, the dean of the University of Miami 91��Ƶ of Architecture, also leads Miami 21, a project to overhaul city zoning intended to discourage exposed parking garages, create wider sidewalks and build homes where people can live above their businesses.

Duany and Plater-Zyberk have received numerous design awards, including the Brandeis Award for Architecture, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Medal of Architecture from the University of Virginia, the Vincent J. Scully Prize for exemplary practice and scholarship in architecture and urban design from the National Building Museum, and the Seaside Prize for contributions to community planning and design from The Seaside Institute. Plater-Zyberk received an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Notre Dame in 1998. Duany and Plater-Zyberk met as undergraduates at Princeton and both received masters degrees from the Yale 91��Ƶ of Architecture.

Roger G. Kennedy, the National Park Service director under President Clinton for four years, will receive the $50,000 Henry Hope Reed Award in association with the Driehaus Prize. The author of “Greek Revival America” and “Wildfire and Americans: How to Save Lives, Property and Your Tax Dollars,” as well as an historian, teacher and public servant, Kennedy is respected for his tireless advocacy for the importance of sound environmental practices and sustainability.

Richard H. Driehaus, the founder and chairman of Driehaus Capital Management in Chicago, endowed both awards through the Notre Dame 91��Ƶ of Architecture because of its reputation as a national leader in incorporating the principles of traditional and classical architecture into the task of modern urban development.

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Robert Brandt just sent to the Chapman Friedman Gallery inLouisville,Ky., a cabinet made from curly-maple wood, cut to show off tiger-stripe patterns in the grain.

With its hand-paintedpanelsreplicas of 1920s Ringling Bros. and Barnum&Bailey circus posterscurved legs, candy-striped awnings and tent-pole tops, the cabinet pays homage to theGreatest Show on Earth.

Each piece I do is something new,says Brandt, a faculty member in Notre Dames91��ƵofArchitecture.It is not a reproduction of anything that exists. Creativity is key. I am an artist and sculptor before I am a furniture builder or craftsman.

Brandts personal design studio is in the basement of Bond Hall, along with the woodshop that houses the91��ƵofArchitectures furniture design concentration. Part of Brandts agreement when appointed in 1992 by former architecture chair Thomas Gordon Smith was to maintain a professional presence within the school.

It is important for students to see my work progress,Brandt says.Along with the students, I take a pile of rough lumber to a finished project. In my studio I have got to set an example.

Furniture design programs are typically part of university art departments, not schools of architecture. Notre Dame is the only university in the nation that exclusively operates its furniture design concentration out of an architecture program, demonstrating to students the relationship between furniture and architecture.

Thinking three-dimensionally makes students better architects,Brandt says.You have to think three-dimensionally when drawing two-dimensionally. For some people it is a God-given talent, for others it is not. You need this as an architect.

Student design projects use historical precedents, although all work must be of original design. Brandt promotes tried and true techniques such as creating stains by soaking pieces of steel wool or nails in vinegar.

I encourage and use the old processes until I am convinced something new is better,he says.I show students the past is relevant.

The concentration attracted only a handful of male students in its first two years. Brandt invited female students to take his class and today women make up more than half the students in the program.

And graduates are using their skills in the workplace. Heather Reilly von Mering, a 2003 alumna who now works for The Classic Group, Inc., a Boston-area architectural firm, says:Residential clients are always asking to have a piece of furniture to match their millwork. I use the construction methods (Brandt) taught me in the design and development of built-in cabinetry and other custom pieces.

Brandts work is on display at galleries not only inLouisville, but also inNew Orleans,Connecticutand throughout theMidwest, a showcase for his talent since his days as an undergraduate at theUniversityofSouthern Indiana. Though he did not start working with wood until his senior year, he won top awards for his first projects from juries at major craft exhibitions. It encouraged him to pursue a masters degree in wood sculpture fromIndianaStateUniversityinTerre Haute.

After experiments with deconstructionism and minimalism, these days Brandts work reflects the Biedermeier style (clean, simple lines often with whimsical styling seen in mid-19 ^th^ -centuryGermany) and other forms of the 1820s and30s, such asFrances Empire style,Englands Regency style, and this countrys Federal style.

One of Brandts pieces can cost $7,000 in a gallery, though patrons such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art inNew Yorkare willing to pay $10,000-plus for his commissioned pieces.

Brandt encourages shaping wood by hand. He explains:Students need to use carving gouges, rasps, files. They need to feel the wood to understand.