<span style="font-weight:bold;">The holder of the Driehaus Prize 2017 is Robert Adam</span>

British architect Robert Adam was declared the laureate of the Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture on January 19, 2017. The most prestigious global award for contemporary traditionalist architects, associated with a financial reward of $200,000, was granted to him by a committee established by the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame in the USA. Its members include architects Michael Lykoudis, Léon Krier, and Demetri Porphyrios, critic Paul Goldberger, city founder Seaside Robert Davis, and emeritus president of the American Academy in Rome Adele Chatfield-Taylor. The award will be presented on March 25, 2017, at a ceremony in Chicago. He also posthumously received the Henry Hope Reed Award ($50,000) for the cultivation and promotion of traditional building and art to James Sloss Ackerman (November 8, 1919 - December 31, 2016), a renowned American historian of Renaissance architecture and expert particularly on Michelangelo's and Palladio's works.

Robert Adam was born in 1948. This namesake of the 18th-century Scottish classical architect studied architecture at the University of Westminster. In 1986, he co-founded the design firm Winchester Design, renamed ADAM Architecture in 2010, based in London and Winchester. With a team of approximately eighty members, it is one of the largest studios focused on traditionalist design today. Adam is the author of several books on classical architecture and contemporary regionalism, as well as a member and officer of several professional organizations (RIBA, INTBAU, etc.). His numerous completed projects include residential and public buildings, interior design, heritage restorations, and urban developments, particularly in Great Britain. Among the most notable are commercial buildings and residences in London, the Sackler Library in Oxford, and residential areas in the spirit of New Urbanism, Field Farm and Thicket Mead in the English countryside.

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