The holder of the Driehaus Prize 2013 is Thomas Beeby

American architect Thomas H. Beeby was announced on December 11, 2012, as the laureate of the Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. The most prestigious global award for contemporary traditionalist architects, accompanied by a monetary prize of $200,000, was awarded by a committee established by the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame in the USA. Its members include architects Léon Krier and Demetri Porphyrios, critics Paul Goldberger and Witold Rybczynski, Seaside city founder Robert Davis, and president of the American Academy in Rome, Adele Chatfield-Taylor. At the same time, the Henry Hope Reed Prize ($50,000), designated for non-architects for the cultivation and promotion of traditional building and art, was awarded to British historian and architectural theorist David Watkin (most notable books include Morality and Architecture Revisited, 2001, A History of Western Architecture, 5th edition 2011). Both prizes will be presented on March 23, 2013, at a ceremony in Chicago.

Thomas H. Beeby was born in 1941 in Oak Park (Illinois). He studied architecture at Cornell and Yale universities, and in 1971 co-founded the studio Hammond, Beeby and Associates (now HBRA) with James Hammond. He taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and from 1985 to 1991 was the dean of the School of Architecture at Yale. In the 1970s, he was a member of the group of architects known as the Chicago Seven (other members included Stanley Tigerman and James Ingo Freed), which promoted an architecture with a meaningfully and formally richer vocabulary in opposition to orthodox modernists. Thomas Beeby's most important buildings are in the USA (for example, the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Building for the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988, Harold Washington Library Center there, 1991, both in classical style). In Europe, the studio participated in two extensive urban planning proposals for the center of London (Paternoster Square, 1990) and Berlin (Quartier Am Tacheles, 2001). The first was not realized, while the realization of the second is currently delayed.

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