The holder of the Driehaus Prize 2019 is Maurice Culot

Paris architect Maurice Culot was announced as the laureate of the Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture on January 17, 2019. The most prestigious global award for contemporary traditionalist architects, associated with a monetary reward of $200,000, was awarded to him by a commission 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, architects Melissa DelVecchio and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, architect and writer Witold Rybczynski, critic Paul Goldberger, and the founder of Seaside, Robert Davis. The award will be presented on March 23, 2019, at a ceremony in Chicago. He also received the Henry Hope Reed Award ($50,000) for the cultivation and promotion of traditional construction and the Carl Laubin award, an American-British architect and painter (born 1947), known for his paintings mainly depicting classical but also modernist buildings.

Maurice Culot, originally from Belgium, was born in 1937 in Seville. He studied architecture in Brussels and completed his studies with an internship at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in Taliesin West. He is one of the initiators and key theorists and practitioners of New Urbanism. Since the late 1960s, he has been engaged in the rehabilitation of traditional urban tissue, designing reconstructions of 19th-century and early 20th-century houses and urban blocks, as well as new urban districts (especially in Belgium and France) with traditional layouts and buildings in all appropriate styles from vernacular revival to deconstructivism. He is currently the president of the international studio ARCAS, with a thousand realizations and three headquarters in Paris, the Belgian city of Knokke-Heist, and Gdańsk in Poland. In 1969, Culot founded and subsequently co-directed Archives d'Architecture Moderne in Brussels, an association caring for an archive and a magazine dedicated primarily to the discovery and popularization of "forgotten" architects of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and unorthodox modernism.

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