Driehaus Prize

There are already several respected awards given in the field of traditional architecture and urbanism. The most prestigious among them is the Driehaus Prize (Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture). It takes the form of a model of the Corinthian Lysikrates monument in Athens and has been awarded annually since 2003 by the School of Architecture at Notre Dame, with its donor, Chicago investor, art collector, school sponsor, and heritage conservationist Richard H. Driehaus, supporting it as a deliberate counterbalance to the Pritzker Prize, which is awarded with an equally high monetary reward (100,000 USD, like the Nobel Prize) to modernist-oriented architects. So far, the Driehaus Prize has been awarded to Léon Krier (2003, Luxembourg), Demetri Porphyrios (2004, United Kingdom), Quinlan Terry (2005, United Kingdom), Allan Greenberg (2006, USA), Jaquelin T. Robertson (2007, USA), and the married couple Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (2008, USA).