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December 16, 2011

Michael Graves Wins Driehaus Prize
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers Receives Henry Hope Reed Award

Michael Graves is the recipient of the 2012 Driehaus Prize.

The University of Notre Dame School of Architecture has announced the winners of the 2012 Richard H. Driehaus Prize and the Henry Hope Reed Award. Michael Graves, FAIA, has been named the Driehaus Prize laureate and will receive $200,000 and a bronze miniature of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is the Henry Hope Reed Award laureate. She will receive a $50,000 award. Both awards will be presented at the tenth Driehaus ceremony on Saturday, March 24 in Chicago.

The founding principal of Michael Graves & Associates (MGA) in 1964, Graves is also the Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture, Emeritus, at Princeton University, where he has taught for 39 years. He is noted for reintroducing the principles of traditional and classical architecture as well as a dedication to urbanism to a modernist curriculum at Princeton He also received the Rome Prize in 1960 as a scholar at the American Academy in Rome where he is now a trustee.

The Humana Building, Louisville, KY, was designed by Michael Graves and completed in 1985.

Michael Graves has become a household word, not only for his numerous buildings around the world, but also for his household products such as the Alessi teapot in 1985. “Michael Graves has enhanced not jus the architecture profession with his talent and scholarship, but everyday life itself through his inspiring attention to beautiful and accessible design,” says Michael Lykoudis, Driehaus Prize Chair and Francis and Kathleen Rooney Dean of the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture.

President of the Foundation for Landscape Studies in New York City, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is an acclaimed writer and landscape preservationist. She served as NYC’s first Central Park Administrator and the founding president of the public-private Central Park Conservancy, where she led the park’s restoration and preservation from 1979 to 1996. Since then, she has been a teacher, writer and lecturer on the cultural meaning of place in human life.

The winner of the 2012 Henry Hope Reed Award is Elizabeth Barlow Rogers.

She is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, Writing the Garden: A Literary Conversation Across Two Centuries.

The Driehaus Prize was established in 2003 to honor “lifetime contributions to traditional, classical and sustainable architecture and urbanism in the modern world,” and it is the “most significant recognition for classicism in the contemporary built environment,” according to an announcement by the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. Previous winners include Robert A.M. Stern (2011), Rafael Manzano Martos (2010), Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil (2009), Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andrés Duany (2008), Jaquelin T. Robertson (2007), Allen Greenberg (2006), Quinlan Terry (2005), Demetri Poryphrios (2004) and Léon Kreier (2003).

This year’s Driehaus and Henry Hope Reed juries included Adele Chatfield-Taylor, president of the American Academy in Rome; Robert Davis, developer and founder of Seaside, FL; Richard H. Driehaus, founder and chairman of Driehaus Capital Management; Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker; Léon Krier, inaugural Driehaus Prize laureate; Michale Lykoudis; and Witold Rybczynski, Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania and architecture critic for Slate.