Italian architect Pier Carlo Bontempi has been named the recipient of the 2014 Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame. He will obtain the prize at a ceremony to be held March 29 (Saturday) in Chicago at the John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium.
A native of Fornovo di Taro, Parma, Italy, Bontempi studied architecture at the University of Florence and has taught at Florence University, the École Spéciale d’Architecture of Paris, Syracuse University of New York in Florence, the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart and the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture in London. His studio works on new standard architecture and architectural projects including restoration, rebuilding and town planning. His award-winning worldwide operate contains a block recovery plan in Parma’s historic center, as well as the Place de Toscane and the “Quartier du Lac” resort in Val d’Europe close to Paris.
“Bontempi’s function illustrates why the thought of the classic city and its architecture are referred to as ‘the authentic green,’” said Michael Lykoudis, Francis and Kathleen Rooney Dean of the Notre Dame College of Architecture. “His buildings, seamlessly woven into their urban environments, demonstrate the rules of the new classicism and urbanism. Their resilient construction, adaptive interior area and sensitive urban siting make them exemplars of architecture as an art of conservation and investment as opposed to consumption and waste.”
“Bontempi acquired his vast architectural understanding and versatility by learning the wealthy fabric of Italy, the cities and landscapes he grew up in,” explained Léon Krier, the inaugural Driehaus laureate. “The serenity, robustness, elegance and economic system of his substantial built operate supply exemplary versions for far better cities and buildings in the cities and towns of the future.”
Established in 2003 by the Notre Dame School of Architecture, the $ 200,000 Richard H. Driehaus Prize is awarded to a living architect whose operate embodies the highest ideals of conventional and classical architecture in contemporary society, and generates a positive cultural, environmental and artistic affect. In keeping with the College of Architecture’s classical and urbanist curriculum, the prize offers a forum for celebrating and advancing the concepts of the conventional city with an emphasis on sustainability.
“I am most pleased with the selection of Pier Carlo Bontempi as the 2014 Richard H. Driehaus Prize laureate,” stated Richard H. Driehaus, founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Chicago-based mostly Driehaus Capital Management LLC. “His work has persistently responded to the unique characteristics of historic environments as effectively as to the demands of modern society. Each project has accomplished a nuanced stability among conventional rules and worldly cosmopolitanism, a good quality lacking in today’s urban settings. His work is a reminder to all of us that excellent architecture possesses not only self confidence and wonder, but that it is born of a humanistic impulse.”
Each and every 12 months, in conjunction with the Driehaus Prize, the jury also selects the recipient of the $ 50,000 Henry Hope Reed Award, which honors outstanding achievement in the promotion and preservation of people ideals.
Ruan Yisan, professor of architecture at Tongji University, will receive the 2014 Reed Award. A native of Suzhou, China, Yisan supervised the Yangtze River Water Towns undertaking and the Pingjiang Historic District venture of Suzhou, both of which received Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards from UNESCO. He has been a consultant for conservation tasks in quite a few historic cities in China which includes Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Pingyao and Lijiang. He also has been honored by France’s culture ministry as a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters for his contributions to the conservation of Globe Heritage web sites.
“Professor Ruan has, via instance, shown us the significance of saving not just personal buildings, but whole environments, along with their culture, so that they turn out to be part of present day daily life, rather than isolated artifacts,” explained Lykoudis.
“Through huge-scale neighborhood interventions, Professor Ruan’s function has grow to be a model for preservation that addresses context in the broadest sense of the phrase,” said Driehaus.
Recipients of this year’s Driehaus Prize and Reed Award have been selected by a jury composed of Adele Chatfield-Taylor, president of the American Academy in Rome Robert Davis, developer and founder of Seaside, Fla. Paul Goldberger, contributing editor at Vanity Honest Léon Krier, architect and urban planner Demetri Porphyrios, principal of Porphyrios Associates and Witold Rybczynski, Meyerson Professor Emeritus of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania.
Speak to: Lucien Steil, College of Architecture, 574-631-1434, Lucien.Steil.3@nd.edu
Pier Carlo Bontempi named 2014 Driehaus Prize laureate
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