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Ben Pentreath, Driehaus laureate

A house designed by Ben Pentreath in Moscow. (Ben Pentreath Ltd.) I believe I first heard of architect Ben Pentreath from a video called “Three Classicists” in which he, along with George Saumarez Smith, and Francis Terry drew, in 2010, a classical scene on the walls of the Kowalski Gallery, in London. It was videotaped in stop action, or time-lapse, shrinking the time of drawing to about three…

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Atlantis: Krier's ideal village

Atlantis: Krier’s ideal village

Computer rendering of Atlantis, an ideal village proposed by Leon Krier for the island of Tenerife. In February, the architect and urban theorist Léon Krier, famed for planning Prince Charles’s new town of Poundbury, sent me a video about his proposed academic village on a hillside at the Mediterranean island of Tenerife, owned by Spain. Commissioned in the 1980s by the celebrated gallerists and…

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Rob Krier wins his Driehaus

Rob Krier wins his Driehaus

Cité Judiciaire, Luxembourg designed by Rob Krier. (Wikipedia) The architect and urban theorist Rob Krier is this year’s Driehaus Prize laureate. The first Driehaus Prize winner, two decades ago, was his brother, architect and urban theorist Leon Krier, who was also born in Luxembourg and is about eight years younger than his sibling. Rob Krier (Notre Dame) Also a winner, a very big winner and…

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Richard H. Driehaus, R.I.P.

Richard H. Driehaus, R.I.P.

“A Classical Perspective” (2012), by Carl Laubin. (Driehaus) Richard Driehaus, who died suddenly at age 78 of a cerebral hemorrhage at home on March 9, was beloved among architects and historic preservationists for his stewardship of old buildings, especially the relatively unsung treasures of his native Chicago. The Windy City is over-celebrated for its modernist buildings, and yet in their dark…

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Germany's Treese wins Driehaus

Germany’s Treese wins Driehaus

Apartment building in Berlin by 2021 Driehaus Prize laureate Sebastian Treese. (STA) Perhaps it makes sense that Europeans have received the last five Driehaus prizes. At the risk of appearing nativist, the last American laureate was Florida architect Scott Merrill (2016). This year’s deserving recipient has just been announced by the architecture school at the University of Notre Dame. Sebastian…

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Eyed by Geo. Ranalli's theater

Eyed by Geo. Ranalli’s theater

George Ranalli addition to the County Theater, in Doylestown, Penn. (Ranalli)

Do the citizens of Doylestown, Penn., feel as if the new addition to their theater is giving them the eye, following them closely as they walk by? Sort of like the Mona Lisa or some dark portrait of an old patriarch on the wall of a haunted house in a horror movie?

If so, then the citizens of Doylestown probably like…

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Driehaus lauds Thai architect

Driehaus lauds Thai architect

Bank building in Bangkok by Driehaus winner Ong-ard Satrabhandhu. (Ong-ard Architects)

The 2020 Driehaus Prize for Thai architect Ong-ard Satrabhandhu recalls my dinner today. I have just returned from a restaurant called Sawadee, where I continued my quest for an acceptable pad Thai after the closure, last month, of my favorite restaurant, Pakarang, where I’d been wolfing down perfect pad Thai…

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Driehaus for the Breitmans

Le Plessis-Robinson, six miles southwest of Paris. (Daniel Barreau/Wikipedia)

The annual Driehaus Prize, named for Chicago philanthropist Richard H. Driehaus and administered by the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, recognizes the career of work in the classical style by living architects. It has been handed out since 2003, and the sum of buildings by its laureates, if…

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