The University of Florence is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools and has around 50,000 students enrolled.
The year 2004 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Giancarlo De Carlo (1919−2005) was an Italian architect and anarchist. He was a member of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) and became closely linked to Urbino as its town planner and creator of its master plan. Throughout his architecture career he advocated for the consideration of human, physical, cultural, and historical forces in design.
Léon Krier CVO is a Luxembourgish architect, architectural theorist, and urban planner, a prominent critic of modernist architecture and advocate of New Classical architecture and New Urbanism. Krier combines an international architecture and planning practice with writing and teaching. He is well known for his master plan for Poundbury, in Dorset, England. He is the younger brother of architect Rob Krier.
The year 2005 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Val d'Europe is the easternmost sector of the new town of Marne-la-Vallée, located around 35 km (22 mi) to the east of Paris, France. It was built as part of a public-private partnership between The Walt Disney Company and the French state, based on a convention signed in 1987. It is bordered by the Marne river to the north, the A4 motorway to the south, and is served by the RER A suburban train line as well as the LGV Interconnexion Est high-speed train line.
The year 2006 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Richard Herman Driehaus was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the founder, chief investment officer, and chairman of the hedge fund, Driehaus Capital Management LLC, based in Chicago.
The University of Notre Dame School of Architecture was the first Catholic university in America to offer a degree in architecture, beginning in 1898. The School offers undergraduate and post-graduate architecture programs.
Henry Hope Reed Jr. was an American architecture critic known for his advocacy of classical architecture and his outspoken criticism of modernist architecture.
Cooper Robertson is an international architecture and urban design firm, headquartered in New York City. It was founded in 1979 by Alex Cooper and Jaquelin T. Robertson.
The Driehaus Architecture Prize, fully named The Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame, is a global award to honor a major contributor in the field of contemporary traditional and classical architecture. The Driehaus Prize was conceived as an alternative to the predominantly modernist Pritzker Prize.
Thomas H. Beeby is an American architect who was a member of the "Chicago Seven" architects and has been Chairman Emeritus of Hammond, Beeby, Rupert, Ainge Architects (HBRA) for over thirty-nine years.
Initiated in 2005, the global Henry Hope Reed Award or short Reed Award is given to an individual working outside the practice of architecture who has supported the cultivation of the traditional city, its architecture and art through writing, planning or promotion. It is awarded in conjunction with the Driehaus Architecture Prize at the Notre Dame School of Architecture. It is named in honor of architecture critic Henry Hope Reed Jr.
The year 2014 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
New Classical architecture, New Classicism or Contemporary Classical architecture is a contemporary movement in architecture that continues the practice of Classical architecture. It is sometimes considered the modern continuation of Neoclassical architecture, even though other styles might be cited as well, such as Gothic, Baroque, Renaissance or even non-Western styles – often referenced and recreated from a postmodern perspective as opposed to being strict revival styles.
Scott Merrill is an American architect. He is a principal at Merrill, Pastor & Colgan Architects. He was the recipient of the Driehaus Prize in 2016. He has designed many of the buildings in Seaside, Florida, including the "Honeymoon Cottages" project for which he won an AIA national design award in 1991, and he has worked with Leon Krier.
The Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture is an award organized by INTBAU, thanks to the contribution of Richard H. Driehaus Charitable Lead Trust, with the support of the Serra Henriques Foundation, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and Hispania Nostra, and with the High Sponsorship of the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic.
Michael Lykoudis is an architect, urban designer and consultant, known for his work as dean of the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture and a co-founder of the Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame. He is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.
The Walsh Family Hall of Architecture is a building on the campus of the University of Notre Dame and houses of the Notre Dame School of Architecture. Construction started in 2016 and was completed in 2019. The school was previously hosted in Bond Hall. Designed by John Simpson, it is an example of New Classical architecture, for which the School of Architecture is well known for. The complex features a Greek-architecture inspired Hall of Casts, a stoa, a tower and a courtyard. The building design won several awards for its design.
