The Richard H. Driehaus Museum congratulates 2014 laureates Pier Carlo Bontempi and Yisan Ruan. The two honorees were awarded prizes for their contributions to the built environment during a public ceremony which took place at the John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium on March 29.
The recipient of this year’s $200,000 Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Architecture at Notre Dame was presented to Italian architect Bontempi.
Established in 2003 by the Notre Dame School of Architecture, the Richard H. Driehaus Prize is awarded to a living architect “whose work embodies the highest ideals of traditional and classical architecture in contemporary society, and creates a positive cultural, environmental and artistic impact.”
The Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame is accompanied by another important honor: the Henry Hope Reed Award. This award focuses on a non-architect whose work contributes to realm of classicism and tradition in architecture and urban planning. This year the $50,000 Henry Hope Reed Award was presented to Yisan Ruan, professor of architecture at Tongji University and a world-renowned preservationist.
“Through large-scale local interventions, Professor Ruan’s work has become a model for preservation that addresses context in the broadest sense of the term,” said Driehaus.
Both Bontempi and Ruan were on hand to receive their awards from Mr. Driehaus and the jury committee as part of a weekend long celebration that included a gala dinner the night before.
Learn more about Pier Carlo Bontempi here.
Learn more about the preservation efforts of Professor Yisan Ruan here.