Jury

A panel of distinguished jurors selects one architect who has greatly influenced the field of traditional and classical architecture to receive the Richard H. Driehaus Prize. The jury also honors another individual with the Henry Hope Reed Award for notable contributions to the promotion and preservation of classical art and architecture. The jury travels together to a city of great architectural significance, exploring it together, and taking the city’s urban fabric as a backdrop for its deliberations. The 2012 jury met in London.


2012 Jury Members

Michael Lykoudis, 2003-Present (Chair)
Francis and Kathleen Rooney Dean of the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture 

Adele Chatfield-Taylor, 2004-Present 
President of the American Academy in Rome  

Robert Davis, 2009-Present
Developer and Founder of Seaside, Florida 

Richard H. Driehaus, 2003-Present
Founder and chairman of Driehaus Capital Management, LLC 

Paul Goldberger, 2006-Present
Architecture Critic for The New Yorker 

Léon Krier, 2005-Present
Inaugural Driehaus Prize Laureate

Witold Rybczynski, 2011-Present
Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania and Architecture Critic for Slate  

Jury Biographies

Michael Lykoudis is the Francis and Kathleen Rooney Dean of the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture and Jury Chairman. Dean Lykoudis has served as a professor of architecture at Notre Dame since 1991 and Jury Chairman since the Driehaus Prize’s inception in 2003. At Notre Dame, Dean Lykoudis has served the School in a number of capacities first as the Director of Undergraduate Studies then as Associate Chair and Chair, prior to becoming Dean. As Director of Undergraduate studies for over 10 years he was the principal organizer of the new classical and urban curriculum, and Dean Lykoudis established several new initiatives within the School of Architecture. For the 2000-2001 academic year Dean Lykoudis received Notre Dame’s Kaneb Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching. He has lectured at universities around the country and abroad as well as to professional and civic organizations. A graduate of Cornell University, Dean Lykoudis earned his Master’s degree from the University of Illinois’ joint business administration and architecture program. Prior to joining the Notre Dame faculty, he worked as a project designer and architect for firms in Florida, Greece, Connecticut and New York. He has directed his own practice since 1983 in Athens, and Stamford, Conn. and now in South Bend, Indiana.

Adele Chatfield-Taylor has been the President of the American Academy in Rome since 1988, after working for years as a professional historic preservationist and arts administrator. From 1973-1980, Ms. Chatfield-Taylor worked on the staff of the New York City Landmark Preservation Commission. In 1980, she established and became Executive Director of the New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation.  She was an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation from 1976-1984. From 1984-88, she was Director of the Design Arts Program for the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington and was Vice Chairman of the Policy Panel for the Design Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1978-82. Ms. Chatfield-Taylor has been an advisor to the architecture schools at Yale University, Princeton University, the University of Virginia, the University of Miami, and Harvard University. Ms. Chatfield-Taylor received a B.A. from Manhattanville College in 1966, and an M.S. from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Historic Preservation at Columbia University in 1974. She was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1978-79, a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome in 1983-84, and a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities 1983-90; she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. In 2002, she was decorated by the Presidente della Republica with the award of “Grand Officer of the Ordine al Merito.”

Robert Davis is the Founder and Developer of Seaside, Florida, the world’s first New Urbanist community, and is a partner at Arcadia Land Company. He is an Emeritus Board Member of the Congress for New Urbanism and founder of the Seaside Institute. Mr. Davis is a recipient of the Rome Prize, Florida’s Governor’s Award and Coastal Living’s Conservation Award for Leadership. He is a principal in The Arcadia Land Company, a firm specializing in town building and land stewardship. Mr. Davis was a founding board member and chair of The Congress for the New Urbanism. He is a current board member of The Seaside Institute and is a board member emeritus of 1000 Friends of Florida. Mr. Davis has served on Florida’s Environmental Land Management Study Committee to write and update Florida’s growth management legislation and on The Governor’s Council for Sustainable Florida. A graduate of Antioch College and the Harvard Business School, Mr. Davis is also a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and of the Institute of Urban Design.

Richard H. Driehaus is a Chicago-based philanthropist, investment advisor, and founder and chairman of Driehaus Capital Management, LLC. His philanthropic initiatives also include his work with The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, which benefits individuals and communities primarily by supporting the preservation and enhancement of the built and natural environments through historic preservation, quality architectural and landscape design, and conserving open space. Mr. Driehaus chose to partner the prize with the University of Notre Dame because of the School of Architecture’s lasting focus on traditional and classical architecture and urbanism. The prize began in 2003 as a $100,000 award, but in 2007, Mr. Driehaus decided to double the amount of the prize to $200,000.

Paul Goldberger is an award-winning architecture critic and author, currently serving as the Architecture Critic at The New Yorker and author of the magazine’s notable column “Sky Line” since 1997. He was the architecture critic for The New York Times for 25 years, earning a Pulitzer Prize for architectural criticism in 1984. Mr. Goldberger also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City, where he was formerly Dean of the Parsons New School of Design, a division of The New School. He lectures widely around the country on the subject of architecture, design, historic preservation and cities, and he has taught at both the Yale School of Architecture and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley in addition to The New School. Mr. Goldberger has also been awarded the President’s Medal of the Municipal Art Society of New York, the medal of the American Institute of Architects, and the Medal of Honor of the New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation. He is the author of several books, including Why Architecture Matters; Building Up and Tearing Down; and The City Observed: New York. He has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees by Pratt Institute, the University of Miami, Kenyon College, the College of Creative Studies, and the New York School of Interior Design. Mr. Goldberger has served as a special consultant and advisor on architecture and planning matters to several major cultural and educational institutions, including the Morgan Library in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, the New York Public Library and Cornell and Harvard universities.

Léon Krier is an architect, architectural theorist, and urban planner and the inaugural laureate of the Driehaus Prize. He served as the master-plan consultant for Seaside, Florida, the first New Urbanist community, and later designed the master plan for Poundbury, the New Urbanist community outside Dorchester, England. Mr. Krier is a renowned urban planner and classical architect who designs on the principles of sustainability, traditional form, and accessibility. Mr. Krier believes architecture should not be left to architects alone. He says the world is paying a high price for abandoning architecture to the whims of experts, forsaking a healthy urban effect through the creation of viable communities in favor of fleeting fashion. His views have inspired many notable people—architecture professionals and amateurs alike—to pursue a better built environment. Mr. Krier has taught architecture and town planning at the Royal College of Arts, London; Princeton University; the University of Virginia and Yale University. He is a founding trustee of the New School for Traditional Architecture & Urbanism in Charleston, South Carolina. Mr. Krier’s honors include the Jefferson Memorial Gold Medal; the Berlin Prize for Architecture; the Chicago American Institute of Architects Award; and the European Culture Prize. The author of several books, Mr. Krier’s Architecture: Choice or Fate was awarded the Silver Medal of the Académie Française.

Witold Rybczynski is an author, architectural critic, and professor. He is the architecture critic for Slate magazine and is currently serving as the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also co-edits the Wharton Real Estate Review. Mr. Rybczynski has written more than 300 articles and papers on the subject of housing, architecture, and technology. He has designed and built houses as a registered architect, as well as doing practical experiments in low-cost housing, which took him to Mexico, Nigeria, India, the Philippines, and China. Mr. Rybczynski has written a number of books, his most recent being Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities and The Biography of a Building: How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum. Mr. Rybczynski received his Bachelor and Master of Architecture from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he taught for 20 years. In 2007 he was the recipient of the Seaside Prize and the Vincent Scully Prize. Mr. Rybczynski is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council. He is an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and an honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He has received the AIA Collaborative Honors, and the Pennsylvania AIA President’s Award. He holds honorary doctorates from McGill University and the University of Western Ontario.