The holder of the Driehaus Prize 2024 is Peter Pennoyer

American architect Peter Pennoyer was announced as the laureate of the Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture on January 25, 2024. The most prestigious global award for contemporary traditionalist architects, accompanied by a financial reward of $200,000, was granted to him by a committee established by the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame in the USA. Its members include architects Stefanos Polyzoides (dean of the School of Architecture at Notre Dame), Michael Lykoudis (emeritus dean of the school), architects and first recipients of the prize Léon Krier and Demetri Porphyrios, architects Melissa DelVecchio, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Julia Treese. The public award ceremony will take place on March 23, 2024, in Chicago.

Peter Pennoyer was born in 1957 in New York City. He earned his bachelor's (1981) and master's (1984) degrees in architecture from Columbia University in New York. During his studies, he worked in the office of Robert A. M. Stern. In 1984, he founded his own firm, which currently employs around fifty architects, interior designers, and restoration specialists.

The two hundred completed projects mainly include new residences in both rural and urban settings, as well as award-winning revitalizations of historic buildings in New York, its surroundings, and other regions of the USA. Characteristic is the emphasis on precise work with classical architectural language, grounded in deep historical knowledge: along with architectural historian Anne Walker, Pennoyer published fresh and insightful monographs on the masters of American classical architecture from the first half of the 20th century, such as Grosvenor Atterbury, Warren & Wetmore, and Delano & Aldrich. Peter Pennoyer has been married since 1988, and he and his wife Katherine Lee have three children.

At the same time as the Driehaus Prize, the Henry Hope Reed Prize ($50,000) is awarded for the cultivation and promotion of traditional construction and art. This year it was awarded to Maurice Cox, a native of New York, architect, urban planner, and student of John Hejduk at Cooper Union. Cox has excelled particularly in the field of sustainable and participatory urban planning. He was able to implement his ideas as the mayor of Charlottesville (Virginia) and later in municipal offices in Detroit and Chicago, where he contributed to the revitalization of troubled neighborhoods.

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