University of Delaware Office of Public Relations The Messenger Vol. 5, No. 1/1995 Recognition: A Special Report The man who will harmoniously blend the new with the old Internationally known architect Allan Greenberg, who has been selected to design the new classroom building at the University of Delaware, loves the classical style of architecture that graces the University's Mall. He's devoted his professional life to it. University President David P. Roselle said Greenberg was selected over other architects because members of the University's Visiting Committee on Architecture felt he could design a building that would blend in perfectly with existing structures at the heart of the campus. "The goal is to have a building of beauty and grace-envisioned nearly a century ago for this spot on the Mall-that visitors will see and think has always been here," Roselle said. "We believe Allan Greenberg can handle that assignment." Greenberg is perhaps best known for his design of a suite at the U.S. Department of State, where he worked to attain the character of rooms in which Thomas Jefferson would feel at home. That project, done at the request of then Secretary of State George P. Schultz, included conversion and renovation of diplomatic reception rooms, renovations to the office of the secretary of state and deputy secretary of state and work on the Treaty Ceremony Room, its antechambers and reception rooms. Other public buildings designed by Greenberg include Tercentenary Hall at the College of William and Mary campus in Williamsburg, Va.; interior renovations to the Blair House in Washington, D.C.; an addition to the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville; the Simon & Schuster executive offices in Rockefeller Center in New York City; and design of or renovation work on several courthouses, churches and other public buildings, including the Space Satellite Tracking Station in Homestead, Fla. Greenberg also has completed many private residential projects in New England, Connecticut, New York, the District of Columbia and Virginia. In a monograph devoted to Greenberg's work published earlier this year by Academy Editions, architectural historian Carroll William Westfall calls the architect's work "expressive and instructive architecture, producing dynamic effects....An enjoyment of his work is immediately available to all, for it requires no tutoring to sense a building's warmth, comfort or intimacy, or to respond to its dignity, decorum or grandeur. "Greenberg's works speak of great learning and of more," Westfall said. "They embody joyous, sensuous form, an underlying coherence of formal organization and a wide range of references made fresh with intelligible and intelligent departures from expectations." A native of South Africa who became an American citizen over 20 years ago, Greenberg holds a bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and a master's degree in architecture from Yale University.