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Architect of Gore Hall, DuPont Hall addition honored
4:50 p.m., Sept. 7, 2006--Internationally renowned architect Allan Greenberg, who designed Gore Hall and the addition to Du Pont Hall, both on The Green of UD's Newark campus, is the recipient of the 2006 Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. Established by Richard H. Driehaus, the founder of Driehaus Capital Management in Chicago, the prize, which is presented annually through the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, honors a major contributor in the field of traditional and classical architecture. Recipients, who are chosen by a committee of leading architects and educators, receive a $100,000 prize and a model of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates in Athens, Greece. The monument is best known as the first use of the Corinthian order on the outside of a building. The first American to receive the Driehaus Prize, Greenberg was chosen in 1995 by UD to design Gore Hall, a 65,000-square-foot Georgian-style classroom building funded by a $17.5 million gift from Robert Gore '59, vice chairman of the UD Board of Trustees, his wife, Sarah I. Gore, '76M, and the late Genevieve Gore. At the April 25, 1998, dedication of the building featuring a skylight-crowned three-story central atrium, UD President David P. Roselle described Gore Hall as “a magnificent landmark classroom building.” Greenberg also was chosen to design the 60,000-square-foot addition to Du Pont Hall as part of a $27 million renovation project that was formally rededicated in 2002.
During the dedication ceremony on Sept. 22, 2002, Greenberg said, “I came to the UD campus many years ago, and I made a sketch of both Du Pont Hall and Gore Hall on a sketch pad. For me, it is a great honor to have participated in [P.S.] du Pont's original vision and in the design of Gore Hall and Du Pont Hall.” Among Greenberg's residential, institutional and commercial clients are Harrison Ford, Martha Stewart, Peter Brant and Stephanie Seymour, the U.S. Department of State, Tommy Hilfiger and Princeton and Rice universities. A native of Johannesburg, South Africa, Greenberg was educated at the University of Witwatersrand, where he was trained in classical and Gothic architecture. He completed his formal training at Yale University, where he also taught in the schools of architecture and law. Greenberg also has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. Through his writings, scholarship, practice, public lectures, teaching and commissions, Greenberg continues to advance the study and practice of architectural traditions. Greenberg's books include George Washington, Architect (1995) and The Architecture of Democracy: American Architecture and the Legacy of the Revolution (2006). A television series based on the book, which has been described as a synthesis of the American republic's architectural and democratic traditions, is in progress. Article by Jerry Rhodes
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