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Spanish architect Martos wins Driehaus Prize; Yale's Scully honored with Henry Hope Reed Award

The 2010 winner of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Clasical Architecture is Spanish architect Rafael Manzano Martos, while the winner of the Henry Hope Reed Award, which recognizes non-architects who make significant contributions to traditional architecture, is Yale's legendary architectural historian Vincent Scully.

The University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, which administers the awards, made the announcement Thursday. The $200,000 Driehaus Prize, presented annually to a distinguished classical architect, is worth $200,000. The Reed Award comes with a grant of $50,000. The honors wil be formally made in Chicago on March 27.

Martos, born in 1936, is recognized for his expert use of the Mudejar style, which blends Muslim and Christian influences. He portfolio includes hotels and other commercial buildings, along with residential complexes in Spain and the Middle East--one apparently connected with the singer Julio Iglesias. He has also done significant resotoration work, including a palace that is part of a complex where Christopher Columbus is said to have met with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.

Scully is Yale's Sterling Professor Emeritus in the History of Art, a hugely influential figure who has shaped the thinking of generations of Yale students and the architectural profession as a whole. He has long been a champion of historic preservation, as well as the vernacular and classical styles of architecture, and he is, as well, a brilliant, entertaining lecturer. (Full disclosure: I was fortunate enough to study with him in the 1980s.) His former students include at least one other Driehaus juror, New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger.

Chicago philanthropoist and businessman Richard Driehaus is the sponsor of the Driehaus awards.

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