Initiated in 2005, the global Henry Hope Reed Award or short Reed Award is given to an individual working outside the practice of architecture who has supported the cultivation of the traditional city, its architecture and art through writing, planning or promotion. It is awarded in conjunction with the Driehaus Architecture Prize at the Notre Dame School of Architecture. It is named in honor of architecture critic Henry Hope Reed Jr.
The award winner receives a bronze medal showing a bas relief cameo of Reed, surrounded by laurel. It was custom designed by P.E. Guerin, the oldest decorative hardware firm in the United States.
The prize was first presented on March 19, 2005, at the University Club of Chicago, to Henry Hope Reed.
Laureates The 2018 Reed Award was received by the chair of the Society for Rebuilding Dresden's New Market (GHND) in Germany,Neumarkt Dresden Society GHND Torsten Kulke.
The 2020 Reed Award was given to Clem Labine, the creator of the Palladio Award, which recognizes excellence in traditional design, and the eponymous Clem Labine Award for creating more humane and beautiful environments.
The historian of US American urban planning John Reps is posthumously awarded the Reed Award in 2021, being known for his iconic book The Making of Urban America (1965) among other influential research groundwork.
The list of laureates: Year Recipient Country 2005 Henry Hope Reed 2006 David Morton 2007 Edward Perry Bass 2008 Roger G. Kennedy 2009 Fabio Grementieri 2010 Vincent Scully 2011 Robert A. Peck 2012 Elizabeth Barlow Rogers 2013 David Watkin 2014 Ruan Yisan 2015 Richard J. Jackson 2016 Eusebio Leal Spengler 2017 James S. Ackerman 2018 Torsten Kulke 2019 Carl Laubin 2020 Clem Labine 2021 John Reps 2022 Wendell Berry 2023 Adele Chatfield-Taylor
See also Richard H. Driehaus Prize Notre Dame School of Architecture
References
External links The Henry Hope Reed Award Introduction video of the Reed Award The Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame University of Notre Dame School of Architecture