The Rafael Manzano Martos Prize for Classical Architecture and Restoration of Monuments
The Rafael Manzano Martos Prize for Classical Architecture has been established by The Richard H. Driehaus Charitable Lead Trust, with support from the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, for the diffusion of the values of classical and traditional architecture and urbanism, not only in the restoration of monuments and urban ensembles of historic and artistic value, but also in the creation of new works able to fit harmoniously in older contexts through their understanding of the importance of the continuity of their traditions.
The Prize honours a living architect whose life’s work embodies the mentioned principles, contributing to the preservation or the extension of our traditional built heritage and the local identities it defines. The Prize consists of 50,000 Euros and a commemorative medal and will be awarded for the first time on 16 October 2012 in a ceremony at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid.
For this inaugural prize-giving, the Jury has selected Leopoldo Gil Cornet for his thirty years of restoration works in the Real Colegiata de Roncesvalles (Navarra), placed in a landscape of very special intangible value which was the main gate to Spain from the north of Europe for centuries and where this complex of buildings was created in the Middle Ages as the first stop on the Way of St James.
Albergue de pelegrinos
The Rafael Manzano Martos Prize has been made possible by a generous contribution from The Richard H. Driehaus Charitable Lead Trust.
The Rafael Manzano Martos Prize also gratefully acknowledges the support of the following:
Fundacion Mapfre
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
The University of Notre Dame School of Architecture
