The Driehaus Prize is awarded to an architect whose work embodies the principles of traditional and classical architecture in contemporary society.
THE 2006 JOHN BURGEE LECTURE Alexander Tzonis was the first to investigate the way classical buildings are put together as formal structures. Drawing from Vitruvius, the poetics of Aristotle, the theories of classical architecture, music, and poetry since the Renaissance, and the poetics of the Russian formalists, Prof. Tzonis will explain the poetics of composition that classical architecture shares with classical music, poetry, and drama.
