Impact
Designing the future, one building at a time
Designing the future, one building at a time
The new traditional architecture and urbanism that our curriculum embraces is not a style. It is, more importantly, both a design approach and a cultural choice. It is a choice because it proposes that an accomplished architectural invention should be based on highly refined design ideas received and renewed over time, relayed from person to person and from project to project — each generation producing architectural designs that balance the genius of the individual with the wisdom of received knowledge.
It is also a design approach that depends on a number of vital intellectual virtues and cultural obligations that are regularly tested through criticism-based studio instruction. A civic duty that inserts new projects in existing settings and considers every project as an addition to their urban and natural order.
Our Global Reach and Influence
By amplifying leading architectural voices, fostering innovative student contributions, and celebrating excellence, we shape a more thoughtful and connected built environment.
- 8 Dean’s Charrettes across the region since 202
- 8 volumes of over 160 essays and commentary written by the world’s preeminent architects, published at the SoA biannually, in ANTA
- 250 pages written, drawn, and published each year by students for STOA Magazine
- 46 laureates of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize and Henry Hope Reed Award
Institutes and Centers
Book Series
Ratio et Architectura
Ratio et Architectura is a book series dedicated to scholarly research in architectural history and theory, professional projects and counterprojects, architectural pedagogy and the arts, architecture and ecology, translation of important texts and treatises, and the documentation of important buildings.
In the News
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ND Architecture Names 2026 Award Recipients
February 25, 2026
Notre Dame’s Walsh School of Architecture announced the laureates of the annual Henry Hope Reed and Richard H. Driehaus prizes.
Mentions
Francis and Kathleen Rooney Dean of the School of Architecture and Professor
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John Simpson Wins 2026 Driehaus Prize
February 18, 2026
British architect John Simpson is the winner of the 2026 Richard H. Driehaus Prize, the world’s largest architecture prize by monetary value. Established in 2003 through the philanthropy of Richard H. Driehaus and administered by the University of Notre Dame, the prize carries a $200,000 cash award.
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Richard H. Driehaus Prize Will Be Awarded To British Architect John Simpson
February 09, 2026
In honor of "his lifelong dedication to and outstanding achievements in traditional urbanism and architecture, John Simpson has been selected as the 2026 laureate of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame.
