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Cornell University; Yale University. Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
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Thomas Beeby
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He is a representative of New Urbanism and New Classical Architecture. An Oak Park, Illinois native, Beeby received a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Cornell in 1964 and master’s from Yale in 1965. In 1971, Beeby and James Hammond founded Hammond Beeby & Associates (now HBRA).
After teaching for six years at the Illinois Institute of Technology and serving as Director of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, he served from 1985 to 1992 as Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, where he remains an Adjunct Professor.
Beeby was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 1991. Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin, reflecting on the group’s influence in 2005, commended the “critical spirit that helped the Chicago Seven alter the course of the city’s architecture.”
Chairman Emeritus of Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge Architects (HBRA), Beeby spent over 40 years as the firm’s Director of Design, leading projects such as the James Baker Institute at Rice University, Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, the Bass Library at Yale University, and the United States Federal Building and Courthouse in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Progressive Architecture cited three of Beeby’s public library designs, including the Sulzer Regional Library and the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago. The Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, Illinois
United States Federal Building and Courthouse, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Building, Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture Court
Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Farrell Library Renovation/Hale Library Addition, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Taft School, New Athletic Facility, Watertown, Connecticut
Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, Ashford, Connecticut
Anne T. & Robert M. Bass Library Renovation, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1985 to 1992 Dean of the Yale School of Architecture Initiatives & Projects.
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Thomas H. Beeby, an innovative architect celebrated for an array of cultural, academic, religious, residential, and commercial buildings, has been named the recipient of the 2013 Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame. Beeby, the 11th Driehaus Prize laureate, will receive $200,000 and a bronze miniature of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates during a March 23 ceremony in Chicago.
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Supported and encouraged Yale Journal of Architecture and Feminism.
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The Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame National Honor Award Thomas H. Beeby, an innovative architect celebrated for an array of cultural, academic, religious, residential, and commercial buildings, has been named the recipient of the 2013 Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame. Beeby, the 11th Driehaus Prize laureate, will receive $200,000 and a bronze miniature of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates during a March 23 ceremony in Chicago.The Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame National Honor Award Thomas H. Beeby, an innovative architect celebrated for an array of cultural, academic, religious, residential, and commercial buildings, has been named the recipient of the 2013 Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame. Beeby, the 11th Driehaus Prize laureate, will receive $200,000 and a bronze miniature of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates during a March 23 ceremony in Chicago.