The University of Notre Dame has named Liam OConnor and Philippe Rotthier as the laureates of this years Richard H. Driehaus Prize and Henry Hope Reed Award, respectively.Known for his extensive body of work that includes the British Normandy Memorial in France, OConnor, who was also previously a visiting professor at Notre Dame and Yale, was cited by School of Architecture dean Stefanos Polyzoides as producing several other important monuments that are "representation of deeper value and of national memory that is in enormously short supply these days."The jurys citation of the British-born Irish architect continued, "[His] memorial architecture is both classical and classic. It is classical since the language of the memorials refers to a specific historical period. Yet it is also classic because the collective memory it evokes as a remembrance of things past and things to come transcends time, alas, for as long as we remain humans."The annual $200,000 prize is among the h...