Prince Charles accepted the National Building Museum’s Vincent

Prince Charles accepted the National Building Museum’s Vincent Scully Prize Nov. 3 in Washington, DC, where he declared his admiration for “traditional urbanism.” Scully, the longtime Yale professor and architectural historian, presented the award to the prince, who said the $25,000 prize will be used by the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment to help recovery efforts in Mississippi. In October the Foundation sent three of its London-based staff — Andy Cameron, Michael Mehaffy, and Ben Pentreath — to the Mississippi Renewal Forum to help in post-Hurricane Katrina planning. The Building Museum recognized Charles’s contributions to architecture and urban design, especially his commitment to creating urban areas with human scale. One exhibit on traditional architecture and another celebrating the prince’s School of Traditional Arts in London opened at the museum in November.