University of Delaware
Office of Public Relations
The Messenger
Vol. 5, No. 1/1995
Recognition: A Special Report
The man who will harmoniously blend the new with the old

     Internationally known architect Allan Greenberg, who has
been selected to design the new classroom building at the
University of Delaware, loves the classical style of architecture
that graces the University's Mall. He's devoted his professional
life to it.
     University President David P. Roselle said Greenberg was
selected over other architects because members of the
University's Visiting Committee on Architecture felt he could
design a building that would blend in perfectly with existing
structures at the heart of the campus.
     "The goal is to have a building of beauty and
grace-envisioned nearly a century ago for this spot on the
Mall-that visitors will see and think has always been here,"
Roselle said. "We believe Allan Greenberg can handle that
assignment."
     Greenberg is perhaps best known for his design of a suite at
the U.S. Department of State, where he worked to attain the
character of rooms in which Thomas Jefferson would feel at home.
     That project, done at the request of then Secretary of State
George P. Schultz, included conversion and renovation of
diplomatic reception rooms, renovations to the office of the
secretary of state and deputy secretary of state and work on the
Treaty Ceremony Room, its antechambers and reception rooms.
     Other public buildings designed by Greenberg include
Tercentenary Hall at the College of William and Mary campus in
Williamsburg, Va.; interior renovations to the Blair House in
Washington, D.C.; an addition to the Miller Center of Public
Affairs at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville; the
Simon & Schuster executive offices in Rockefeller Center in New
York City; and design of or renovation work on several
courthouses, churches and other public buildings, including the
Space Satellite Tracking Station in Homestead, Fla.
     Greenberg also has completed many private residential
projects in New England, Connecticut, New York, the District of
Columbia and Virginia.
     In a monograph devoted to Greenberg's work published earlier
this year by Academy Editions, architectural historian Carroll
William Westfall calls the architect's work "expressive and
instructive architecture, producing dynamic effects....An enjoyment 
of his work is immediately available to all, for it requires no 
tutoring to sense a building's warmth, comfort or intimacy, or 
to respond to its dignity, decorum or grandeur.
   "Greenberg's works speak of great learning and of more,"
Westfall said. "They embody joyous, sensuous form, an underlying
coherence of formal organization and a wide range of references
made fresh with intelligible and intelligent departures from
expectations."
     A native of South Africa who became an American citizen over
20 years ago, Greenberg holds a bachelor of architecture degree
from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and a master's
degree in architecture from Yale University.