ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., April 19, 2024 - The Society of Architectural Historians is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 SAH Publication Awards and SAH Award for Film and Video. The awards recognize distinguished publications in architectural history, urban history, landscape history, preservation, and architectural exhibition catalogues; an outstanding JSAH article written by an emerging scholar; and the most distinguished work of film or video on the history of the built environment. The Society announced the winners at its 77'h Annual International Conference in Albuquerque.
The award winners are listed below.
Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award
The Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award was established in 1949 to recognize annually the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar.
Subhashini Kaligotla
Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India
Yale University Press, 2022
Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award
Named for Antoinette Forrester Downing, this award recognizes excellence in a published work devoted to historical topics in preservation and honors her scholarship and recognition of the value of local inventories and surveys.
SAH Exhibition Catalogue Award
Architectural history exhibitions address historical and critical questions in special ways, through the presentation of both documentation and artifacts to a diversified audience. Exhibition catalogues have become distinctive vehicles for the expression of scholarship in architectural history. They remain as the substantial and enduring contribution after the life of the exhibition is spent. The SAH Exhibition Catalogue Award recognizes excellence in this form of scholarship and publication.
Angelo Maggi, Foreword by Michelangelo Sabatino
G.E. Kidder Smith Builds: The Travel of Architectural Photography
ORO Editions, 2022
Honorable Mention:
Yuka Yokoyama and William Whitaker,Editors
Uncrating the Japanese House: Junzō Yoshimura, Antonin and Noemi Raymond, and George Nakashim
August Editions, 2022
Spiro Kostof Book Award
This award was established in 1993 in recognition of Spiro Kostof's extraordinarily productive and inspiring career. In the spirit of Kostof's writings, the award recognizes interdisciplinary studies of urban history that make the greatest contribution to our understanding of the growth and development of cities.
Tara A. Dudley
Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence
University of Texas Press,2021
Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award
The Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award was established in 2005 to recognize annually the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of landscape architecture or garden design. Named for SAH past president and landscape historian Elisabeth MacDougall, the award honors the late historian's role in developing this field of study.
Penny Sparke
Nature Inside: Plants and Flowers in the Modern Interior
Yale University Press, 2020
Founders' JSAH Article Award
Established in 1970, the Founders' Award recognizes an article published by an emerging scholar in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH) that exhibits excellence of scholarship and presentation.
E. Sasu Kwame Sewordor
"The Urban Culture of the 'Model' Christian Settlement at Abokobi, Ghana,1854-1929"
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 81 No.2,June 2022
SAH Award for Film and Video
The SAH Award for Film and Video recognizes the most distinguished work of film or video on the history of the built environment. The most important criterion for award recognition is the work's contribution to t understanding of the built environment, defined either as deepening that understanding or as bringing t understanding to new audiences.
Barry Farm: Community, Land, and Justice in Washington, D.C.
Year Completed: 2023
Sabiyha Prince and Samuel George, Directors
DC Legacy Project and Bertelsmann Foundation, Producers
Honorable Mention:
Tropic Fever
Year Completed: 2022
Robin Hartanto Honggare, Mahardika Yudha, Perdana Roswaldy, Directors
Nominations for the 2025 award cycle will open in June.
About the Society of Architectural Historians
Founded in 1940, the Society of Architectural Historians is an international nonprofit membership organizations that promotes the study, interpretation and conservation of architecture, design, landscapes and urbanism worldwide. SAH serves a network of local, national and international institutions and individuals who, by vocation or avocation, focus on the built environment and its role in shaping contemporary life. SAH promotes meaningful public engagement with the history of the built environment through advocacy efforts, print and online publications, and local, national and international programs. Learn more at sah.org.
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