Awards
The SAHGB runs an internationally prestigious awards programme celebrating the best in research and publishing in architectural history. Our awards programme is open and inclusive wherever possible, celebrating diversity of approach in histories of the built environment broadly conceived. You do not need to be a member to nominate or be nominated.
We are looking for work that is innovative, ambitious and rigorous in the history of the built environment. Previous winners of our awards and prizes have gone on to have esteemed careers in architectural history and heritage.
The process of the awards generally opens around March each year, with phases of nomination, followed by shortlisting, reading, and decisions for the results that are made in the Autumn. We accept nominations and self-nominations online.
Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion
The most prestigious prize in the discipline, awarded annually since 1959 to a monograph that makes an outstanding contribution to the study or knowledge of architectural history. For academics, heritage professionals, and architects. We welcome nominations from all, using a simple online form.
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Colvin Prize
Awarded annually to the author or authors of an outstanding work of reference of use and value to architectural historians and the discipline of architectural history, across a range of formats. For established academics, heritage professionals, architects, and large or ongoing research and publication projects.
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Heritage Research Award
The SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award recognises and celebrates the quality of architectural-historical research produced by colleagues in heritage and conservation practice, as private consultants and in non-departmental public bodies. Winning work will receive a recently commissioned medal.
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Hawksmoor Essay Medal
Awarded to the author of the best essay submitted in competition (unpublished research, up to 10,000 words). Aimed at PhD and early career researchers in architectural history and heritage studies (broadly conceived). Comes with a prize of £400 and publication in Architectural History.
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Dissertation Prize
This prize celebrates the outstanding work in architectural history being carried out by postgraduate students on taught Masters-level courses in UK universities. The prize rewards innovative and critical thinking in and around the subject of Architectural History, broadly conceived, which supports the Society’s aim to help create ‘a bigger discipline’. Nominations are invited from course leaders, tutors and Directors.
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