The SAHGB runs an internationally prestigious awards programme celebrating the best in research and publishing in architectural history. This year’s Awards Ceremony will be held virtually on the 6th of December, 2021.
Elizabeth McKellar, Professor Emerita of Architectural History at the Open University, will introduce and announce the winners of this year’s SAHBG Awards.
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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.
2021 Shortlist:
Fabio Barry, Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment (Yale University Press)
Richard J. Butler, Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison: A Political History, 1750- 1850 (Cork University Press)
Miles Glendinning, Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power – a Global History (Bloomsbury)
Sugata Ray, Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850 (University of Washington Press)
Katherine Weikert, Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World, 900-1200 (Boydell & Brewer)
Sam Wetherell, Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain (Princeton University Press)
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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.
2021 Shortlist:
Alec Hamilton, Arts & Crafts Churches (Lund Humphries)
Niall Hobhouse, www.drawingmatter.org (Drawing Matter Trust)
Clare Hartwell, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Yale University Press)
Solomon Zewolde, Adam Walls, Dr. Tania Sengupta, Dr. Catalina Ortiz, Dr. Yasminah Beebeejaun, George Burridge and Dr. Kamna Patel. Supported by: The Bartlett, UCL Faculty of the Built Environment; ‘Race’ and Space: What is ‘race’ doing in a nice field like the built environment? https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/sites/bartlett/files/race_and_space_pdf_final.pdf
Elizabeth Darling and Nathaniel Robert Walker (eds), Suffragette City: Women, Politics, and the Built Environment (Routledge)
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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.
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Awarded to the author of the best essay submitted in competition (unpublished research, up to 10,000 words).
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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 awards 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’.
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