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The Society of Architectural Historians announces recipients of the 2011 Book Awards

New Orleans -April 14, 2011    The Society of Architectural Historians announced the recipients of the Society of Architectural Historians 2011 Book Awards, presented during the Annual Meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award  - established in 1987, the Downing award honors excellence in a published work devoted to historical topics in preservation. 

Randall Mason

The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City

University of Minnesota Press, 2009

Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award – established in 1949, the Hitchcock award recognizes annually the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar.

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics

Yale University Press, 2009

Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award- established in 1990, The Johnson award recognizes excellence in published exhibition catalogues.

Andrew Blauvelt

Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes

Walker Art Center, 2008

Spiro Kostof Book Award - established in 1994, the Kostof award recognizes the work that, focusing on urbanism and architecture, provides the greatest contribution to our understanding of historical development and change. Two awards were given for 2011.

Çiğdem Kafescioğlu

Constantinopolis / Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital

Penn State University Press, 2009

Dell Upton

Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic

Yale University Press, 2008

Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award – established in 2006 to recognize annually the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of landscape architecture or garden design.

Anne Goldgar

Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age

University of Chicago Press, 2007

Founders’ Award – established in 1970, the Founders’ Award recognizes the best article on the history of architecture published by an emerging scholar in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

G. Alex Bremner

The Architecture of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa: Developing a Vernacular Tradition in the Anglican Mission Field, 1861-1909

JSAH, volume 69, December 2009

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