The Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award, established in 1949, by the
Society of Architectural Historians
The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) is an international not-for-profit organization that promotes the study and preservation of the built environment worldwide. Based in Chicago in the United States, the Society's 3,500 members include ...
, annually recognizes "the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar."
The oldest of the six different publication awards given annually by the Society, it is named after the mother of architectural historian
Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Henry-Russell Hitchcock (1903–1987) was an American architectural historian, and for many years a professor at Smith College and New York University. His writings helped to define the characteristics of modernist architecture.
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Society of Architectural Historians
*1949 -
Harold Wethey. ''Colonial Architecture and Sculpture in Peru.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949.
*1950 -
Rexford Newcomb. ''Architecture of the Old Northwest Territory.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950.
*1951 -
Anthony Garvan. ''Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial Connecticut.'' New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951.
*1952 -
Antoinette Downing &
Vincent Scully
Vincent Joseph Scully Jr. (August 21, 1920 – November 30, 2017) was an American art historian who was a Sterling Professor of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and the author of several books on the subject. Architect Phil ...
. ''The Architectural Heritage of Newport.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952.
*1953 - Thomas Howarth. ''Charles Rennie Macintosh and the Modern Movement.'' London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1952.
*1954 -
Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Henry-Russell Hitchcock (1903–1987) was an American architectural historian, and for many years a professor at Smith College and New York University. His writings helped to define the characteristics of modernist architecture.
Early life
He ...
. ''Early Victorian Architecture in Britain.'' New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954.
*1955 -
Talbot Hamlin. ''Benjamin H. Latrobe.'' New York: Oxford University Press, 1955.
*1956 -
Carroll L. V. Meeks. ''The Railroad Station: An Architectural History.'' New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956.
*1957 -
Frederick D. Nichols. ''The Early Architecture of Georgia.'' Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1957.
*1958 -
Marcus Whiffen
Marcus Whiffen (4 March 1916 - February 2002) was an English architectural journalist, historian, author and photographer specialising in British and American architecture. He was Professor Emeritus in the School of Architecture at Arizona State ...
. ''The Public Buildings of Williamsburg.'' Colonial Williamsburg, 1958.
*1959 -
Kenneth John Conant. ''Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture, 800 to 1200.'' Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1959.
*1960 - David Coffin. ''The Villa D'Este at Tivoli.'' Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960.
*1961 -
James S. Ackerman. ''The Architecture of Michelangelo.'' London: Zwemmer, 1961.
*1962 -
George Kubler
George Alexander Kubler (26 July 1912 - 3 October 1996) was an American art historian and among the foremost scholars on the art of Pre-Columbian America and Ibero-American Art.
Biography
Kubler was born in Hollywood, California, but most of h ...
. ''Art and Architecture of Ancient America.'' New York: Penguin Books, 1962.
*1963 -
Robert Branner
Robert Branner (January 13, 1927 – November 26, 1973) was an American art historian, archaeologist, and educator. A scholar of medieval art, specializing in Gothic architecture and illuminated manuscripts, Branner was Professor of Art History a ...
. ''La Cathedrale de Bourges.'' Paris: Tardy, 1962.
*1964 -
Alan Gowans
Alan Gowans (November 30, 1923 – August 19, 2001) was an art historian and university academic, educated at the University of Toronto and Princeton University. A charismatic teacher and prolific author, his academic specialty was North American ...
. ''Images of American Living, Four Centuries of Architecture and Furniture as Cultural Expression.'' Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964.
*1965 - John McAndrew. ''The Open-Air Churches of Sixteenth Century Mexico.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965.
*1966 -
Richard Krautheimer
Richard Krautheimer (6 July 1897 in Fürth (Franconia), Germany – 1 November 1994 in Rome, Italy) was a 20th-century art historian, architectural historian, Baroque scholar, and Byzantinist.
Biography
Krautheimer was born in Germany in 1897, t ...
. ''Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture.'' Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1965.
*1967 -
Richard Pommer
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. ''Eighteenth-Century Architecture in Piedmont.'' New York: New York University Press, 1967.
*1968 -
Barbara Miller Lane. ''Architecture and Politics in Germany, 1918-1945.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968.
*1969 -
Phyllis Williams Lehmann. ''Samothrace, Volume III: The Hieron.'' Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.
*1970 -
Franklin Toker. ''The Church of Notre Dame in Montreal.'' Montreal: McGill University Press, 1970.
*1971 - (no award given)
*1972 -
H. Allen Brooks. ''The Prairie School.'' Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972.
*1972 -
Thomas F. Matthews. ''The Early Churches of Constantinople: Architecture and Liturgy.'' University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971.
*1973 -
Marvin Trachtenberg Marvin may refer to:
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;In the United States
* Marvyn, Alabama, also spelled Marvin, an unincorporated community
* Marvin, Missouri, an unincorporated community
* Marvin, North Carolina, a village
* Marvin, South Dakota, a town ...
. ''The Campanile of Florence Cathedral, "Giotto's Tower".'' New York: New York University Press, 1971.
*1974 -
Laura Wood Roper Laura Newbold Wood Roper (March 15, 1911 – December 5, 2003) was an American author who also published under the name L. N. Wood. In the 1930s she worked for the Works Progress Administration. She published three biographies for young adults in th ...
. ''FLO, A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted.'' Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.
*1975 -
Rudolf Wittkower
Rudolf Wittkower (22 June 1901 – 11 October 1971) was a British art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, who spent much of his career in London, but was educated in Germany, and later moved to the Unite ...
. ''Gothic vs. Classic, Architectural Projects in Seventeenth-Century Italy.'' New York: G. Braziller, 1974.
*1976 - (no award given)
*1977 -
Mary Louise Christovich
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;
Sally Kitredge Evans
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;
Betsy Swanson
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* Betsy Ancker-Johnson (born 1927), American plasma physicist
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Roulhac Toledano. ''The Esplanade Ridge'' (Vol. V in New Orleans Architecture series). Pelican Publishing, 1977.
*1978 -
Myra Nan Rosenfeld
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and
The Architectural History Foundation
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. ''Sebastiano Serlio on Domestic Architecture.'' New York: Architectural History Foundation, 1978.
*1979 -
Abbott Lowell Cummings. ''The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979.
*1979 -
Norma Everson. ''Paris: A Century of Change, 1878-1978.'' New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
*1980 -
Richard Krautheimer
Richard Krautheimer (6 July 1897 in Fürth (Franconia), Germany – 1 November 1994 in Rome, Italy) was a 20th-century art historian, architectural historian, Baroque scholar, and Byzantinist.
Biography
Krautheimer was born in Germany in 1897, t ...
. ''Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308.'' Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.
*1981 -
Franklin Hamilton Hazelhurst. ''Gardens of Illusion: The Genius of Andre LeNostre.'' Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1980.
*1982 -
Robert Grant Irving. ''Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker and Imperial Delhi.'' New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
*1983 -
Alberto Pérez-Gómez Alberto Pérez-Gómez (born 24 December 1949) is an architectural historian and theorist known for taking a phenomenological approach to architecture. He lives in Montreal.
Biography
Born December 24, 1949, in Mexico City he graduated as an eng ...
. ''Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science.'' Cambridge: MIT Press, 1983.
*1984 -
Paul Venable Turner. ''Campus: An American Planning Tradition.'' Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984.
*1985 -
David Brownlee. ''The Law Courts: The Architecture of George Edmund Street.'' Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984.
*1986 - William L MacDonald. ''The Architecture of the Roman Empire: An Urban Appraisal.'' New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
*1987 -
Dell Upton. ''Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia.'' Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987.
*1988 - David Van Zanten. ''Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc and Vaudoyer.'' Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987.
*1989 - David Friedman. ''Florentine New Towns: Urban Design in the Late Middle Ages.'' Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989.
*1990 -
Anthony Vidler. ''Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Architecture and Social Reform at the End of the Ancien Regime.'' Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.
*1991 -
Hilary Ballon. ''The Paris of Henri IV.'' New York: Architectural History Foundation, 1991.
*1991 -
Patricia Waddy. ''Seventeenth-Century Roman Palaces.'' Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.
*1992 -
Richard Etlin. ''Modernism in Italian Architecture, 1890-1940.'' Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991.
*1994 -
Fikret Yegul. ''Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity.'' New York: Architectural History Foundation, 1992.
*1995 -
Michael J. Lewis. ''The Politics of the German Gothic Revival: August Reichensperger.'' Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993.
*1996 - William J. MacDonald and John Pinto. ''Hadrian's Villa and Its Legacy.'' New Haven:
Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous.
, Yale Universi ...
, 1995.
*1997 -
Harry Francis Mallgrave. ''Gottfried Semper Architect of the Nineteenth Century.'' New Haven:
Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous.
, Yale Universi ...
, 1996.
*1998 -
Joseph Rykwert
Joseph Rykwert CBE (born 1926) is Paul Philippe Cret Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, and one of the foremost architectural historians and critics of his generation. He has spent most of his working life in th ...
. ''The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture.'' Cambridge:
MIT Press
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, 1996.
*1999 -
Marvin Trachtenberg Marvin may refer to:
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* Marvyn, Alabama, also spelled Marvin, an unincorporated community
* Marvin, Missouri, an unincorporated community
* Marvin, North Carolina, a village
* Marvin, South Dakota, a town ...
. ''Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art & Power in Early Modern Florence.'' New York:
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press in the world. It is also the King's Printer.
Cambridge University Pre ...
, 1997.
*2000 -
Alina Payne. ''The Architectural Treatise in the Renaissance.'' New York:
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Pre ...
, 1999.
*2001 -
Eve Blau. ''The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934.'' Cambridge:
MIT Press
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States). It was established in 1962.
History
The MIT Press traces its origins back to 1926 when MIT publish ...
, 1999.
*2002 -
Sibel Bozdogan. ''Modernism and Nation-Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic.'' Seattle:
University of Washington Press
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, 2001.
*2002 -
Isabelle Hyman. ''Marcel Breuer, Architect.'' New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001.
*2003 -
Joseph Siry, ''The Chicago Auditorium Building. Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City.'' Chicago:
University of Chicago Press
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, 2002.
*2004 -
Katherine M. Solomonson, ''The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition.'' New York:
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Pre ...
, 2001.
*2005 -
Jordan Sand, ''House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930.'' Harvard University Asia Center Publications, 2003.
*2006 -
Christine Macy &
Sarah Bonnemaison, ''Architecture and Nature - Creating the American Landscape.'' Routledge, 2003.
*2007 - John Archer, ''Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690–2000.'' University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
*2008 - Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon, ''The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe.'' Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
*2009 - Abigail A. Van Slyck, ''A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890-1960.'' University of Minnesota Press, 2006; and, Honorable Mention to Steven Nelson. ''Cameroon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture In and Out of Africa.'' University of Chicago Press, 2007.
*2010 - Cammy Brothers, ''Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture.'' Yale University Press, 2008.
*2011 - Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, ''Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics.'' Yale University Press, 2009.
*2012 - Michelangelo Sabatino, ''Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy.'' University of Toronto Press, 2010.
*2013 -
Jean-Louis Cohen
Jean-Louis Cohen (born 20 July 1949) is a French architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and city planning. Since 1994 he has been the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at New York Universi ...
, ''Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War,''
Canadian Centre for Architecture
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA; french: Centre Canadien d'Architecture) is a museum of architecture and research centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 1920, rue Baile (1920, Baile Street), between rue Fort (Fort Street ...
/ Éditions Hazan, 2011.
*2014 - John Harwood, ''The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976'', University of Minnesota Press, 2011
*2015 - Christopher Curtis Mead, ''Making Modern Paris: Victor Baltard’s Central Markets and the Urban Practice'', University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012 and
*2015 - Richard Harris, ''Building a Market: The Rise of the Home Improvement Industry, 1914-1960'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012
*2016 - Amy F. Ogata, ''Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America.'' University of Minnesota Press, 2013
*2017 - Meredith Cohen, ''The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy: Royal Architecture in Thirteenth-Century Paris.'' Cambridge University Press, 2015
*2018 - Mrinalini Rajagopalan, ''Building Histories: The Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi.'' University of Minnesota Press, 2016 / Kathryn E. O’Rourke, ''Modern Architecture in Mexico City: History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital.'' The University of Chicago Press, 2016
*2019 - Madhuri Desai, ''Banaras Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City.'' University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016
*2020 -
Peter H. Christensen, ''Germany and the Ottoman Railways: Art, Empire and Infrastructure.'' Yale University Press, 2017
*2021 - Nancy Steinhardt, ''Chinese Architecture: A History.'' Princeton University Press, 2019
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Society of Architectural Historians
The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) is an international not-for-profit organization that promotes the study and preservation of the built environment worldwide. Based in Chicago in the United States, the Society's 3,500 members include ...
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Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Henry-Russell Hitchcock (1903–1987) was an American architectural historian, and for many years a professor at Smith College and New York University. His writings helped to define the characteristics of modernist architecture.
Early life
He ...
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List of architecture awards
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