Check out the SAH 2017 Publication + Film and Video Award-winning titles

By Justine Testado|

Friday, Jun 9, 2017

Craving a new architectural history book or film to consume? Perhaps you'll want to start with the Society of Architectural Historians' 2017 award-winning titles. Every year, the SAH honors the art of storytelling of the built environment in the Publication Awards and the Award for Film and Video. The Publication Awards recognize the best published narratives on architectural history, urban history, landscape history and historic preservation scholarship, as well as architectural exhibition catalogues. The Award for Film and Video program highlights distinguished works of film and video on the history of the built environment, with no geographic or political boundaries limiting subject matter or production team.

The SAH presented the awards during the 70th Annual International Conference Awards Ceremony at the University of Strathclyde's Barony Hall in Glasgow on June 8. Take a gander at this year's winning titles below.

PUBLICATION AWARD WINNERS

Founders’ JSAH Article Award - Recognizing an article published by an emerging scholar in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians that exhibits excellence of scholarship and presentation

Dustin Valen, “On the Horticultural Origins of Victorian Glasshouse Culture,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 75, no. 4 (December 2016): 403–423.

Spiro Kostof Book Awards - Recognizes a work in a discipline related to urban history that has made the greatest contribution to our understanding of historical development and change

Marta Gutman, “A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850–1950” (The University of Chicago Press, 2014)

Sarah Lynn Lopez, “The Remittance Landscape: Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA” (The University of Chicago Press, 2015)

Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award - Honoring the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar

Meredith Cohen, “The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy: Royal Architecture in Thirteenth-Century Paris” (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award - Honoring excellence in a published work devoted to historical topics in preservation

Richard Longstreth, “Looking beyond the Icons: Midcentury Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism” (University of Virginia Press, 2015)

Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Awards - Recognizing excellence of architectural history scholarship in exhibition catalogue

Benjamín Ibarra Sevilla, “El Arte de la Cantería Mixteca” (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2014)

Barry Bergdoll, Carlos Eduardo Comas, Jorge Francisco Liernur, and Patricio del Real, eds., “Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980” (The Museum of Modern Art, 2015)

Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award - Recognizing the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of landscape architecture or garden design

Elizabeth McKellar, “Landscapes of London: The City, the Country, and the Suburbs, 1660–1840” (Yale University Press, 2013)

AWARD FOR FILM AND VIDEO WINNER:

Poster of “Talking to My Father Loopline Film, 2015”. Filmmaker: Sé Merry Doyle

Title: “Talking to My Father” Loopline Film, 2015
Filmmaker: Sé Merry Doyle
Run time: 90 minutes

You can watch an excerpt of the film at the bottom of this post.

HONORABLE MENTIONS

“Tower House” sixpackfilm, 2013
Filmmaker: Karl-Heinz Klopf
Run time: 62 minutes

“A Tropical House” sixpackfilm, 2015
Filmmaker: Karl-Heinz Klopf
Run time: 51 minutes

Images courtesy of Society of Architectural Historians.

Extract of 'Talking to My Father' by Sé Merry Doyle.

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