Spiro Kostof Book Award

Given by Society of Architectural Historians

40 Works 913 Books 3 Reviews ½ 4.0
Presented by the Society of Architectural Historians for the work that, focusing on urbanism and architecture, provides the greatest contribution to our understanding of historical development and show more change. Website show less
Stages:
All, Winner (35), Honorable Mention (5)
Years:
All, 2023 (1), 2022 (2), 2021 (1), 2020 (2), 2019 (1), 2018 (2), 2017 (2), 2016 (2), 2015 (2), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (2), 2011 (2), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (2), 2004 (1), 2003 (2), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (2), 1998 (2), 1997 (2), 1996 (1), 1994 (1)

Winner 35

WorkYear
Cuzco: Incas, Spaniards, and the Making of a Colonial City by Michael J Schreffler2023
Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway by Despina Stratigakos2022
The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age by Zachary J. Violette2021
Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (Architektonisches Wissen) by Samia Henni2020
Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome by Pamela O. Long2020
Seizing Jerusalem: The Architectures of Unilateral Unification (A Quadrant Book) by Alona Nitzan-Shiftan2019
The Genesis of Roman Architecture by John North Hopkins2018
A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950 by Marta Gutman2017
The Remittance Landscape: Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA by Sarah Lynn Lopez2017
The social project : housing postwar France by Kenny Cupers2016
I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo2015
The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal: Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin by Christopher Klemek2014
Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture by Sheila Crane2013
The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City by Katherine Wentworth Rinne2012
Constantinopolis/Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital (Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies) by Çiğdem Kafescioğlu2011
Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic by Dell Upton2011
Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914 by Zeynep Çelik2010
The Modern American House: Spaciousness and Middle-Class Identity by Sandy Isenstadt2009
The Formation of English Gothic: Architecture and Identity, 1150-1250 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) by Peter Draper2008
Modern Architecture and the End of Empire (British Art and Visual Culture Since 1750, New Readings) (British Art and Visual Culture Since 1750, New Readings) by Mark Crinson2006
Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm by Thomas J. Campanella2005
The Birth of City Planning in the United States, 1840-1917 by Jon A. Peterson2005
Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments, and Memories (W.B. Stanford Memorial Lectures) by Susan E. Alcock2004
Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory by Mario Carpo2003
Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City by Matthew Gandy2003
The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 by Max Page2001
The architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934 by Eve Blau2000
City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950 by Richard Longstreth1999
Housing design and society in Amsterdam : reconfiguring urban order and identity, 1900-1920 by Nancy Stieber1999
The architects and the city : Holabird & Roche of Chicago, 1880-1918 by Robert Bruegmann1998
Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis by Greg Hise1998
Auschwitz by Deborah Dwork1997
The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries by Robin Evans1997
The Topkapi Scroll -- Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (Sketchbooks & Albums) by Gülru Necipoğlu1996
Architecture, Power, and National Identity by Lawrence Vale1994

Honorable Mention 5

WorkYear
Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam by Christina Schwenkel2022
Building a World Heritage City: Sanaa, Yemen (Heritage, Culture and Identity) by Michele Lamprakos2018
The City and the King: Architecture and Politics in Restoration London by Christine Stevenson2016
Covert capital : landscapes of denial and the making of U.S. empire in the suburbs of Northern Virginia by Andrew Friedman2015
Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York by Samuel Zipp2012

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