DAM Architectural Book Award for the ten best architectural books in 2023 bestowed
The Frankfurt Book Fair and Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) are presenting the jointly initiated international DAM Architectural Book Award for the fifteenth time.
The DAM would like to thank the Society of Friends of the DAM for its generous support of the prize.
The ten winners of 2023 are:
- StadtLand Perspektiven: Für eine neue Raumkultur (in Kombination mit) StadtLand Projekte: Für eine neue Raumpraxis / M Books
- Architecture of the Territory – Constructing National Narratives in the Arab World / Kaph Books
- Atlas des Dazwischenwohnens: Wohnbedürfnisse jenseits der Türschwelle / Park Books
- Stadtwerdung im Zeitraffer: Die Fotografische Langzeitbeobachtung Schlieren 2005 – 2020 zeigt, wie sich das Schweizer Mittelland entwickelt / Scheidegger & Spiess
- System und Serie: Systembau in der Schweiz – Geschichte und Erhaltung / gta Verlag ETH Zürich
- Besser als neu: Wie man eine Bürofassade emissionsarm und zirkular saniert / Ruby Press
- The Renewal of Dwelling: European Housing Construction 1945 – 1975 / Triest Verlag
- Armando Ruinelli Architekten: Bauten 1982 – 2022. Leggere il tempo / Park Books
- Innenputz / Park Books
- Henrik Spohler – Flatlands / Hartmann Books
The prize, unique in its kind and now highly regarded, honors the best architectural books of a year. 102 architectural and art book publishers from all over the world accepted the joint invitation to participate. A jury made up of external experts and representatives of DAM met to select the year’s ten best architectural books from 245 entries. They based their decision on criteria such as design, content, quality of material and finishing, innovation, and topicality.
The jury meeting took place on September 12, 2023 at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM). The winners were chosen during the award ceremony on October 18, 2023 at DAM OSTEND.
This year the external jury comprised:
Kathrin Siebert (Architektin), Ellen Schulte (Gestalterin), Markus Bredt (Fotograf), Danny Lettkemann (Architekt und Mitglied der Freunde des DAM e.V.), Friederike Meyer (Chefredakteurin bei der Zeitschrift BauNetz) und Reinhard Neumann (Buchhändler bei Georg Büchner Buchladen)
The internal jurors were:
Andrea Jürges (Stellvertretende Direktorin DAM), Annette Becker (Kuratorin DAM)
The wide range of topics and the high standard of the entries presented the jury with an enormous challenge. For this reason, the jurors once again decided not only to pick ten prize winners, but also to select a further ten entries for the Shortlist of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2023.
