DAM Architectural Book Award for the ten best architectural books in 2024 bestowed
DAM Architectural Book Award for the ten best architectural books in 2024 bestowed
The Frankfurt Book Fair and Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) are presenting the jointly initiated international DAM Architectural Book Award for the sixteenth 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 2024 are:
- EP \ Viana de Lima / Monade
- Erieta Attali Kengo Kuma- Mirror in the Mirror / Hartmann Books
- Was wäre wenn – Ungebaute Architektur in der Schweiz/ What if – Unbuild Architecture in Switzerland / Christoph Merian Verlag
- Polylemma / Jovis Verlag
- Thinking and building on shaky ground – On Architecture in seismic Regions / Birkhäuser Verlag
- Wild Site / Point Nemo Publishing
- Researching otherwise – Pluriversal methodologies for landscape and urban studies / GTA Verlag
- Tane Garden House / Vitra Design Museum
- Rom – Häuser der Stadt 1920 -1980 / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König
- Das Bewusstsein des Ortes / Quart Verlag
The prize, unique in its kind and now highly regarded, honors the best architectural books of a year.
74 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 170 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 August 15, 2024 at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM). The winners were honored during the award ceremony on October 17, 2024 at DAM OSTEND.
