DAM Architectural Book Award

Publication of the award winners / legal stipulations
In case of being awarded, about six (to ten) additional copies of the award-winning books must be made available free of charge to DAM for the presentations at international German collective stands of the Frankfurter Buchmesse.
For the presentation of the awarded architecture book the cover and significant (double) pages from the publication (book contents) must be made available to Deutsches Architekturmuseum as a file in PDF or JPG format.
The participants declare themselves to be in agreement with the presentation of the submitted architecture books at the Frankfurter Buchmesse.
In case being awarded the sender shall declare themselves to be in agreement with:
- the award-winning book being presented at the DAM stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair and at additional book fairs worldwide through the Frankfurter Buchmesse
- the award winners being presented in DAM
- the cover and book contents, as well as illustrations from the book being published on the DAM website.
Furthermore the sender shall declare that he is the owner of all the relevant requisite rights. In the event of claims for fees being made by third parties the sender shall exempt Deutsches Architekturmuseum from the cost of any legal action and / or the cost of subsequent demands for fees made by third parties.
Deutsches Architekturmuseum in collaboration with Frankfurter Buchmesse is the organizer of the DAM Architecural Book Award.
With kind support of the Gesellschaft der Freunde des DAM e.V. (Friends of DAM)
Deadlines
Submission deadline: February 1 – July 31, 2025
Jury meeting (not public): Thursday, August 14, 2025
Award ceremony (public and hybrid): Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 7 p.m., Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)
Exhibition of the awarded books at the Frankfurt book fair:
October 16 — 19, 2025
Please send submissions to:
Deutsches Architekturmuseum DAM
DAM Architectural Book Award 2025
z.H. Confiyet Aydin
Hedderichstraße 108-110
D – 60596 Frankfurt am Main
CONTACT FOR INQUIRIES
Rebekka Kremershof
Phone:+49 69 212 31076
E-Mail: DAM.bookaward@stadt-frankfurt.de
Confiyet Aydin
Phone: +49 69 212 31075
E-mail: DAM.bookaward@stadt-frankfurt.de