DAM Architectural Book Award 2020

October 21, 2020 – November 1, 2020

The Frankfurt Book Fair and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) are presenting the jointly initiated International DAM Architectural Book Award for the twelfth time. The DAM would like to thank the Society of Friends of the DAM for its generous support of the prize.

The ten prize winners this year are:

• Ludwig Leo: Umlauftank 2 / Spector Books
• Berliner Portraits – Erzählungen zur Architektur der Stadt / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König)
• Behelfsheim / Selbstverlag
• Holz Bau. Timber Architecture in the Early Modern Period of Germany / GADEN Books
• Eileen Gray / Bard Graduate Center
• Design DNA of Mark I:Hong Kong’s Public Housing Prototype / MCCM Creations
• Die Ökonomisierung des Raums. Planen und Bauen in Mittel- und Osteuropa unter den Nationalsozialisten 1938 bis 1945 / DOM Publishers
• Schiphol. Groundbreaking airport design 1967–1975 / nai010 publishers
• Vokabular des Zwischenraums. Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten von Rückzug und Interaktion in dichten Wohngebieten / Park Books
• Quirino de Giorgio An Architect’s Legacy / Park Books

The prize, unique in its kind and now highly respected, honours the best architecture books of a year. 101 architecture and art book publishers worldwide have responded to the joint call. A specialist jury of external experts and representatives of the DAM selected the ten best architecture books of the year from 274 entries according to criteria such as design, content concept, quality of materials and workmanship, degree of innovation and topicality.

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 2020.

• Mapping the Croatian Coast. A RoadTrip to Architectural Legacy of Cold War and Tourism Boom / Jovis
• The Walter Benjamin and Albert S. Project / Jap Sam Books (Niederlande)
• Architektur auf gemeinsamen Boden. Positionen und Modelle zur Bodenfrage / Lars Müller Publisher
• HOUSE FOR SALE / EDIZIONI CORRAINI / CCA Canadian Center for Architecture
• Obra Gruesa / Rough Work / Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Bedeutsame Belanglosigkeiten / Verlag Klaus Wagenbach
• Alvaro Siza Vieira. A pool in the sea. In conversation with Kenneth Frampton / Actar Publishers und IITAC Press
• Le Corbusier: Unité d’habitation „Typ Berlin“: Konstruktion und Kontext / Jovis
• Eine Geschichte des gemeinschaftlichen Wohnens: Modelle des Zusammenlebens / Birkhäuser
• Carrousel Confessions Confusion 1 & Carrousel Confessions Confusion 2 / Studio Jan De Vylder together with Koenig Books