Every year the Society presents six awards to honor the most distinguished publications in architectural history:
Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award
The Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award was established in 1949 to recognize annually the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar.
2012 Hitchock Award Winner:
Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award
Presented by the Society of Architectural Historians for excellence in published exhibition catalogs.
2012 Johnson Award Winner:
Antoinette Forrester Downing Award
Presented by the Society of Architectural Historians for the outstanding publication devoted to historical issues in the preservation field.
2012 Downing Award Winner:
Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award
Presented by the Society of Architectural Historians for distinguished scholarship in the history of landscape architecture or garden design.
2012 MacDougall Award Winner:
Spiro Kostof Book Award
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 change.
2012 Kostof Award Winner:
Founders' JSAH Article Award
Presented by the Society of Architectural Historians for the best article on the history of architecture published by an emerging scholar in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.
2012 Founders' Award Winner - David Rifkind.