Past Recipients

SAH Exhibition Catalogue Award Recipients


2022  Cloé Pitiot and Nina Stritzler-Levine, Editors, Eileen Gray, Bard Graduate Center, 2020
2022  Honorable Mention: Luca Guido, Stephanie Pilat, and Angela Person, Editors, Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture, University of Oklahoma Press, 2020
2021  Martino Stierli and Vladimir Kulić, Toward A Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980 (The Museum of Modern Art, 2018)
2021  Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo, and Rami el Samahy, Imagining the Modern: Architecture and Urbanism of the Pittsburgh Renaissance (The Monacelli Press, 2019)
2020 Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher and Joseph Becker, editors, The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2018)
2019  Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Dieter Bogner, Maria Lind, Barbel Vischer, editors, Friedrich Kiesler Lebenswelten / Life Visions: Architektur Kunst Design / Architecture Art Design (MAK / Birkhäuser, 2016) 
2018  Nina Stritzler-Levine and Timo Riekko, Editors, Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World (Bard Graduate Center, New York with The Alvar Aalto Foundation, Helsinki, 2016) 
2017  Barry Bergdoll, Carlos Eduardo Comas, Jorge Francisco Liernur, and Patricio del Real, Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980 (The Museum of Modern Art, 2015) 
2017  Benjamín Ibarra Sevilla, El Arte de la Cantería Mixteca (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2014) 
2016  Katherine A. Bussard, Alison Fisher, and Greg Foster-Rice, The City Lost & Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980 (Yale University Press, 2014) 
2015 Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin and Georges Farhat, André Le Nôtre in Perspective (Paris: Éditions Hazan, 2013; distributed in the U.S. by Yale University Press)
2015 Honorable Mention: Susan Weber, William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain (New Haven and London: Yale University Press and the Bard Graduate Center, 2013)
2014 Corinne Bélier, Barry Bergdoll, and Marc Le Coeur, Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light (The Museum of Modern Art, Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Bibliothèque nationale de France,2012)
2013 Anthony Vidler, James Frazer Stirling, Notes from the Archive (Canadian Centre for Architecture, Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press, 2010)
2012 Michael Snodin, editor, with the assistance of Cynthia Roman, Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill (Yale University Press; The Yale Center for British Art; The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 2009)
2011 Andrew Blauvelt, Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes (Walker Art Center, 2008)
2010 Barry Bergdoll and Peter Christensen, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling (The Museum of Modern Art, 2008)
2009 No award given this year
2008 Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen and Donald Albrecht, eds., Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future (Yale University Press, 2006)
2007 Richard L. Burger and Lucy C. Salazar, eds., Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas (Yale University Press, 2004)
2006 Honorable Mention: John Ethan Hankins and Steven Maklansky, Raised to the Trade: Creole Building Arts of New Orleans (New Orleans Museum of Art: 2002)
2005 Susan Soros and Catherine Arbuthnott, Thomas Jeckyll: Architect and Designer, 1827-1881 (Yale University Press, 2003)
2004 Timothy O. Benson with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Central European Avant-Gardes (Distributed by MIT Press, 2002)
2003 Dietrich Neumann, Richard Neutra's Windshield House (Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museums and Yale University Press, 2001)
2002 Sibel Bozdogan, Modernism and Nation-Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001)
2002 Barry Bergdoll and Terence Riley, eds., Mies in Berlin (New York: Museum of Modern Art, Harry N. Abrams, 2001)
2001 Alex Krieger and David Cobb, eds., with Amy Turner, Mapping Boston (Boston: The MIT Press, 1999)
2000 Susan Weber Soros, ed., Bard Graduate Center and Yale University Press, E.W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)
1999 Donald Albrecht, the Library of Congress and the Vitra Design Museum, The Work of Charles and Ray Eames (New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishing, 1997)
1998 John Zukowsky and the Art Institute of Chicago, Building for Air Travel: Architecture and Design for Commercial Aviation (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago; Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1996)
1997 Steven Fine and Yeshiva University Museum, Sacred Realm: The Emergence of the Synagogue (Oxford University Press, 1996)
1996 James F. O'Gorman and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, The Perspective of Anglo-American Architecture (Philadelphia: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1995)
1995 John Harris and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The Palladian Revival: Lord Burlington, His Villa and Garden in Chiswick (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994)
1994 John Zukowsky and The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Architecture and Design 1923-1993 (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago; Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1993)
1993 David Brownlee and David De Long for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Louis Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture (Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art; New York: Rizzoli International, 1991)
1993 Charles E. Brownell, Calder C. Loth, William S. Rasmussen, and Richard Guy Wilson for the Virginia Museum of Arts, The Making of Virginia Architecture (Richmond: The Virginia Museum of Arts, 1992)
1992 No award given this year
1991 Eve Blau and Edward Kaufman, eds., and The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Architecture and Its Image: Four Centuries of Architectural Representation, Works from the Collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal: The Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1989)
1990 Elizabeth A.T. Smith and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1989)
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