Alice Davis Hitchcock Award
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The Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, established in 1949, by the Society of Architectural Historians
, annually recognizes "the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar." The oldest of the six different publication awards given annually by the Society, it is named after the mother of architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock
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Society of Architectural Historians
The Society of Architectural Historians is an international not-for-profit organization that promotes the study and preservation of the built environment worldwide....
, annually recognizes "the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar." The oldest of the six different publication awards given annually by the Society, it is named after the mother of architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Henry-Russell Hitchcock was the leading American architectural historian of his generation. A long-time professor at Smith College and New York University, he is best known for writings that helped to define Modern architecture.-Biography:...
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History
- 1949 - Harold WetheyHarold WetheyHarold Edwin Wethey was a prominent art historian. Wethey received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and his doctorate from Harvard. He taught at Bryn Mawr College and Washington University in St...
. Colonial Architecture and Sculpture in Peru. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949.
- 1950 - Rexford NewcombRexford NewcombRexford G. Newcomb was an American academician, architect, and author.-Published works:*Mediterranean Domestic Architecture for the United States, Acanthus Press, October 1999...
. Architecture of the Old Northwest Territory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950.
- 1951 - Anthony Garvan. Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial Connecticut. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951.
- 1952 - Antoinette Downing & Vincent ScullyVincent ScullyVincent Joseph Scully, Jr. is Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and the author of several books on the subject...
. The Architectural Heritage of Newport. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952.
- 1953 - Thomas Howarth. Charles Rennie Macintosh and the Modern Movement. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1952.
- 1954 - Henry-Russell HitchcockHenry-Russell HitchcockHenry-Russell Hitchcock was the leading American architectural historian of his generation. A long-time professor at Smith College and New York University, he is best known for writings that helped to define Modern architecture.-Biography:...
. Early Victorian Architecture in Britain. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954.
- 1955 - Talbot Hamlin. Benjamin H. Latrobe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955.
- 1956 - Carroll L. V. Meeks. The Railroad Station: An Architectural History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956.
- 1957 - Frederick D. Nichols. The Early Architecture of Georgia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1957.
- 1958 - Marcus Whiffen. The Public Buildings of Williamsburg. Colonial Williamsburg, 1958.
- 1959 - Kenneth John ConantKenneth John ConantKenneth John Conant was an American architectural historian specializing in medieval architecture.Conant was born in Neenah, Wisconsin and studied at Harvard University in 1911...
. Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture, 800 to 1200. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1959.
- 1960 - David Coffin. The Villa D'Este at Tivoli. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960.
- 1961 - James S. AckermanJames S. AckermanJames Sloss Ackerman is a prominent American architectural historian, a major scholar of Michelangelo's architecture, of Palladio and of Italian Renaissance architectural theory.-Biography:...
. The Architecture of Michelangelo. London: Zwemmer, 1961.
- 1962 - George KublerGeorge KublerGeorge Alexander Kubler was an American art historian and among the foremost scholars on the art of Pre-Columbian America and Ibero-American Art....
. Art and Architecture of Ancient America. New York: Penguin Books, 1962.
- 1963 - Robert BrannerRobert BrannerRobert Branner was an art historian specializing in Gothic architecture and manuscript illumination. He was born in New York, the son of cartoonist Martin Branner and Edith Fabbrini....
. La Cathedrale de Bourges. Paris: Tardy, 1962.
- 1964 - Alan GowansAlan GowansAlan Gowans was an art historian and university academic. A charismatic teacher and prolific author, his academic specialty was North American architecture, frequently highlighting such unheralded structures as gas stations, restaurants, motels, bungalows and mail-order homes, exploring their...
. Images of American Living, Four Centuries of Architecture and Furniture as Cultural Expression. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964.
- 1965 - John McAndrew. The Open-Air Churches of Sixteenth Century Mexico. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965.
- 1966 - Richard KrautheimerRichard KrautheimerRichard Krautheimer was a 20th century art historian, architectural historian, Baroque scholar, and Byzantinist....
. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1965.
- 1967 - Richard Pommer. Eighteenth-Century Architecture in Piedmont. New York: New York University Press, 1967.
- 1968 - Barbara Miller Lane. Architecture and Politics in Germany, 1918-1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968.
- 1969 - Phyllis Williams LehmannPhyllis Williams LehmannPhyllis Williams Lehmann, was an American classical archaeologist who specialised in the Samothrace temple complex, where she discovered a third statue of "Winged Victory" and recovered missing fingers of the hand of the famous Winged Victory of Samothrace at the Louvre.-Biography:Williams received...
. Samothrace, Volume III: The Hieron. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.
- 1970 - Franklin TokerFranklin TokerFranklin Toker is a professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of eight books on the history of art and architecture, ranging from the excavations he conducted under Santa Reparata, Florence to 21st century American Urbanism. He is a President...
. The Church of Notre Dame in Montreal. Montreal: McGill University Press, 1970.
- 1971 - (no award given)
- 1972 - H. Allen BrooksH. Allen BrooksH. Allen Brooks was an architectural historian and longtime professor at the University of Toronto...
. The Prairie School. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972.
- 1972 - Thomas F. Matthews. The Early Churches of Constantinople: Architecture and Liturgy. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971.
- 1973 - Marvin Trachtenberg. The Campanile of Florence Cathedral, "Giotto's Tower". New York: New York University Press, 1971.
- 1974 - Laura Wood Roper. FLO, A Biography of Frederick Law Olmstead. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.
- 1975 - Rudolf WittkowerRudolf WittkowerRudolf Wittkower was a German art historian.-Biography:He was born in Berlin and moved to London in 1934. He taught at the Warburg Institute, University of London from 1934 to 1956 and then at Columbia University from 1956 to 1969 where he was chairman of the Department of Art History and...
. Gothic vs. Classic, Architectural Projects in Seventeenth-Century Italy. New York: G. Braziller, 1974.
- 1976 - (no award given)
- 1977 - Mary Louise Chirstovich; Sally Kitredge Evans; Betsy Swanson; Roulhac Toledano. The Esplanade Ridge (Vol. V in New Orleans Architecture series). Pelican Publishing, 1977.
- 1978 - Myra Nan Rosenfeld and The Architectural History Foundation. Sebastiano Serlio on Domestic Architecture. New York: Architectural History Foundation, 1978.
- 1979 - Abbott Lowell CummingsAbbott Lowell CummingsAbbott Lowell Cummings is a noted architectural historian and genealogist, best known for his study of New England architecture. He currently lives in South Deerfield, Massachusetts.Cummings was born in St...
. The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979.
- 1979 - Norma Everson. Paris: A Century of Change, 1878-1978. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
- 1980 - Richard KrautheimerRichard KrautheimerRichard Krautheimer was a 20th century art historian, architectural historian, Baroque scholar, and Byzantinist....
. Rome: Profile of a City,312-1308. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.
- 1981 - Franklin Hamilton Hazelhurst. Gardens of Illusion: The Genius of Andre LeNostre. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1980.
- 1982 - Robert Grant IrvingRobert Grant IrvingRobert Grant Irving, Ph.D. is an author and lecturer specializing in the history of art and architecture of Britain and the British Empire. His book Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker, and Imperial Delhi is the story of the creation of New Delhi from 1911 to 1931, the grandest architectural...
. Indian Summer: Luytens, Baker and Imperial Delhi. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
- 1983 - Alberto Pérez-GómezAlberto Pérez-GómezAlberto Pérez-Gómez is an architectural historian and is also known as a theorist and a promoter of phenomenology. Born December 24, 1949 in Mexico City, Mexico, he graduated as an engineer and architect from the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico and pursued graduate studies in the history...
. Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1983.
- 1984 - Paul Venable Turner. Campus: An American Planning Tradition. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984.
- 1985 - David Brownlee. The Law Courts: The Architecture of George Edmund Street. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984.
- 1986 - William L MacDonald. The Architecture of the Roman Empire: An Urban Appraisal. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
- 1987 - Dell Upton. Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987.
- 1988 - David Van ZantenDavid van ZantenDavid van Zanten is an Irish professional association football player who currently plays for St. Mirren. He was born in Ireland to a Dutch father and an Irish mother...
. Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc and Vaudoyer. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987.
- 1989 - David Friedman. Florentine New Towns: Urban Design in the Late Middle Ages. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989.
- 1990 - Anthony Vidler. Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Architecture and Social Reform at the End of the Ancien Regime. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.
- 1991 - Hilary Ballon. The Paris of Henri IV. New York: Architectural History Foundation, 1991.
- 1991 - Patricia Waddy. Seventeenth-Century Roman Palaces. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.
- 1992 - Richard Etlin. Modernism in Italian Architecture, 1890-1940. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991.
- 1994 - Fikret Yegul. Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity. New York: Architectural History Foundation, 1992.
- 1995 - Michael J. Lewis. The Politics of the German Gothic Revival: August Reichensperger. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993.
- 1996 - William J. MacDonald and John PintoJohn PintoJohn Pinto is a Democratic member of the New Mexico Senate, representing the 3rd District since 1977.-External links:* official NM Senate website* profile*Follow the Money - John Pinto** campaign contributions...
. Hadrian's Villa and Its Legacy. New Haven: Yale University PressYale University PressYale University Press is a book publisher founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day. It became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remains financially and operationally autonomous....
, 1995.
- 1997 - Harry Francis Mallgrave. Gottfried Semper Architect of the Nineteenth Century. New Haven: Yale University PressYale University PressYale University Press is a book publisher founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day. It became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remains financially and operationally autonomous....
, 1996.
- 1998 - Joseph RykwertJoseph RykwertJoseph Rykwert is Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, and is widely regarded as the most important architectural historian and critic of his generation. He has spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom and America...
. The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture. Cambridge: MIT PressMIT PressThe MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts .-History:...
, 1996.
- 1999 - Marvin Trachtenberg. Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art & Power in Early Modern Florence. New York: Cambridge University PressCambridge University PressCambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
, 1997.
- 2000 - Alina Payne. The Architectural Treatise in the Renaissance. New York: Cambridge University PressCambridge University PressCambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
, 1999.
- 2001 - Eve Blau. The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934. Cambridge: MIT PressMIT PressThe MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts .-History:...
, 1999.
- 2002 - Sibel Bozdogan. Modernism and Nation-Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.
- 2002 - Isabelle Hyman. Marcel Breuer, Architect. New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001.
- 2003 - Joseph SiryJoseph SiryJoseph M. Siry is a leading American architectural historian and professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Wesleyan University. Siry's publications have focused particularly on the architecture of Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School.Siry received his education at...
. The Chicago Auditorium Building. Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City. Chicago: University of Chicago PressUniversity of Chicago PressThe University of Chicago Press is the largest university press in the United States. It is operated by the University of Chicago and publishes a wide variety of academic titles, including The Chicago Manual of Style, dozens of academic journals, including Critical Inquiry, and a wide array of...
, 2002.
- 2004 - Katherine M. Solomonson. The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition. New York: Cambridge University PressCambridge University PressCambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
, 2001.
- 2005 - Jordan Sand. House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930. Harvard University Asia Center Publications, 2003.
- 2006 - Christine Macy & Sarah Bonnemaison. Architecture and Nature - Creating the American Landscape. Routledge, 2003.
- 2007 - John Archer. Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690–2000. University of Minnesota Press, 2005.