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RIBA extends prize

07.05.08 Anna Richardson

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the shortlists for this year's RIBA International Book Awards, adding two new categories to proceedings.

The new categories are for interior design and architectural practice and will join existing categories in architecture and constructions. 

Winners will be announced on 28th May, with winning publishers receiving a RIBA Trophy and authors presented with a cheque for £1,000.

 

SHORTLISTS IN FULL

International Book Award for Interior Design
 
Moving Rooms: the Trade in Architecture Salvage by John Harris (Yale UP/The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
Paint & Paper: a Masterclass in Colour and Light by David Oliver (Conran Octopus)
Light in Architecture by Mireia Vergés (Tectum)
Moderne: Fashioning the French Interior by Sarah Schleuning and Jeremy Aynsley (Princeton Architectural Press)
Paul T Frankl & Modern American Design by Christopher Long (Yale UP)
Kelly Hoppen Home by Kelly Hoppen/Helen Chislett (Jacqui Small)

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner International Book Award for Architecture

Architecture and the 'Special Relationship’ by Murray Fraser, Joe Kerr (Taylor & Francis)
Architecture or Techno-Utopia by Felicity Scott (MIT)
From Agit-Prop to Free Space by Cedric Price, Stanley Matthews (Black Dog)
Russian Architecture and the West by Dmitry Shvidkovsky (Yale UP)
Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City by Fabrizio Nevola (Yale UP)

Sir Robert McAlpine International Book Award for Construction

The Architecture of Parking by Simon Henley (Thames and Hudson)
Exploring Boundaries: the Architecture of  Wilkinson Eyre by Peter Davie/Kurt W Forster (Birkhauser Verlag)
Green Oak in Construction by Peter Ross et al (TRADA Technology)
Jean Rondelet: The Architect as Technician by Marie-Noelle Baudouin-Matuszek/Robin Middleton (Yale UP)
Strange Details by Michael Cadwell (MIT)

International Book Award for Architectural Practice

Carlos Ferrater: Office of Architecture Barcelona by Carlos Ferrater (Manel Padaura)
Colin St John Wilson: Buildings & Projects by Colin St John Wilson et al (Black Dog)
Foster 40: 40 Years, 40 Projects, 40 Themes by Norman Foster/David Jenkins (ed) (Prestel)
Patent Constructions: New Architecture Made in Catalonia by Albert Ferre (Actar)
Project Management Demystified 3e by G Reiss (Taylor and Francis)
Spain Architects: Works by Manel Padura (ed) (Manel Padura)
Strange Details by Michael Cadwell (MIT)
Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture & Planning by Daniel Willmas (John Wiley)
Transformations: The Architecture of Penoyre and Prasad by Greg Penoyre, Sunand Presad (Black Dog)
Verb 5 Natures (Actar)
Vicens+Ramos Twenty Years by Ignatio Vicens, Jose Natonio Ramos (Editorial Pencil)
Work of Cepezed: Prototypes and Catalogue by Piet Vollaard (OIO Publishers)

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