The Alice Davis Hitchcock Book 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."[1][1] 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.
The Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, established in 1959, is awarded to the author of a literary work that provides an "outstanding contribution to the study of architectural history". The recipient(s) must be British, or the book must deal with an element of the architectural history of Britain or the Commonwealth. The medallion is a
Wedgwood portrait of James ‘Athenian’ Stuart.[2]
1953 - Thomas Howarth. Charles Rennie Macintosh and the Modern Movement. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1952.
1954 -
Henry-Russell Hitchcock. 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 Conant. 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. Ackerman. The Architecture of Michelangelo. London: Zwemmer, 1961.
1962 -
George Kubler. Art and Architecture of Ancient America. New York: Penguin Books, 1962.
1963 -
Robert Branner. La Cathedrale de Bourges. Paris: Tardy, 1962.
1964 -
Alan Gowans. 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 Krautheimer. 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 Lehmann. Samothrace, Volume III: The Hieron. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.
1970 -
Franklin Toker. The Church of Notre Dame in Montreal. Montreal: McGill University Press, 1970.
1971 - (no award given)
1972 -
H. Allen Brooks. 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 Olmsted. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.
1975 -
Rudolf Wittkower. Gothic vs. Classic, Architectural Projects in Seventeenth-Century Italy. New York: G. Braziller, 1974.
2005 -
Jordan Sand, House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930. Harvard University Asia Center Publications, 2003.
2007 - John Archer, Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690–2000. University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
2008 - Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon, The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
2009 - Abigail A. Van Slyck, A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890-1960. University of Minnesota Press, 2006; and, Honorable Mention to Steven Nelson. Cameroon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture In and Out of Africa. University of Chicago Press, 2007.
2010 - Cammy Brothers, Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture. Yale University Press, 2008.
2011 - Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics. Yale University Press, 2009.
2012 - Michelangelo Sabatino, Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy. University of Toronto Press, 2010.
2014 - John Harwood, The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976, University of Minnesota Press, 2011
2015 - Christopher Curtis Mead, Making Modern Paris: Victor Baltard’s Central Markets and the Urban Practice, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012 and
2015 - Richard Harris, Building a Market: The Rise of the Home Improvement Industry, 1914-1960, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012
2016 - Amy F. Ogata, Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America. University of Minnesota Press, 2013
2017 - Meredith Cohen, The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy: Royal Architecture in Thirteenth-Century Paris. Cambridge University Press, 2015
2018 - Mrinalini Rajagopalan, Building Histories: The Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi. University of Minnesota Press, 2016 / Kathryn E. O’Rourke, Modern Architecture in Mexico City: History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital. The University of Chicago Press, 2016
2019 - Madhuri Desai, Banaras Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016
2020 -
Peter H. Christensen, Germany and the Ottoman Railways: Art, Empire and Infrastructure. Yale University Press, 2017
2021 - Nancy Steinhardt, Chinese Architecture: A History. Princeton University Press, 2019
2022 - Ünver Rüstem, Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul. Princeton University Press, 2019
2023 - Andrew Demshuk, Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021
2024 - Subhashini Kaligotla, Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India. Yale University Press, 2022