Notes to editors

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2. Shortlist for the RIBA International Book Award for Interior Design

 

•  Moving Rooms: the Trade in Architecture Salvage  by John Harris 

Yale University Press/The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art  

• Paint & Paper: a Masterclass in Colour and Light by David Oliver

Octopus Publishing Group/Conran Octopus

•  Light in Architecture by Mireia Vergés

Tectum Publishers 

• Moderne: Fashioning the French Interior Sarah Schleuning, Jeremy Aynsley

Princeton Architectural Press

• Paul T Frankl & Modern American Design by Christopher Long

Yale University Press  

• Kelly Hoppen Home by Kelly Hoppen/Helen Chislett

Jacqui Small

 

Shortlist for the RIBA Sir Nikolaus Pevsner International Book Award for Architecture

 

• Architecture and the 'Special Relationship' by Murray Fraser, Joe Kerr

Taylor and 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 University Press  

• Siena : Constructing the Renaissance City by Fabrizio Nevola

Yale University Press

 

Shortlist for the RIBA 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

Christopher Mettern, Andrew Holloway

TRADA Technology  

• Jean Rondelet: The Architect as Technician by Marie-Noelle Baudouin-Matuszek, Robin Middleton

Yale University Press  

• Strange Details by Michael Cadwell

MIT Press

 

Shortlist for the RIBA 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, Roger Stonehouse, Eric Parry.

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 Press  

• 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 by Verb

Actar  

• Vicens+Ramos Twenty Years by Ignatio Vicens, Jose Natonio Ramos

Editorial Pencil  

• Work of Cepezed: Prototypes and Catalogue by Piet Vollaard

OIO Publishers

 

 

3. Judges for the RIBA Sir Nikolaus Pevsner International Book Award for Architecture were:

Adrian Forty (chair) , Architectural Historian and Professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Irena Murray, Architectural Historian and Sir Banister Fletcher Director, RIBA British Architectural Library; Diana Periton, Architectural Historian and Head of Architectural History and Theory at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, the Glasgow School of Art; Irenee Scalbert, architecture critic and author; Dalibor Vesely, Architectural Historian and Director (Emeritus) of Graduate Studies, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge and Sarah Wigglesworth, professor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield.

 

Judges for the RIBA Sir Robert McAlpine International Book Award for

Construction were:

Max Fordham [Chair] Principal of Max Fordam LLP, building services engineers;

Will Alsop , architect; Sue Dunster, Manager, ZEDfactory, Bill Dunster Architects; Andrea Deplazes, Professor for Architecture and Construction at the ETH, Zurich; and Edward McAlpine, Project Manager with Sir Robert McAlpine.

 

Judges forthe RIBAInternational Book Award for Interior Design were:

Doug Atherley (Chair), Managing Director of Kinari Design; Tim Benton, Professor of Art History, Open University; Helen Fifield, Managing Director of Design Centre Chelsea Harbour; Jeremy Myerson, Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre and Professor of Deisgn Studies at the RCA and Ghislaine Wood, Curator at the V&A Museum, editor and author.

 

Judges for the RIBA International Book Award for Architectural Practice were:

Dikkie Scipio [Chair], Senior Partner at Claus en Kaan Architecten; Paul Crosby, David Chipperfield Architects; Mrs Kathy Thurman, MCIAT , Managing Director of Teveld Ltd ; John Halton MCIAT, founding Director of John Halton Design Ltd and Adrian Williamson MCIAT, Partner of WM Design LLP

 

RIBA International Book Awards 2008 are supported by Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd, The Sir Nikolaus Pevsner family, The Architectural Review, Building Magazine, The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists, Elle Decoration, OPX, Trilogy, Quba, Neilson BookData, St Austell Printing Company and Mix Future Interiors.

 

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