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RIBA Book Award Winner

Posted: 25/05/2007

The annual RIBA International Book Awards aim to highlight the rising influence and standard of architectural writing and publishing. They celebrate the important contribution writing makes to the dynamic activity of creating buildings and transforming the landscape in which we live.

Over 200 books from the UK and abroad, were submitted for the Awards but just two books specifically about green building made the seven-book shortlist for RIBA’s International Book Award for Construction for 2007.

These were the ‘Green Building Bible’ (3rd edition, in 2 volumes), edited by Keith Hall and published by the Green Building Press and ‘Strategies for Sustainable Architecture’ by Paola Sassi and published by Taylor and Francis. However, the final winner of the award, was ‘Stone Conservation: Principles and Practice by Alison Henry’ published by Donhead Publishing.

The chairman of the judging panel, Max Fordham, said about the winning title: “Here is a book which is both specialist and technical, an edited collection of pieces with a message. ‘Stone Conservation’ is a winner because it fits the brief; it is about building construction, conservation and refurbishment. Above all of this there is a passionate dedication to the topic which, although it is a collection of pieces by different authors, shines out through proper writing.”

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