Architects’ Company Book Awards 2025
We are delighted to announce that Lund Humphries books have won in three categories of the Architects’ Company Book Awards 2025. Congratulations to all the winning authors!
WINNER CATEGORY: Biography
Judges: Chris Foges, Jo Bacon, Sarah Jackson
The Master Builder: William Butterfield and His Times, by Nicholas Olsberg
An exceptional work of scholarship and presentation, offering a richly detailed and beautifully produced study of one of Victorian England’s most distinctive architects. Lavish in its use of archival illustrations and supported by James Morris’ striking new photography, the book reveals a deep passion for its subject and an impressive command of historic material. While substantial and densely detailed, it remains an accessible and engaging overview that will inspire greater interest in Butterfield’s remarkable architectural legacy.
WINNER CATEGORY: Building Monograph
Judges: Catherine Croft, Niall McLaughlin, Robert Wilson
Hans Hollein’s Masterpiece, Art, Architecture and the City, by Eva Branscome
We highly recommend Eva Branscome’s book. It is a study of the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, which opened in 1982. It draws on in-depth research, including interviews with the architect. It is well presented and illustrated. It explores the relationship between architecture and conceptual art in a convincing way. (It is hard now to recall the huge impact this piece of art-architecture had on museology and architecture as a whole – but it certainly did.)
CATEGORY: Special Prize: Urbanism and Planning
Judge: Paul Finch
Winner:
Kings Cross: The Making of a Masterplan, by Bob Allies, Robert Evans, Graham Morrison and Demetri Porphyrios
This is an exemplary account of the creation of London’s most significant new quarter since the 19th century, by the people who made it happen. The client/architect/planning collaboration which created New King’s Cross is reflected in the collaboration that produced a book which has lessons for all interested in urban regeneration.
