7 February 2019

German Design Award 2019 for the publication Baukunst im Archiv

The book Baukunst im Archiv has been honoured with this year's German Design Award. The award ceremony will take place tomorrow, Friday, 8 February, in Frankfurt/Main. With this 2016 publication released by DOM publishers, the Akademie der Künste has provided the first-ever overview of the archives of architects, engineers, landscape architects, architectural photographers and critics passed down to the Akademie's Architecture Archive. Around 250 years of history come together in this volume, which presents all 71 archives and 80 collections in detail. The jury of the German Design Awards was impressed by the clear and simple design of the book and writes in its statement of reasons: "A publication that has been edited to be interesting both in form and content and wonderfully illustrated, which should be of interest to more than just professionals."
Baukunst im Archiv had already received the DAM Architectural Book Award in 2017.

Publication
German edition
Baukunst im Archiv. Die Sammlung der Akademie der Künste
Eva-Maria Barkhofen im Auftrag der Akademie der Künste (Hg.)
Akademie der Künste, Archive/DOM publishers, Berlin 2016
560 pp., 906 ill.
Paperback edition available for €49 at the Akademie der Künste.
ISBN 978-3-86922-572-2
Or hardcover edition with dust jacket
ISBN 978-3-86922-492-3, €68

English edition
Architecture in Archives. The Collection of the Akademie der Künste
Eva-Maria Barkhofen on behalf of the Akademie der Künste (ed.)
Akademie der Künste, Archive/DOM publishers, Berlin, 2016
560 pp., 906 ill., hardcover
ISBN 978-3-86922-552-4, €68

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