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Professor Jianfei Zhu's Routledge Handbook of Chinese Architecture shortlisted for Colvin Prize

The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain have announced the shortlist

8 August 2023

The Colvin Prize, established in 2017, is awarded to an outstanding work of reference of value to the discipline irrespective of format. The awards are overseen by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain to reward work that is innovative, ambitious and rigorous in tackling histories of the built environment as broadly conceived. 

Professor Jianfei Zhu is one of the editors of the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Architecture: Social Production of Buildings and Spaces in History which has been shortlisted for this prestigious prize. 

Colvin Prize shortlist 

  • John Boughton, A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates  (RIBA Publishing) 

  • Jiat-Hwee Chang, Justin Zhuang, and Darren Soh (photographer), Everyday Modernism: Architecture and Society in Singapore  (National University of Singapore Press) 

  • Jane Grenville, Yorkshire: North Riding (Pevsner Buildings of England series) (Yale University Press) 

  • Editors: Neal Shasore and Jessica Kelly,  Reconstruction: Architecture, Society and the Aftermath of the First World War (Bloomsbury Publishing) 

  • Editors: Jianfei Zhu, Chen Wei, Li Hua,  Routledge Handbook of Chinese Architecture: Social Production of Buildings and Spaces in History  (Routledge)

The winners will be selected in the autumn and celebrated at the Society’s Annual Awards Ceremony in December 2023. 

 

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The Colvin Prize

The Colvin Prize is awarded annually to the author or authors of an outstanding work of reference that relates to the field of architectural history, broadly conceived. All modes of publication are eligible, including catalogues, gazetteers, digital databases and online resources. It is named in honour of Sir Howard Colvin, a former president of the Society, and one of the most eminent scholars in architectural history of the twentieth century. The prize was inaugurated in 2017; winners receive a commemorative medal designed by contemporary medallist Abigail Burt. 

Dr Elizabeth Darling (Chair of SAHGB + panel chair);

Judging panel: Professor Richard Brook (Manchester School of Architecture); Professor Louise Campbell (University of Warwick); Dr Laura Fernández-González (University of Lincoln); Dr. Samantha Martin (University College, Dublin); Professor Simon Pepper (University of Liverpool)