Architecture Book of the Year Award 2024

A special recognition for Park Books: The jury has just announced that Modern Buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich  and The Art of Architectural Grafting have won the 2024 Architecture Book of the Year Award 2024 in the categories «City/Country Architectural Guide» and «Technical». We are delighted and send our congratulations to all who contributed to this outstanding achievement!

Modern Buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich is based on an extensive research project by architect Ana Francisco Sutherland. It analyzes and celebrates outstanding buildings by well-known architects such as Eric Lyons, Patrick Gwynne, Peter Moro, Walter Greaves, and Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, alongside works by lesser-known firms. A total of 64 individual buildings and housing developments by 38 architects are featured with images, plans, and concise texts.

In The Art of Architectural Grafting, Jeanne Gang, one of America’s most distinguished contemporary architects, proposes applying the plant cultivation technique of grafting to architecture and urban design as a way of rethinking adaptive reuse and combatting climate change. Grafting is the process of connecting two separate living plants—one old and one new—so they can grow and thrive as one. This ancient practice continues to be performed today in search of more fruitful, palatable, and resilient varieties of plants.