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Architecture Book Award 2025

Urban Planning in Nazi Germany (German edition: Städtebau im Nationalsozialismus) received the Architecture Book Award 2025 in the category 'History' on 27 November 2025 in London. This prize was awarded by the World Architecture Festival (Miami), the Temple Bar Trust and The Architects' Company (London).

Perhaps not an obvious topic for a prize-winning book, this huge and impressively edited volume describes in a clear straightforward manner the full gamut of urban planning under Hitler’s regime. Part of a series of similar studies into mid-20^th-century totalitarianism, it is both exhaustive and terrifying in equal measure. It is commendable that these German scholars were willing to look at this dark historical period with such rigour and candour: other nations should likewise be scrutinising their own unsavoury built heritage.

Judges: Murray Frazer, Simon Henley, Cindy Walters

Source: The Architects' Company