The prize is awarded by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain to encourage new and unpublished entrants to the field of architectural history, the Society's Essay Medal is awarded annually to the author of the best essay submitted in competition and is open to British and international graduate students as well as postdocs.
Nicholas Frayne was awarded the Hawksmoor Medal for the essay Nyayo House as a Political Tool: The Politics of Temporal Control and Thomas Joashi was commended forthe work Staging a Tragedy: On the Refurbishment of the Louvre and the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre(1572).
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