Urban Planning in Nazi Germany

Attack, triumph, terror in the European context 1933-1945

Herausgeber
  • Harald Bodenschatz
  • Victoria Grau
  • Christiane Post
  • Max Welch Guerra
Berlin: DOM publishers, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-86922-932-4

Architecture Book Award 2025 for "Urban Planning in Nazi Germany"

Our book "Urban Planning in Nazi Germany" (German edition: "Städtebau im Nationalsozialismus") received the Architecture Book Award 2025 for the category: History on 27 November 2025 in London.

The prize was awarded by the World Architecture Festival (Miami), the Temple Bar Trust and The Architects’ Company (London). The World Architecture Festival (WAF) is home to "the world’s largest live-judged architecture awards". The Temple Bar Trust "celebrates the architecture in the City of London through talks and walking tours, and supports greater diversity in architecture." The Architects’ Company „promotes quality architecture in the City of London and the architectural profession globally; it supports education through awards and prizes as well as a range of charities related to the City."

The jury was composed of Murray Frazer, Simon Henley and Cindy Walters. Murray Frazer is Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL). In 2018 he received the Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Fraser is Chair of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. Simon Henley is founding director of architects Henley Halebrown. He has taught at several universities and is Chair of the RIBA Awards Group (2024–2025), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Brother of the Art Workers Guild. He joined the Board of Trustees of Docomomo UK in 2025. Cindy Walters is an Australian architect and partner at Walters & Cohen in London. She has been responsible for a variety of projects in the UK and abroad. She received many awards, among them in 2012 the AJ Woman Architect of the Year Award. In 2019–2023 she was chair of the Architecture Foundation.

The award statement was presented by Paul Finch at the award ceremony in London on 27 November 2025. Paul Finch is Director of the World Architecture Festival and was formerly one of the leading architectural journalists in the UK.

The jury justified the award for our book as follows:

"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-20th 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."

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  • 25.07.2024. RC21, The politics and spaces of encounters: advancing dialogues between and within the Global North and the Global South. Conference in Santiago de Chile.
  • 07.08.2024. Estudiando el urbanismo de regímenes de ultra-derecha. Experiencias europeas. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
  • 08.08.2024. Análisis del urbanismo del nazismo: instrumento de dominio y aniquilamiento. Kultur Intensiv. Goethe-Institut Buenos Aires. [Link]
  • 03.07.2025. (Un)Disputed Space? Testimonies of European Cultures of Remembrance. Conference: International Forum on Urbanism. Universidade de Lisboa (Lissabon).

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