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Dutch Dikes wins DAM Architectural Book Award 2015

 

Informal Market Worlds Atlas on the shortlist
No less than two nai010 publications have been awarded the DAM Architectural Book Award 2015. Dutch Dikes is one of the ten best architecture books of the year. Informal Market Worlds Atlas is on the shortlist. The prize giving ceremony will be held on October 14, 2015 in the library at Deutsches Architekturmuseum; all award-winning books will be presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair from October 15 to 18, 2015 (Hall 4.1, Zentrum Bild, Stand K 106).

The Jury on Dutch Dikes
Everything you didn’t (yet) want to know about dikes! The ultimate Dutch dike atlas is a beautifully designed work about the foundations of the Netherlands as a country and its greatest invention. All – really all – aspects of the topic are examined exhaustively, but at the same time in a refreshing way. The young landscape planners LOLA, who last year were one of the ten prize winners, present the 40 most important dikes using wonderful illustrations and graphics, and endless series of photos. Splendidly produced by NAI010 Publishers as a large-format 344-page hardcover for € 49.50.

About Dutch Dikes
Dutch Dikes offers a complete overview of the Netherlands’ most important invention: the dike. Because what would the Netherlands be without these feats of engineering? One thing is certain: it would not exist in its current form. For more than 2,000 years, dikes have kept the land dry. What once began with mounds and culverts is now a network of more than 22,500 km of dikes, dams and dike relics. Dikes are the framework of the Dutch landscape and hold an important role in daily life: the Dutch live in dike houses along the Waalbandijk, spend weekends cycling along the winding Westfriese Omringdijk and visit the monument on the Afsluitdijk.

Dutch Dikes already won a D&AD Pencil Award 2015, the Best Dutch Book Design 2015, and was nominated for the Golden Tulip Award for best informative book. LOLA landscape architects, the authors of Dutch Dikes, also won the Rotterdam-Maaskant Prize for Young Architects 2013 and the Topos Landscape Award 2014.