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The Society of Architectural Historians Great Britain (SAHGB) has announced winners of the 2023 SAHGB Awards, including recent Bartlett graduate Eliot Haworth (Architectural History MA, 2023).聽

The Bartlett鈥檚 Architectural History MA is the UK鈥檚 longest established degree in the historical, theoretical and critical interpretation of architecture, cities, urban spaces, creative practices and their representations.

About the prize

The SAHGB鈥檚 internationally prestigious awards programme celebrates the best in research and publishing in architectural history. The Dissertation Prize is the top prize for graduate research into architectural history in the UK, celebrating outstanding work by postgraduate students in taught Master鈥檚 programmes. The prize also recognises innovative work which supports SAHGB鈥檚 aim to further the knowledge of architectural history.

There are two categories of the Dissertation Prize to acknowledge the differences in the educational structures of different programmes.聽

• Category 1 celebrates Dissertations written as part of a taught MA/MSc programme in Architectural History, Heritage or Conservation.
• Category 2 honours dissertations submitted at MArch and MSc programmes researching questions of architectural history as a broader field.

鈥淭hings Get In鈥�. A Study of arthropod life at the Couvent Sainte Marie de la Tourette.

Eliot Haworth won the Category 1 award for his work titled 鈥�鈥�, judged by Dr Katrione Byrne (Birmingham City University), Neil Gregory (Historic Environment Scotland), and Dr Matthew Wells (Manchester School of Architecture).聽

Commenting on Eliot's work, the judging panel said:聽

鈥�'Things Get In'聽is a wonderfully innovative exploration of arthropod life within Le Corbusier鈥檚 the Couvent Sainte-Marie de la Tourette in 脡veux, France. Using the framework of the interior as a physically porous space that reinforces separation between human and nonhuman, this research focuses on arthropodal presence within the building to disturb the notion of the bounded interior. It shows how, by looking at such a well-known project afresh, new knowledges about architecture and its histories can be unearthed. In developing and testing a methodology for studying the lives of arthropods in and around La Tourette it produces a wider ethical and political sensibility that suggests buildings, and by extension human lives, are enmeshed within a wider ecology and not separable from it. 鈥淭hings Get In鈥� explores and unearths possible pathways for situating architecture within a context that, as the author puts it, 鈥榠s always more than human.鈥澛�

Eliot was nominated for the award by Dr Robin Wilson, Co-Director of the Architectural History programme at The Bartlett School of Architecture.

More information

• Find out more about the Architectural History MA

Lead image: South elevation of Le Corbusier鈥檚 Couvent de Sainte-Marie de la Tourette outside the village of Eveaux, France.

Slideshow images:聽Views from the windows of La Tourette, interrupted by various arthropod species. Photographs by Eliot Haworth.