What a great honour! On Wednesday 7 October, at the Deutsches Architecturmuseum in Frankfurt, we received the DAM award for the publication ‘Kho Liang Ie: Designer + Interior Architect + Networker’, published by Jap Sam Books and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

The festive award ceremony for the 10 best (interior) architecture books of the year took place during the Frankfurter Buchmesse in the presence of many publishers, designers and authors.

Haico Beukers and Marga Scholma (Beukers Scholma), editor Ingeborg de Roode (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) and publisher Eleonoor Jap Sam accepted the prize, during the ceremony lead by curator and director of the DAM Peter Cachola Schmal. Co-editor Eng Bo Kho was unfortunately unable to attend.

A jury made up of external experts and representatives of DAM met to select the year’s ten best architectural books from 248 entries. They based their decision on criteria such as design, content, quality of material and finishing, innovation, and topicality. T

he jury statement read by Moritz Bernoully:

'[This book] brings a designer back into view whose work is still remarkably present, even though his name has largely disappeared from public awareness. Based on extensive research, the book brings together a widely dispersed body of work: furniture, interiors, exhibitions and graphic design. But its particular achievement lies in what it does with this material. Photographs, drawings, advertisements and archival documents are not simply placed one after another. They enter into new relationships. Images fill entire double pages, documents form dense visual constellations, scale and rhythm constantly change. The graphic design by Beukers Scholma is much more than a frame for the research. It turns the research itself into a visual experience. Rounded edges and translucent section pages add a physical layer to this play of connections. In this sense, the form of the book beautifully reflects its subject: both are built on connections. The result is not simply an exhibition catalogue or an archive. It is a compelling book in its own right –one that makes the world of Kho Liang Ie tangible again.'