Principal Angel Ayón’s book, Reglazing Modernism - Intervention Strategies for 20th Century Icons (Birkhäuser, 2019), has won the 2021 Lee Nelson Book Award from the Association for Preservation Technology International (APT)!
The publication was recognized for being the most outstanding and influential book-length work on preservation technology. Given only every three years, the honor places Reglazing Modernism among merely seven previous winners, and is a tribute to the late Lee Nelson, an outstanding preservationist, APT founder, and long-time editor of the APT Bulletin. The award was announced at the 2021 Preservation Beyond Politics annual conference in Washington, DC.
According to Gina Crevello, the APT president at the time,
"the jurors agreed that the book increases our technical understanding of a key component for the preservation of [Modern] buildings. And that it is valuable to both the student and the practitioner. The book includes historic images for all case studies, as well as photographs and technical 3D details of original conditions and alterations, highlighting the main intervention strategies for restoration, rehabilitation and replacement. The jurors were impressed with the clear presentation of the topic; how well it is written, and edited, and beautifully laid out; and voted Reglazing Modernism - Intervention Strategies for 20th Century Icons by Angel, Uta and Nathaniel as the best preservation technology book of the year."
Ms. Crevello congratulated the authors for "an excellent book” that she deemed “an excellent choice for the Lee Nelson Award."
Co-authored by Uta Pottgiesser and Nathaniel Richards, Reglazing Modernism provides 20 in-depth case studies of Modern architectural icons in both Europe and the Americas. Focusing on interventions to their steel-framed glazing assemblies, the book offers a critical assessment of these, while also exploring emerging technologies that may offer higher performance in the future.
For more on Reglazing Modernism, see https://www.ayonstudio.com/book.