AIA Gold Medal
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The AIA Gold Medal is awarded by the American Institute of Architects
conferred "by the national AIA Board of Directors in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture."
It is the Institute's highest award. Since 1947, the medal has been awarded more-or-less annually.
American Institute of Architects
The American Institute of Architects is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the AIA offers education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach to support the architecture profession and improve its public image...
conferred "by the national AIA Board of Directors in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture."
It is the Institute's highest award. Since 1947, the medal has been awarded more-or-less annually.
List of AIA Gold Medal winners
- 20112011 in architectureThe year 2011 in architecture involves some significant events.-Buildings:* January 21 - Museum of Old and New Art, designed by Nonda Katsalidis, opens on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia....
: Fumihiko MakiFumihiko Makiis a Japanese architect and currently teaching at Keio University SFC.- Biography :After studying at the University of Tokyo he moved to the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and then to Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1956, he took a post as assistant professor of...
(Japan) - 20102010 in architectureThe year 2010 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* January 4 - Burj Khalifa opened in the United Arab Emirates as the tallest man-made structure in the world, at 828m ....
: Peter Q Bohlin (U.S.) - 20092009 in architectureThe year 2009 in architecture involves some significant events.-Buildings:*January 17 - Copenhagen Concert Hall, designed by Jean Nouvel, opens.*January 31 - Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, designed by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, opens....
: Glenn MurcuttGlenn MurcuttGlenn Marcus Murcutt AO is a British-born Australian architect and winner of the 2002 Pritzker Prize and 2009 AIA Gold Medal.-Biography:...
(Australia) - 20082008 in architectureThe year 2008 in architecture involves some significant events.-Buildings:*January 1 - China Central Television Headquarters building, by Rem Koolhaas and OMA, officially opens in Beijing...
: Renzo PianoRenzo PianoRenzo Piano is an Italian architect. He is the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, AIA Gold Medal, Kyoto Prize and the Sonning Prize...
(Italy) - 20072007 in architectureThe year 2007 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* January 20 - Olympic Sculpture Park opens in Seattle, WA., designed by Weiss/Manfredi.* January 21 - The National Art Center, Tokyo opens, designed by Kisho Kurokawa...
: Edward Larrabee BarnesEdward Larrabee BarnesEdward Larrabee Barnes was a American architect.Barnes was born in Chicago, Illinois into a family he described as "incense-swinging High Episcopalians", consisting of Cecil Barnes, a lawyer, and Margaret Helen Ayer, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for the novel Year of Grace...
(posthumous) (U.S.) - 20062006 in architectureThe year 2006 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:*January 16 - 10 Holloway Circus is completed in Birmingham, England, designed by Ian Simpson Architects....
: Antoine PredockAntoine PredockAntoine Predock is an American architect based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Antoine Predock is the Principal of Antoine Predock Architect PC. The studio was established in 1967...
(U.S.) - 2005: Santiago CalatravaSantiago CalatravaSantiago Calatrava Valls is a Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zürich, Switzerland. Classed now among the elite designers of the world, he has offices in Zürich, Paris, Valencia, and New York City....
(Spain) - 2004: Samuel MockbeeSamuel MockbeeSamuel "Sambo" Mockbee was an American architect and a co-founder of the Auburn University Rural Studio program in Hale County, Alabama....
(posthumous) (U.S.) - 2003: (no award)
- 2002: Tadao AndoTadao Andois a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was once categorized by Francesco Dal Co as critical regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field...
(Japan) - 2001: Michael GravesMichael GravesMichael Graves is an American architect. Identified as one of The New York Five, Graves has become a household name with his designs for domestic products sold at Target stores in the United States....
(U.S.) - 2000: Ricardo LegorretaRicardo LegorretaRicardo Legorreta Vilchis is a Mexican architect. He was born in Mexico City on May 7, 1931. He was awarded the prestigious UIA Gold Medal in 1999 and the Praemium Imperiale in 2011.He studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México....
(Mexico) - 1999: Frank GehryFrank GehryFrank Owen Gehry, is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions...
(Canada) - 1998: (no award)
- 1997: Richard MeierRichard MeierRichard Meier is an American architect, whose rationalist buildings make prominent use of the color white.- Biography :Meier is Jewish and was born in Newark, New Jersey...
(U.S.) - 1996: (no award)
- 1995: César PelliCésar PelliCésar Pelli is an Argentine architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. In 1991, the American Institute of Architects listed Pelli among the ten most influential living American architects...
(Argentina) - 1994: Sir Norman Foster (UK)
- 1993: Thomas JeffersonThomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia...
(posthumous) (U.S.) - 1993: Kevin RocheKevin RocheKevin Roche is an Irish-American architect known for his creative work with glass.Born in Dublin, Roche spent his formative years in Mitchelstown, Co. Cork before he graduated from University College Dublin in 1945. He then worked with Michael Scott from 1945-1946...
(U.S.) - 1992: Benjamin C. ThompsonBenjamin C. ThompsonBenjamin C. Thompson was an American architect.Thompson was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, graduated from Yale University in 1941, then spent four years in the United States Navy fighting in World War II...
(U.S.) - 1991: Charles Willard MooreCharles Willard MooreCharles Willard Moore was an American architect, educator, writer, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and winner of the AIA Gold Medal in 1991.-Life and career:...
(U.S.) - 1990: E. Fay Jones (U.S.)
- 1989: Joseph EsherickJoseph EsherickJoseph Esherick was an American architect.Esherick was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1937, Esherick set up practice in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1953 and taught at University of California, Berkeley for many years...
(U.S.) - 1988: (no award)
- 1987: (no award)
- 1986: Arthur Charles EricksonArthur EricksonArthur Charles Erickson, was a Canadian architect and urban planner. He studied Asian languages at the University of British Columbia, and later earned a degree in architecture from McGill University.-Biography:...
(Canada) - 1985: William Wayne Caudill (posthumous) (U.S.)
- 1984: (no award)
- 1983: Nathaniel Alexander OwingsNathaniel A. OwingsNathaniel Alexander Owings was an American architect, a founding partner of Skidmore Owings and Merrill , which became one of the largest architectural firms in the United States and the world. Owings viewed skyscrapers as his firm's specialty...
(U.S.) - 1982: Romaldo GiurgolaRomaldo GiurgolaRomaldo Giurgola AO is an Italian-American-Australian academic architect, professor, and author. Giurgola was born in Galatina, in the south of Italy in 1920. After service in the Italian armed forces during World War II, he was educated at the Sapienza University of Rome...
(U.S.) - 1981: Josep Lluís SertJosep Lluís SertJosep Lluís Sert i López was a Spanish Catalan architect and city planner.- Biography :Born in Barcelona, he showed keen interest in the works of his painter uncle Josep Maria Sert and of Gaudí. He studied architecture at the Escola Superior d'Arquitectura in Barcelona and set up his own studio...
(Spain) - 1980: (no award)
- 1979: Ieoh Ming Pei (U.S.)
- 1978: Philip Cortelyou Johnson (U.S.)
- 1977: Richard Joseph Neutra (posthumous) (Austria)
- 1976: (no award)
- 1975: (no award)
- 1974: (no award)
- 1973: (no award)
- 1972: Pietro BelluschiPietro BelluschiPietro Belluschi was an American architect, a leader of the Modern Movement in architecture, and was responsible for the design of over one thousand buildings....
(U.S.) - 1971: Louis I. Kahn (U.S.)
- 1970: Richard Buckminster Fuller (U.S.)
- 1969: William Wilson Wurster (U.S.)
- 1968: Marcel Lajos BreuerMarcel BreuerMarcel Lajos Breuer , was a Hungarian-born modernist, architect and furniture designer of Jewish descent. One of the masters of Modernism, Breuer displayed interest in modular construction and simple forms.- Life and work :Known to his friends and associates as Lajkó, Breuer studied and taught at...
(Germany) - 1967: Wallace Kirkman HarrisonWallace HarrisonWallace Kirkman Harrison , was an American architect.-Career:Harrison started his professional career with the firm of Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray, participating in the construction of Rockefeller Center...
(U.S.) - 1966: Kenzo TangeKenzo Tangewas a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. He was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and designed major buildings on five continents. Tange was also an influential protagonist of...
(Japan) - 1965: (no award)
- 1964: Pier Luigi NerviPier Luigi NerviPier Luigi Nervi was an Italian engineer. He studied at the University of Bologna and qualified in 1913. Dr. Nervi taught as a professor of engineering at Rome University from 1946-61...
(Italy) - 1963: Alvar AaltoAlvar AaltoHugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware...
(Finland) - 1962: Eero SaarinenEero SaarinenEero Saarinen was a Finnish American architect and industrial designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism.-Biography:Eero Saarinen shared the same birthday as his father,...
(posthumous) (Finland/U.S.) - 1961: Le CorbusierLe CorbusierCharles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930...
(Switzerland) - 1960: Ludwig Mies van der RoheLudwig Mies van der RoheLudwig Mies van der Rohe was a German architect. He is commonly referred to and addressed as Mies, his surname....
(Germany) - 1959: Walter Adolph Gropius (Germany)
- 1958: John Wellborn RootJohn Wellborn RootJohn Wellborn Root was an American architect who worked out of Chicago with Daniel Burnham. He was one of the founders of the Chicago School style...
(U.S.) - 1957: Ralph WalkerRalph Thomas WalkerRalph Thomas Walker, FAIA, was an American architect, president of the American Institute of Architects and partner of the firm McKenzie, Voorhees, Gmelin; and its successor firms Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker, Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith; Voorhees, Walker, Smith & Smith; and Voorhees, Walker,...
(U.S.) - 1957: Louis SkidmoreLouis SkidmoreLouis Skidmore was an American architect, co-founder of the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill and recipient of the AIA Gold Medal.-Biography:...
(U.S.) - 1956: Clarence S. Stein (U.S.)
- 1955: William Marinus DudokWillem Marinus DudokWillem Marinus Dudok , was a Dutch modernist architect, best known for the brick Hilversum City Hall....
(The Netherlands) - 1954: (no award)
- 1953: William Adams DelanoWilliam Adams DelanoWilliam Adams Delano , an American architect, was a partner with Chester Holmes Aldrich in the firm of Delano & Aldrich. The firm worked in the Beaux-Arts tradition for elite clients in New York City, Long Island and elsewhere, building townhouses, country houses, clubs, banks and buildings for...
(U.S.) - 1952: Auguste PerretAuguste PerretAuguste Perret was a French architect and a world leader and specialist in reinforced concrete construction. In 2005 his post-WWII reconstruction of Le Havre was declared by UNESCO one of the World Heritage Sites....
(France) - 1951: Bernard Ralph MaybeckBernard MaybeckBernard Ralph Maybeck was a architect in the Arts and Crafts Movement of the early 20th century. He was a professor at University of California, Berkeley...
(U.S.) - 1950: Sir Patrick AbercrombiePatrick AbercrombieSir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie ) was an English town planner. Educated at Uppingham School, Rutland; brother of Lascelles Abercrombie, poet and literary critic.-Career:...
(UK) - 1949: Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...
(U.S.) - 1948: Charles Donagh MaginnisCharles Donagh MaginnisConsidered the father of American Gothic architecture, Charles Donagh Maginnis was born in County Londonderry, Ireland on January 7, 1867. He was educated in Dublin, emigrated to Boston at age 18 and got his first job apprenticing for architect Edmund M. Wheelwright as a draftsman. In 1900 he...
- 1947: Eliel SaarinenEliel SaarinenGottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century....
- 1944: Louis Henri Sullivan (U.S.)
- 1938: Paul Philippe CretPaul Philippe CretPaul Philippe Cret was a French-American architect and industrial designer. For more than thirty years, he headed the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.- Biography :...
- 1933: Ragnar OstbergRagnar ÖstbergRagnar Östberg was a Swedish architect who is most famous for designing Stockholm City Hall. He is the most famous architect within the so-called "national romanticist" movement in Sweden...
- 1929: Milton Bennett MedaryMilton Bennett MedaryMilton Bennett Medary, Jr. was an American architect from Philadelphia, practicing in the firm Zantzinger, Borie and Medary from 1910 until his death....
- 1927: Howard Van Doren ShawHoward Van Doren ShawHoward Van Doren Shaw was an American architect. He became one of the best-known architects of his generation in the Chicago area.-Early life and career:...
(U.S.) - 1925: Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens
- 1925: Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (U.S.)
- 1923: Henry BaconHenry BaconHenry Bacon was an American Beaux-Arts architect who is best remembered for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. , which was his final project.- Education and early career :...
- 1922: Victor LalouxVictor LalouxVictor Alexandre Frederic Laloux was a French Beaux-Arts architect and teacher.- Life :Born in Tours, Laloux studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts atelier of Louis-Jules André, with his studies interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, and was awarded the annual Prix de Rome in 1878...
- 1914: Jean-Louis PascalJean-Louis PascalJean-Louis Pascal was an academic French architect.- Life :Born in Paris, Pascal was taught at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts by Émile Gilbert and Charles-Auguste Questel...
- 1911: George Browne Post
- 1909: Charles Follen McKimCharles Follen McKimCharles Follen McKim FAIA was an American Beaux-Arts architect of the late 19th century. Along with Stanford White, he provided the architectural expertise as a member of the partnership McKim, Mead, and White....
(U.S.) - 1907: Sir Aston Webb (UK)