AIA Gold Medal

For the Australian AIA award, see Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal.

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."^[1]

British architect Sir Aston Webb was the first recipient of the Gold Medal in 1907.

It is the Institute's highest award. The medal was established in 1907.^[2] Since 1947, the medal has been awarded more-or-less annually.

List of AIA Gold Medal winners

• 2024: David Lake and Ted Flato (U.S.)
• 2023: Carol Ross Barney (U.S.)^[3][4]
• 2022: Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa (U.S.)
• 2021: Edward Mazria (U.S.)^[5][6]
• 2020: Marlon Blackwell (U.S.)^[7][8]
• 2019: Richard Rogers (UK)
• 2018: James Stewart Polshek (U.S.)
• 2017: Paul Revere Williams (posthumous) (U.S.) (first African American to receive the honor)^[9]
• 2016: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (U.S.)
• 2015: Moshe Safdie (U.S., Israel, Canada)
• 2014: Julia Morgan (posthumous) (U.S.) (first woman to receive the honor)^[10]
• 2013: Thom Mayne (U.S.)
• 2012: Steven Holl (U.S.)
• 2011: Fumihiko Maki (Japan)
• 2010: Peter Bohlin (U.S.)
• 2009: Glenn Murcutt (Australia)
• 2008: Renzo Piano (Italy)
• 2007: Edward Larrabee Barnes (posthumous) (U.S.)
• 2006: Antoine Predock (U.S.)
• 2005: Santiago Calatrava (Spain, Switzerland)
• 2004: Samuel Mockbee (posthumous) (U.S.)
• 2003: (no award)
• 2002: Tadao Ando (Japan)
• 2001: Michael Graves (U.S.)
• 2000: Ricardo Legorreta (Mexico)
• 1999: Frank Gehry (Canada-U.S.)
• 1998: (no award)
• 1997: Richard Meier (U.S.)
• 1996: (no award)
• 1995: César Pelli (Argentina)
• 1994: Sir Norman Foster (UK)
• 1993: Thomas Jefferson (posthumous) (U.S.)
• 1993: Kevin Roche (U.S.)
• 1992: Benjamin C. Thompson (U.S.)
• 1991: Charles Willard Moore (U.S.)
• 1990: E. Fay Jones (U.S.)
• 1989: Joseph Esherick (U.S.)
• 1988: (no award)
• 1987: (no award)
• 1986: Arthur Charles Erickson (Canada)
• 1985: William Wayne Caudill (posthumous) (U.S.)
• 1984: (no award)
• 1983: Nathaniel Alexander Owings (U.S.)
• 1982: Romaldo Giurgola (Italy-U.S.)
• 1981: Josep Lluís Sert (Spain)
• 1980: (no award)
• 1979: Ieoh Ming Pei (U.S.)
• 1978: Philip Cortelyou Johnson (U.S.)
• 1977: Richard Joseph Neutra (posthumous) (Austria-U.S.)
• 1976: (no award)
• 1975: (no award)
• 1974: (no award)
• 1973: (no award)
• 1972: Pietro Belluschi (Italy-U.S.)
• 1971: Louis I. Kahn (U.S.)
• 1970: Richard Buckminster Fuller (U.S.)
• 1969: William Wilson Wurster (U.S.)
• 1968: Marcel Lajos Breuer (Hungary-U.S.)
• 1967: Wallace Kirkman Harrison (U.S.)
• 1966: Kenzo Tange (Japan)
• 1965: (no award)
• 1964: Pier Luigi Nervi (Italy)
• 1963: Alvar Aalto (Finland)
• 1962: Eero Saarinen (posthumous) (Finland-U.S.)
• 1961: Le Corbusier (Switzerland)
• 1960: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Germany-U.S.)
• 1959: Walter Adolph Gropius (Germany-U.S.)
• 1958: John Wellborn Root (Posthumous) (U.S.)
• 1957: Ralph Walker (U.S.) (Awarded as the Centennial Medal of Honor)
• 1957: Louis Skidmore (U.S.)
• 1956: Clarence S. Stein (U.S.)
• 1955: William Marinus Dudok (The Netherlands)
• 1954: (no award)
• 1953: William Adams Delano (U.S.)
• 1952: Auguste Perret (France)
• 1951: Bernard Ralph Maybeck (U.S.)
• 1950: Sir Patrick Abercrombie (UK)
• 1949: Frank Lloyd Wright (U.S.)
• 1948: Charles Donagh Maginnis
• 1947: Eliel Saarinen (Finland-U.S.)
• 1944: Louis Henri Sullivan (posthumous) (U.S.)
• 1938: Paul Philippe Cret (France-U.S.)
• 1933: Ragnar Östberg (Sweden)
• 1929: Milton Bennett Medary (U.S.)
• 1927: Howard Van Doren Shaw (U.S.)
• 1925: Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (U.K.)
• 1925: Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (U.S.)
• 1923: Henry Bacon (U.S.)
• 1922: Victor Laloux (France)
• 1920: Egerton Swartwout (U.S.)
• 1914: Jean-Louis Pascal (France)
• 1911: George Browne Post (U.S.)
• 1909: Charles Follen McKim (posthumous) (U.S.)
• 1907: Sir Aston Webb (U.K.) (first man to receive the honor)

See also

• Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
• Gold medal

References

1. "Gold Medal". American Institute of Architects. October 30, 2020.
2. Wrenn, Tony (December 15, 1908). "AIArchitect Homepage". info.aia.org. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
3. Keegan, Edward (December 7, 2022). "Carol Ross Barney Wins 2023 AIA Gold Medal". Architect. Retrieved December 7, 2022.
4. Keegan, Edward (December 7, 2022). "Carol Ross Barney wins one of architecture's top prizes". Crain's Chicago Business. Retrieved December 7, 2022.
5. "2021 AIA Gold Medal: Edward Mazria, FAIA". Architect. June 25, 2021. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
6. "Aia Gold Medal – Tag". ArchDaily. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
7. "10 Winners of AIA Gold Medal – RTF". Rethinking The Future. January 28, 2021. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
8. Keane, Katharine; D'Angelo, Madleine (December 11, 2019). "Marlon Blackwell Wins 2020 AIA Gold Medal". Architect. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
9. Testado, Justine (December 7, 2016). "2017 AIA Gold Medal posthumously awarded to Paul Revere Williams – the first African-American recipient". Bustler. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
10. Jacobs, Karrie (December 12, 2013). "Julia Morgan Posthumously Awarded the AIA 2014 Gold Medal". Architect. Retrieved December 7, 2021.

Sources

• Wilson, Richard Guy, ed. (1984). The AIA Gold Medal. New York City, New York, USA: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-070810-5.

External links

• Gold Medal Awards AIA web site