Royal Gold Medal
The Royal Gold Medal for architecture is awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects on behalf of the British monarch, in recognition of an individual's or group's substantial contribution to international architecture.
It was first awarded in 1848 to Charles Robert Cockerell and its winners include many of the most well-known architects of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1925), Frank Lloyd Wright (1941) and Le Corbusier (1953). In 1992 the Irish structural engineer Peter Rice became the second engineer to receive the award; the first was Ove Arup in 1966. Another notable exception was the 1999 award to the city of Barcelona.
The award is for a body of work, rather than for one building or for an architect who is currently fashionable.
List of recipients
- 2008 - Edward Cullinan
- 2007 - Herzog & de Meuron
- 2006 - Toyo Ito
- 2005 - Frei Otto
- 2004 - Rem Koolhaas
- 2003 - Rafael Moneo
- 2002 - Archigram
- 2001 - Jean Nouvel
- 2000 - Frank Gehry
- 1999 - Barcelona
- 1998 - Oscar Niemeyer
- 1997 - Tadao Ando
- 1996 - Harry Seidler
- 1995 - Colin Rowe
- 1994 - Michael and Patricia Hopkins
- 1993 - Giancarlo de Carlo
- 1992 - Peter Rice
- 1991 - Colin Stansfield Smith
- 1990 - Aldo van Eyck
- 1989 - Renzo Piano
- 1988 - Richard Meier
- 1987 - Ralph Erskine
- 1986 - Arata Isozaki
- 1985 - Sir Richard Rogers
- 1984 - Charles Correa
- 1983 - Sir Norman Foster
- 1982 - Berthold Lubetkin
- 1981 - Sir Philip Dowson
- 1980 - James Stirling
- 1979 - Charles and Ray Eames, USA
- 1978 - Jørn Utzon, Denmark
- 1977 - Sir Denys Lasdun
- 1976 - Sir John Summerson
- 1975 - Michael Scott, Ireland
- 1974 - Powell and Moya
- 1973 - Sir Leslie Martin
- 1972 - Louis I Kahn, USA
- 1971 - Hubert de Cronin Hastings
- 1970 - Robert Matthew
- 1969 - Jack Antonio Coia
- 1968 - Richard Buckminster Fuller, USA
- 1967 - Sir Nikolaus Pevsner
- 1966 - Ove Arup
- 1965 - Kenzo Tange, Japan
- 1964 - Edwin Maxwell Fry
- 1963 - The Lord Holford
- 1962 - Sven Gottfried Markelius, Sweden
- 1961 - Lewis Mumford, USA
- 1960 - Prof. Pier Luigi Nervi, Italy
- 1959 - Prof. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Germany/ USA
- 1958 - Robert Schofield Morris, Canada
- 1957 - Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto, Finland
- 1956 - Dr. Walter Adolf Georg Gropius, Germany/ USA
- 1955 - John Murry Easton
- 1954 - Sir Arthur George Stephenson
- 1953 - Le Corbusier (CE Jeaneret, France
- 1952 - George Grey Wornum
- 1951 - Emanuel Vincent Harris
- 1950 - Eliel Saarinen, Finland
- 1949 - Sir Howard Robertson
- 1948 - Auguste Perret, France
- 1947 - Prof. Sir Albert Edward Richardson
- 1946 - Prof. Sir Patrick Abercrombie
- 1945 - Victor Vesnin, USSR
- 1944 - Sir Edward Maufe
- 1943 - Sir Charles Herbert Reilly
- 1942 - William Curtis Green
- 1941 - Frank Lloyd Wright, USA
- 1940 - Charles Francis Annesley Voysey
- 1939 - Sir Percy Thomas
- 1938 - Prof. Ivar Tengbom, Sweden
- 1937 - Sir Raymond Unwin
- 1936 - Charles Henry Holden
- 1935 - Willem Marinus Dudok, Holland
- 1934 - Henry Vaughan Lanchester
- 1933 - Sir Charles Reed Peers
- 1932 - Dr. Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Holland
- 1931 - Sir Edwin Cooper
- 1930 - Percy Scott Worthington
- 1929 - Victor Alexandre Frederic Laloux, France
- 1928 - Sir Guy Dawber
- 1927 - Sir Herbert Baker
- 1926 - Prof. Ragnar Ostberg, Sweden
- 1925 - Sir Giles Gilbert Scott
- 1924 - No award
- 1923 - Sir John James Burnet
- 1922 - Thomas Hastings, USA
- 1921 - Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens
- 1920 - Charles Louis Girault, France
- 1919 - Leonard Stokes
- 1918 - Ernest Newton
- 1917 - Henri Paul Nenot, France
- 1916 - Sir Robert Rowand Anderson
- 1915 - Frank Darling, Canada
- 1914 - Jean Louis Pascal, France
- 1913 - Sir Reginald Blomfield
- 1912 - Basil Champneys
- 1911 - Wilhelm Dorpfeld
- 1910 - Sir Thomas Graham Jackson
- 1909 - Sir Arthur John Evans
- 1908 - Honore Daumet, France
- 1907 - John Belcher
- 1906 - Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
- 1905 - Sir Aston Webb
- 1904 - Auguste Choisy, France
- 1903 - Charles Follen McKim, USA
- 1902 - Thomas Edward Collcutt
- 1901 - No award
- 1900 - Prof. Rodolfo Amadeo Lanciani, Italy
- 1899 - George Frederick Bodley
- 1898 - George Aitchison
- 1897 - Dr Pierre Cuypers, Nederland
- 1896 - Sir Ernest George
- 1895 - James Brooks
- 1894 - Lord Leighton
- 1893 - Richard Morris Hunt, USA
- 1892 - Cesar Daly, France
- 1891 - Sir Arthur Blomfield
- 1890 - John Gibson (architect)
- 1889 - Sir Charles Thomas Newton
- 1888 - Baron Theophil von Hansen, Austria
- 1887 - Ewan Christian
- 1886 - Charles Garnier, France
- 1885 - Heinrich Schliemann, Germany
- 1884 - William Butterfield
- 1883 - Francis Cranmer Penrose
- 1882 - Baron von Ferstel, Austria
- 1881 - George Godwin
- 1880 - John Loughborough Pearson
- 1879 - Marquis de Vogue, France
- 1878 - Alfred Waterhouse
- 1877 - Charles Barry
- 1876 - Joseph Louis Duc, France
- 1875 - Edmund Sharpe
- 1874 - George Edmund Street
- 1873 - Thomas Henry Wyatt
- 1872 - Baron von Schmidt, Austria
- 1871 - James Fergusson
- 1870 - Benjamin Ferrey
- 1869 - Karl Richard Lepsius, Germany
- 1868 - Sir Henry Layard
- 1867 - Charles Texier, France
- 1866 - Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt
- 1865 - Sir James Pennethorne
- 1864 - Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, France
- 1863 - Anthony Salvin
- 1862 - Rev Robert Willis
- 1861 - JB Lesueur, France
- 1860 - Sydney Smirke
- 1859 - Sir George Gilbert Scott
- 1858 - Friedrich August Stüler, Germany
- 1857 - Owen Jones
- 1856 - Sir William Tite
- 1855 - Jacques Ignace Hittorff, France
- 1854 - Philip Hardwick
- 1853 - Sir Robert Smirke
- 1852 - Leo von Klenze, Austria
- 1851 - Thomas Leverton Donaldson
- 1850 - Sir Charles Barry
- 1849 - Luigi Canina, Italy
- 1848 - Charles Robert Cockerell