Royal Gold Medal
The Royal Gold Medal is an annual architecture prize awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) on behalf of the British monarch . The medal honors individuals or groups whose life's work to date has made a significant contribution to international architecture . The award is not given to individual buildings.
While Charles Robert Cockerell , the first prize winner in 1848, was probably a Briton, the second award in 1849 to the Italian Luigi Canina gave expression to the international orientation. Among the recipients are some of the most influential architects of the 19th and 20th centuries such as Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1864), Frank Lloyd Wright (1941), Le Corbusier (1953), Walter Gropius (1956), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1959) and Buckminster Fuller (1968). Sheila O'Donnell was the first woman to receive this award in 2015 together with her husband John Tuomey . The first individual awardee was Zaha Hadid the following year .
In addition to architects, other people who have rendered outstanding services to architecture are also honored. The achievements of engineers such as Ove Arup (1966) and Peter Rice (1992), whose expertise made key construction of the 20th century possible worldwide, is recognized. Architectural writers are also recognized several times, including scholars and historians such as Rev Robert Willis (1862), Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1967) and Sir John Summerson (1976), as well as theorists such as Lewis Mumford (1961) and Colin Rowe (1995). Similarly, the award went to archaeologists , whose research greatly enriched knowledge of ancient architecture; these include Sir Austen Henry Layard (1868), Karl Richard Lepsius (1869), Melchior de Vogüé (1879), Heinrich Schliemann (1885), Rodolfo Lanciani (1900) and Sir Arthur Evans (1909). Painters are also honored with Lord Leighton (1894) and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1906) . In 1999, for the only time so far, the medal did not go to specific people but to the city of Barcelona .
List of award winners
- 2020: Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara
- 2019: Nicholas Grimshaw
- 2018: Neave Brown
- 2017: Paulo Mendes da Rocha
- 2016: Zaha Hadid
- 2015: O'Donnell & Tuomey
- 2014: Joseph Rykwert
- 2013: Peter Zumthor
- 2012: Herman Hertzberger
- 2011: David Chipperfield
- 2010: Ieoh Ming Pei
- 2009: Álvaro Siza Vieira
- 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: Richard Rogers
- 1984: Charles Correa
- 1983: Norman Foster
- 1982: Berthold Lubetkin
- 1981: Philip Dowson
- 1980: James Stirling
- 1979: Charles and Ray Eames
- 1978: Jørn Utzon
- 1977: Denys Lasdun
- 1976: John Summerson
- 1975: Michael Scott
- 1974: Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya
- 1973: Leslie Martin
- 1972: Louis I. Kahn
- 1971: Hubert de Cronin Hastings
- 1970: Robert Matthew
- 1969: Jack Coia
- 1968: Buckminster Fuller
- 1967: Nikolaus Pevsner
- 1966: Ove Arup
- 1965: Kenzō Tange
- 1964: Edwin Maxwell Fry
- 1963: William Holford
- 1962: Sven Markelius
- 1961: Lewis Mumford
- 1960: Pier Luigi Nervi
- 1959: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- 1958: Robert Schofield Morris
- 1957: Alvar Aalto
- 1956: Walter Gropius
- 1955: John Murray Easton
- 1954: Arthur George Stephenson
- 1953: Le Corbusier
- 1952: George Gray Wornum
- 1951: Emanuel Vincent Harris
- 1950: Eliel Saarinen
- 1949: Howard Robertson
- 1948: Auguste Perret
- 1947: Albert Edward Richardson
- 1946: Patrick Abercrombie
- 1945: Victor Vesnin
- 1944: Edward Maufe
- 1943: Charles Herbert Reilly
- 1942: William Curtis Green
- 1941: Frank Lloyd Wright
- 1940: Charles Voysey
- 1939: Percy Thomas
- 1938: Ivar Tengbom
- 1937: Raymond Unwin
- 1936: Charles Holden
- 1935: Willem Marinus Dudok
- 1934: Henry Vaughan Lanchester
- 1933: Charles Reed Peers
- 1932: Hendrik Petrus Berlage
- 1931: Edwin Cooper
- 1930: Percy Worthington
- 1929: Victor Laloux
- 1928: Guy Dawber
- 1927: Herbert Baker
- 1926: Ragnar Östberg
- 1925: Giles Gilbert Scott
- 1924: not awarded
- 1923: John James Burnet
- 1922: Thomas Hastings
- 1921: Edwin Lutyens
- 1920: Charles Girault
- 1919: Leonard Stokes
- 1918: Ernest Newton
- 1917: Henri Paul Nénot
- 1916: Robert Rowand Anderson
- 1915: Frank Darling
- 1914: Jean-Louis Pascal
- 1913: Reginald Blomfield
- 1912: Basil Champneys
- 1911: Wilhelm Dörpfeld
- 1910: Thomas Graham Jackson
- 1909: Arthur Evans
- 1908: Honoré Daumet
- 1907: John Belcher
- 1906: Lawrence Alma-Tadema
- 1905: Aston Webb
- 1904: Auguste Choisy
- 1903: Charles Follen McKim
- 1902: Thomas Edward Collcutt
- 1901: not awarded
- 1900: Rodolfo Lanciani
- 1899: George Frederick Bodley
- 1898: George Aitchison
- 1897: Pierre Cuypers
- 1896: Ernest George
- 1895: James Brooks
- 1894: Frederic Leighton
- 1893: Richard Morris Hunt
- 1892: César Daly
- 1891: Arthur Blomfield
- 1890: John Gibson
- 1889: Charles Thomas Newton
- 1888: Theophil Hansen
- 1887: Ewan Christian
- 1886: Charles Garnier
- 1885: Heinrich Schliemann
- 1884: William Butterfield
- 1883: Francus Penrose
- 1882: Heinrich von Ferstel
- 1881: George Godwin
- 1880: John Loughborough Pearson
- 1879: Melchior de Vogüé
- 1878: Alfred Waterhouse
- 1877: Charles Barry
- 1876: Joseph-Louis Duc
- 1875: Edmund Sharpe
- 1874: George Edmund Street
- 1873: Thomas Henry Wyatt
- 1872: Friedrich von Schmidt
- 1871: James Fergusson
- 1870: Benjamin Ferrey
- 1869: Karl Richard Lepsius
- 1868: Austen Henry Layard
- 1867: Charles Texier
- 1866: Matthew Digby Wyatt
- 1865: James Pennethorne
- 1864: Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
- 1863: Anthony Salvin
- 1862: Robert Willis
- 1861: Jean-Baptiste Lesueur
- 1860: Sydney Smirke
- 1859: George Gilbert Scott
- 1858: Friedrich August Stüler
- 1857: Owen Jones
- 1856: William Tite
- 1855: Jacques Ignace Hittorff
- 1854: Philip Hardwick
- 1853: Robert Smirke
- 1852: Leo von Klenze
- 1851: Thomas Leverton Donaldson
- 1850: Charles Barry
- 1849: Luigi Canina
- 1848: Charles Robert Cockerell
Source (unless otherwise stated): 1848–2008, 2009–2019
Individual evidence
- ^ RIBA - Royal Gold Medalists. (PDF; 107 KBytes) RIBA , archived from the original on November 26, 2009 ; Retrieved May 14, 2010 (list of winners from 1848 to 2008). Reconstructed via Royal Gold Medal. RIBA , archived from the original on November 26, 2009 ; Retrieved May 14, 2010 .
- ^ Royal Gold Medal. RIBA , accessed on January 19, 2019 (awardees from 1994).
Web links
- Royal Gold Medal. RIBA , archived from the original on November 26, 2009 (Formerly the official website for the Royal Gold Medal with access to the list of winners until 2008).
- Royal Gold Medal. (New official RIBA website for the Royal Gold Medal with less content).