Royal Gold Medal

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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

Source (unless otherwise stated): 1848–2008, 2009–2019

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 .
  2. ^ 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).