The American Institute of Architects is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Located 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 more-or-less annual. In recent years the Gold Medal has been somewhat overshadowed by the better-publicized Pritzker Prize
Pritzker Prize
The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture."... .
The American Institute of Architects is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Located 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 more-or-less annual. In recent years the Gold Medal has been somewhat overshadowed by the better-publicized Pritzker Prize
Pritzker Prize
The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture."... .
Glenn Murcutt . He is probably Australia's most famous architect. He was presented with the Order of Australia in 1996. Prestigious awards include the Gold Medal of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 1992, the Alvar Aalto Medal in 1992, the Richard Neutra Award for Teaching in 1998, the 'Green Pin' Award from the Royal Danish... (Australia)
Renzo Piano is a world renowned Italy architect and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, AIA Gold Medal, Kyoto Prize and the Sonning Prize.... (Italy)
Edward Larrabee Barnes was a prolific American architect.Barnes was a Harvard graduate and over the years taught variously at Harvard, the Pratt Institute, and the University of Virginia.... (posthumous) (U.S.)
Antoine 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.)
Santiago Calatrava Valls is an internationally recognized and award-winning Valencian Community Spain architect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zurich, Switzerland.... (Spain)
Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee was an United States of America architect and a co-founder of the Auburn University Rural Studio program in Hale County, Alabama.... (posthumous) (U.S.)
is a Japanese people architect whose approach to architecture was once categorised 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)
Michael 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 Corporation stores in the United States.... (U.S.)
Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis is a Mexican architect. He was born in a taxi in Mexico City on May 1, 1931 . He studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.... (Mexico)
Frank Owen Gehry, Order of Canada is a Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles.His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions.... (U.S.)
C?sar Pelli is an Argentine architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. His designs are known for their curved facades and metallic elements.... (Argentina)
Thomas Jefferson was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence , and one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States.... (posthumous) (U.S.)
Kevin Roche is an award-winning twentieth century Irish-born American architect. He is famous for his creative work with glass.Born in Dublin, Roche graduated from University College Dublin in 1945.... (U.S.)
Benjamin C. Thompson was an United States 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.)
Charles Willard Moore was an United States architect, educator, writer, FAIA of the American Institute of Architects, and winner of the AIA Gold Medal in 1991.... (U.S.)
E. Fay Jones, was a noted United States architect and designer. He was an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright.E. Fay Jones, , was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Arkansas, on 31 January 1921.... (U.S.)
Joseph Esherick was an United States architect.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.)
Arthur Charles Erickson, Order of Canada is an internationally celebrated Canadian architect and urban planning. He studied Asian languages at the University of British Columbia, and later earned a degree in architecture from McGill University .... (Canada)
Nathaniel 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.... (U.S.)
Romaldo Giurgola is an Italy-United States-Australian academic architect, professor, and author. Giurgola was born in Rome in 1920. After service in the Italian armed forces during World War II, he was educated at the Sapienza University of Rome.... (U.S.)
Josep Llu?s Sert i L?pez was a Spain architect from Catalonia.Born in Barcelona, he showed keen interest in the works of his uncle, the painter Josep Maria Sert and of Antoni Gaud?.... (Spain)
1980: (no award)
1979: Ieoh Ming Pei (U.S.)
1978: Philip Cortelyou Johnson (U.S.)
1977: Richard Joseph Neutra (posthumous) (Germany)
Pietro Belluschi was a Portland, Oregon architect. He was a leader of the Modern Architecture, and was responsible for the design of over one thousand buildings.... (U.S.)
Marcel Lajos Breuer , architect and furniture designer, was an influential Hungary-born modernism of Jewish descent. One of the masters of Modernism, Breuer displayed interest in modular construction and simple forms.... (Germany)
Wallace Kirkman Harrison , was an American twentieth-century architect.Harrison started his professional career with the firm of Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray, participating in the construction of Rockefeller Center.... (U.S.)
was a Japanese people 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 Modern Architecture, and designed major buildings on five continents.... (Japan)
Pier Luigi Nervi was an Italy engineer and architect. 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)
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finland architect and designer, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism" in the Scandinavian countries. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware.... (Finland)
Eero Saarinen was a Finnish American architect and product 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.... (posthumous) (Finland/U.S.)
Charles-?douard Jeanneret-Gris, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and also Painting, who is famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called Modern architecture or the International Style.... (Switzerland)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies was a Germany architect. He was commonly referred to and addressed by his surname, Mies, by most of his American students and others.... (Germany)
John Wellborn Root was a significant United States of America architect who worked out of Chicago with Daniel Burnham. He was one of the founders of the Chicago school style.... (U.S.)
Louis Skidmore was an Architecture of the United States and a co-founder of the firm Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill.Skidmore was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana and studied at Bradley Polytechnic Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and later in Rome and Paris on a fellowship.... (U.S.)
Willem Marinus Dudok , was a Dutch modernism architect.Dudok became City Architect for the town of Hilversum in 1928 and designed dozens of public buildings and entire neighborhoods there, best known for the brick Hilversum City Hall , completed in 1931.... (The Netherlands)
William Adams Delano was a prominent United States architect, a partner with Chester Holmes Aldrich in the firm of Delano & Aldrich that worked in the Beaux-Arts architecture for elite clients in New York City and Long Island, building townhouses, country houses, clubs and banks, often in the neo-Georgian and Federal styles, com... (U.S.)
Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie was an England town planner. Educated at Uppingham School, Rutland; brother of Lascelles Abercrombie, poet and literary critic.... (UK)
Frank Lloyd Wright was an United States architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 projects, which resulted in more than 500 completed works.... (U.S.)
Considered 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....
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finland Architecture who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century.Saarinen was educated in Helsinki at the Helsinki University of Technology....
Milton Bennett Medary, Jr. was an American architect from Philadelphia, practicing in the firm Zantzinger, Borie and Medary from 1910 until his death....
Howard Van Doren Shaw was an United States architect.Shaw graduated from Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Shaw's architectural work is found throughout Chicago and the midwest,including the famous Arts and Crafts sanctuary of Second Presbyterian Church , the original Goodman Theatre, located in the Art Instit... (U.S.)
Henry Bacon an American Beaux-Arts architect, is best remembered for his severe Greek Doric Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. , which was his final project....
Victor Alexandre Frederic Laloux was a France Beaux-Arts architecture architect best remembered for the 1900 stone fa?ade of the Paris Gare d'Orsay, now the Mus?e d'Orsay....
Charles Follen McKim was one of the most prominent American Beaux-Arts architecture architects of the late nineteenth century. He was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, August 24, 1847.... (U.S.)
