Royal Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal
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The Gold Medal is the highest award of the Australian Institute of Architects awarded annually since 1960. The award was created to recognise distinguished service by Australia
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n architects who have:
  • designed or executed buildings of high merit;
  • produced work of great distinction resulting in the advancement of architecture; or
  • endowed the profession of architecture in a distinguished manner.


Until August 2008, the Institute traded as the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and the award was called the RAIA Gold Medal.

Winners

  • 1960
    1960 in architecture
    The year 1960 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* January 13 - Shamakhi Astrophysical Observatory officially opened in Shamakhi, Azerbaijan....

     Leslie Wilkinson
  • 1961
    1961 in architecture
    The year 1961 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* The Palazzo del Lavoro and Palazzetto dello sport in Turin, designed by Pier Luigi Nervi, are completed.* One Chase Manhattan Plaza in New York City, United States, is completed....

     Louis Laybourne-Smith
  • 1962
    1962 in architecture
    The year 1962 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings and structures:*May 25 - Coventry Cathedral in England, designed by Basil Spence, is consecrated.*July 1 - The Minolta Tower in Niagara Falls is opened....

     Joseph Fowell
  • 1963
    1963 in architecture
    The year 1963 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* March 7 - MetLife Building in Manhattan, New York, United States is opened.* Bankside Power Station in London, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott is completed...

     Arthur Stephenson
  • 1964 Cobden Parkes
  • 1965 Osborn McCutcheon
  • 1966 William Laurie
  • 1967 William Godfrey
  • 1968 Roy Grounds
    Roy Grounds
    Sir Roy Burman Grounds , wasone of Australia's leading architects of the modern movement.-Biography:Born in Melbourne, Grounds was educated at Scotch College and then Melbourne University and worked for the architectural firm of Blackett, Forster and Craig...

  • 1969 Robin Boyd
    Robin Boyd
    Robin Gerard Penleigh Boyd CBE was an influential Australian architect, writer, teacher and social commentator...

  • 1970 Jack McConnell
  • 1971 Frederick Lucas
  • 1972 Ted Farmer
    New South Wales Government Architect
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  • 1973 Jørn Utzon
    Jørn Utzon
    Jørn Oberg Utzon, , AC was a Danish architect, most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. When it was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, Utzon became only the second person to have received such recognition for one of his works during his lifetime...

  • 1974 Raymond Berg
  • 1975 Sydney Ancher
  • 1976 Harry Seidler
    Harry Seidler
    Harry Seidler, AC OBE was an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia.Harry Seidler designed more than 180 buildings and he...

  • 1977 Ronald Gilling
  • 1978 Mervyn Parry
  • 1979 Bryce Mortlock
    Bryce Mortlock
    Dr. Bryce Mortlock was an Australian architect and planner. In partnership with Sydney Ancher, Stuart Murray andKen Woolley, his career spanned the era in which modern Australian architecture was consolidated....

  • 1980 John Andrews
    John Andrews (architect)
    John Hamilton Andrews is a Canadian and Australian architect.John Andrews graduated with a bachelors from the University of Sydney in 1956. In 1957 he entered the masters of architecture program at Harvard University. After graduation he worked with John Parkin in Don Mills, a suburb of Toronto,...

  • 1981 Colin Madigan
    Colin Madigan
    Colin Frederick Madigan AO was an Australian architect. He is best known for designing the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.-Biography:...

  • 1982 John Overall
    John Overall (architect)
    Sir John Wallace Overall CBE, MC & Bar was an Australian World War II veteran and architect.Overall served as an officer in the Australian Imperial Force during the Second World War, where he was awarded the Military Cross for "great courage, devotion and initiative" in 1941 for his service during...

  • 1983 Gilbert Nicol & Ross Chisholm
  • 1984 Philip Cox
    Philip Cox
    Professor Philip Sutton Cox AO is an Australian architect.Professor Cox is the founding partner of COX Architects & Planners, one of the largest architectural practices in Australia....

  • 1985 Richard Norman Johnson
  • 1986 Richard Butterworth
  • 1987 Daryl Jackson
    Daryl Jackson
    Daryl Sanders Jackson AO is an Australian architect, and the owner of an international architecture firm, Jackson Architecture...

  • 1988 Romaldo Giurgola
    Romaldo Giurgola
    Romaldo Giurgola AO is an Italian-American-Australian academic architect, professor, and author. Giurgola was born in Galatina, in the south of Italy in 1920. After service in the Italian armed forces during World War II, he was educated at the Sapienza University of Rome...

  • 1989 Robin Gibson
  • 1990 Peter McIntyre
    Peter McIntyre (architect)
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  • 1991 Donald Bailey
    Donald Bailey (architect)
    Donald Bailey, also known as Don Bailey, is an Australian architect, and executive director of the RAIA in Canberra after his own private practice. In 1960 Donald Bailey setup Howlett and Bailey Architects with Jeffrey Howlett in Perth, Western Australia...

  • 1992 Glenn Murcutt
    Glenn Murcutt
    Glenn Marcus Murcutt AO is a British-born Australian architect and winner of the 2002 Pritzker Prize and 2009 AIA Gold Medal.-Biography:...

  • 1993 Ken Woolley
    Ken Woolley
    Ken F. Woolley AM, B.Arch LAIA, is an influential Australian architect. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he is best known for his contributions to project housing with Pettit and Sevitt, the Wilkinson Award winning Woolley House in Mosman, and his longstanding partnership with Sydney...

  • 1994 Neville Quarry
  • 1995 no award
  • 1996 John Denton, William Corker & Barry Marshall
    Denton Corker Marshall
    Denton Corker Marshall is a major award-winning Australian architecture practice established in Melbourne in 1972. It was founded by architects John Denton, Bill Corker, and Barrie Marshall...

  • 1997 Roy Simpson
  • 1998 Gabriel Poole
  • 1999 Richard Leplastrier
    Richard Leplastrier
    Richard Leplastrier is an Australian Architect.After graduation from Sydney University in 1963, he worked in the Sydney office of Jørn Utzon from 1964 to 1966 assisting with documentation of the Sydney Opera House...

  • 2000 John Morphett
  • 2001 Keith Cottier
  • 2002 Brit Andresen
    Brit Andresen
    Brit Andresen is a Norwegian born Australian architect and was the first female recipient of the RAIA Gold Medal, awarded in 2002, for her sustained contribution to architecture through teaching, scholarship and practice.-Biography:...

  • 2003 Peter Corrigan
    Peter Corrigan
    Peter Russell Corrigan was born in 1941, Australia. As an Australian architect and has been involved in the completion of works in stage and set design.-Early Life and Life Achievements:...

  • 2004 Gregory Burgess
    Gregory Burgess
    Gregory Burgess is a Melbourne-based architect. Burgess is especially notable for his buildings for indigenous communities in Australia, and for his participatory design approach which has produced some remarkable and unique buildings....

  • 2005 James Birrell
    James Birrell
    James Birrell is a retired architect responsible for the design of significant buildings in Queensland, Australia. James Birrell practiced from 1951 to 1986.-Personal life:...

  • 2006 Kerry Hill
    Kerry Hill
    Kerry Hill is an architect who has specialised in hotel design in tropical Asia.He studied at Perth Technical College and the University of Western Australia graduating in 1968. He worked for Howlett & Bailey in Perth from 1969 to 1971...

  • 2007
    2007 in architecture
    The year 2007 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* January 20 - Olympic Sculpture Park opens in Seattle, WA., designed by Weiss/Manfredi.* January 21 - The National Art Center, Tokyo opens, designed by Kisho Kurokawa...

     Enrico Taglietti
  • 2008
    2008 in architecture
    The year 2008 in architecture involves some significant events.-Buildings:*January 1 - China Central Television Headquarters building, by Rem Koolhaas and OMA, officially opens in Beijing...

     Richard Johnson
    Richard Johnson (architect)
    Richard Anthony Johnson MBE B.Arch M. Phil F.RAIA, MDIA, AJIA is an Australian architect best known as the creator of some of the Australian most important and iconic cultural buildings and spaces.-Academic career:...

  • 2009
    2009 in architecture
    The year 2009 in architecture involves some significant events.-Buildings:*January 17 - Copenhagen Concert Hall, designed by Jean Nouvel, opens.*January 31 - Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, designed by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, opens....

     Ken Maher
  • 2010
    2010 in architecture
    The year 2010 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* January 4 - Burj Khalifa opened in the United Arab Emirates as the tallest man-made structure in the world, at 828m ....

     Kerry Clare and Lindsay Clare
    Kerry and Lindsay Clare
    Kerry Clare , and Lindsay Clare are a wife and husband duo who together are accomplished Australian architects.Kerry Clare and Lindsay Clare practiced in Queensland from 1979–1998 and New South Wales 1998–present...

  • 2011
    2011 in architecture
    The year 2011 in architecture involves some significant events.-Buildings:* January 21 - Museum of Old and New Art, designed by Nonda Katsalidis, opens on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia....

     Graeme Gunn
    Graeme Gunn
    Graeme Gunn "For me, the getting of Architecture, while essential to my existence, has not been easy"."Apart from family, Architecture has been the cornerstone of my existence for more than 50 years."-Personal information:...


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