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The Royal Gold Medal for architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
 is awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects
Royal Institute of British Architects

The Royal Institute of British Architects is a professional body for architects in the United Kingdom.Originally named the Institute of British Architects in London, it was formed in 1834 by several prominent architects, including Philip Hardwick, Thomas Allom, William Donthorne, Thomas Leverton Donaldson and John Buonarotti Papwor...
 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
Charles Robert Cockerell

Charles Robert Cockerell was an English architect, archaeologist, and writer. Early in his life, he trained in the architectural practice of his father, Samuel Pepys Cockerell....
 and its winners include many of the most well-known architects of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Sir Giles Gilbert Scott
Giles Gilbert Scott

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, Order of Merit , Royal Institute of British Architects was an England architect known for his work on such buildings as Liverpool Cathedral and Battersea Power Station....
 (1925), Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright

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....
 (1941) and Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier

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....
 (1953).






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The Royal Gold Medal for architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
 is awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects
Royal Institute of British Architects

The Royal Institute of British Architects is a professional body for architects in the United Kingdom.Originally named the Institute of British Architects in London, it was formed in 1834 by several prominent architects, including Philip Hardwick, Thomas Allom, William Donthorne, Thomas Leverton Donaldson and John Buonarotti Papwor...
 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
Charles Robert Cockerell

Charles Robert Cockerell was an English architect, archaeologist, and writer. Early in his life, he trained in the architectural practice of his father, Samuel Pepys Cockerell....
 and its winners include many of the most well-known architects of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Sir Giles Gilbert Scott
Giles Gilbert Scott

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, Order of Merit , Royal Institute of British Architects was an England architect known for his work on such buildings as Liverpool Cathedral and Battersea Power Station....
 (1925), Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright

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....
 (1941) and Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier

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....
 (1953). In 1992 the Irish structural engineer Peter Rice
Peter Rice

Peter Rice was an Ireland structural engineer....
 became the second engineer to receive the award; the first was Ove Arup
Ove Arup

Sir Ove Nyquist Arup, Order of the British Empire, MICE, Institution of Structural Engineers was a leading England-Denmark engineer, the founder of the internationally important firm of Arup and generally considered to be one of the foremost engineers of his time....
 in 1966. Another notable exception was the 1999 award to the city of Barcelona
Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....
.

The award is for a body of work, rather than for one building or for an architect who is currently fashionable.

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