The AIA Gold Medal is awarded by the American Institute of Architects 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." The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is the professional organization for architects in the United States. ...

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. The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor a living architect. ...

List of AIA Gold Medal winners

• 2006: Antoine Predock (U.S.)
• 2005: Santiago Calatrava (Spain)
• 2004: Samuel Mockbee (posthumous) (U.S.)
• 2003: (no award)
• 2002: Tadao Ando (Japan)
• 2001: Michael Graves (U.S.)
• 2000: Ricardo Legorreta (Mexico)
• 1999: Frank Gehry (U.S.)
• 1998: (no award)
• 1997: Richard Meier (U.S.)
• 1996: (no award)
• 1995: César Pelli (U.S.)
• 1994: Sir Norman Foster (UK)
• 1993: Thomas Jefferson (posthumous) (U.S.)
• 1993: Kevin Roche (U.S.)
• 1992: Benjamin C. Thompson (U.S.)
• 1991: Charles Willard Moore (U.S.)
• 1990: E. Fay Jones (U.S.)
• 1989: Joseph Esherick (U.S.)
• 1988: (no award)
• 1987: (no award)
• 1986: Arthur Charles Erickson (Canada)
• 1985: William Wayne Caudill (posthumous) (U.S.)
• 1984: (no award)
• 1983: Nathaniel Alexander Owings (U.S.)
• 1982: Romaldo Giurgola (U.S.)
• 1981: Joseph Lluis Sert (Spain)
• 1980: (no award)
• 1979: Ieoh Ming Pei (U.S.)
• 1978: Philip Cortelyou Johnson (U.S.)
• 1977: Richard Joseph Neutra (posthumous) (Germany)
• 1976: (no award)
• 1975: (no award)
• 1974: (no award)
• 1973: (no award)
• 1972: Pietro Belluschi (U.S.)
• 1971: Louis I. Kahn (U.S.)
• 1970: Richard Buckminster Fuller (U.S.)
• 1969: William Wilson Wurster (U.S.)
• 1968: Marcel Lajos Breuer (Germany)
• 1967: Wallace Kirkman Harrison (U.S.)
• 1966: Kenzo Tange (Japan)
• 1965: (no award)
• 1964: Pier Luigi Nervi (Italy)
• 1963: Alvar Aalto (Finland)
• 1962: Eero Saarinen (posthumous) (Finland/U.S.)
• 1961: Le Corbusier (Switzerland)
• 1960: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Germany)
• 1959: Walter Adolph Gropius (Germany)
• 1958: John Wellborn Root (U.S.)
• 1957: Ralph Walker (U.S.)
• 1957: Louis Skidmore (U.S.)
• 1956: Clarence S. Stein (U.S.)
• 1955: William Marinus Dudok (The Netherlands)
• 1954: (no award)
• 1953: William Adams Delano (U.S.)
• 1952: Auguste Perret (France)
• 1951: Bernard Ralph Maybeck (U.S.)
• 1950: Sir Patrick Abercrombie (UK)
• 1949: Frank Lloyd Wright (U.S.)
• 1948: Charles Donagh Maginnis
• 1947: Eliel Saarinen
• 1944: Louis Henri Sullivan (U.S.)
• 1938: Paul Philippe Cret
• 1933: Ragnar Ostberg
• 1929: Milton Bennett Medary
• 1927: Howard Van Doren Shaw (U.S.)
• 1925: Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens
• 1925: Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (U.S.)
• 1923: Henry Bacon
• 1922: Victor Laloux
• 1914: Jean Louis Pascal
• 1911: George Browne Post
• 1909: Charles Follen McKim (U.S.)
• 1907: Sir Aston Webb (UK)

Antoine Predock, San Diegos baseball stadium Petco Park Antoine Predock (born 1936 in Lebanon, Missouri) is an American architect based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ... Womens Bridge, in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires. ... Samuel Sambo Mockbee (1944-2001) started the Auburn University Rural Studio program in Alabama, America in 1991 with the help of fellow professor D.K. Ruth. ... The famous Church of the Light in Ibaraki-shi, Osaka, Japan The Westin Awaji Island designed by Ando Tadao Ando (安藤忠雄, Andō Tadao, born September 13, 1941 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture is sometimes categorised as Critical Regionalism. ... Portland Public Service Building Michael Graves (b. ... Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis is a Mexican architect. ... Frank Owen Gehry, (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg in Toronto, Ontario on February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. ... Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey) is a late twentieth century American architect known for his use of the purist white. ... César Pelli (born October 12, 1926 in Tucumán, Argentina) is a noted architect known for designing some of the worlds tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. ... The Armadillo, Sir Norman Fosters Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank OM Kt (born June 1, 1935) is a British architect. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Kevin Roche (b. ... Benjamin C. Thompson (July 3, 1918 - August 21, 2002) was a notable American architect. ... Piazza dItalia, New Orleans Charles Willard Moore (October 31, 1925 in Benton Harbor, Michigan – December 16, 1993 in Austin, Texas) was an American architect, educator, writer, and winner of the AIA Gold Medal in 1991. ... E. Fay Jones, (born 31 January 1921, died 31 August 2004) was a noted American architect and designer. ... Joseph Esherick (1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – December 17, 1998) was an American architect, nephew of American sculptor Wharton Esherick. ... Arthur Charles Erickson OC (born June 14, 1924, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian architect of Swedish descent. ... Romaldo (Aldo) Giurgola (September 2, 1920, Rome, Italy – ) is an Italian-American academic architect, professor, and author. ... Ieoh Ming Pei (貝聿銘 pinyin Bèi Yùmíng) is a Chinese American architect born in Suzhou, China on April 26, 1917. ... Philip Cortalyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 (Cleveland, Ohio) – January 25, 2005 (New Canaan, Connecticut)) was a distinguished American architect. ... Kaufman House, Palm Springs, California. ... Pietro Belluschi (August 18, 1899 - February 14, 1994) was an architect, a leader of the Modern Architecture movement, and responsible for the design of over one thousand buildings. ... Louis Isadore Kahn (February 20, 1901 - March 17, 1974) practised as an architect in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and taught architecture there and at Yale. ... Richard Buckminster Bucky Fuller (July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983) was an American visionary, designer, architect, inventor, and writer. ... William Wilson Wurster (1895 - 1973) was an influential American architect and architectural teacher at the University of California, Berkeley and at MIT. Wurster was born in Stockton, California and is strongly associated with the Bay Area and its regional style, along with Wursters mentor Bernard Maybeck, the landscape architect... Marcel Breuer Marcel Lajos Breuer (May 21, 1902 Pécs, Hungary – July 1, 1981 New York City), architect and furniture designer, was an influential modernist. ... Wallace K. Harrison is a mid-twentieth-century architect. ... Kenzo Tange (丹下健三, Tange Kenzō; September 4, 1913 - March 22, 2005) was a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. ... Pier Luigi Nervi (June 21, 1891 - January 9, 1979) was an Italian architect and engineer. ... Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (February 3, 1898 — May 11, 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer, sometimes called the Father of Modernism in the Nordic countries. ... Saarinens Gateway Arch frames The Old Courthouse, which sits at the heart of the city of Saint Louis, near the rivers edge. ... Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, widely known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887– August 27, 1965), was a French Swiss born architect, famous for his contributions to what is now called modernism, or the International Style. ... The reconstructed German Pavilion in Barcelona Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies) (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German architect. ... Walter Adolph Gropius (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus. ... John Wellborn Root (January 10, 1850 - January 15, 1891) was a significant U.S. architect who worked out of Chicago with Daniel Burnham. ... Ralph Thomas Walker (1889–1973) was a United States architect. ... Clarence Stein, born in 1882, was an architect and major proponent of the garden city, an idea characterized by green belts and created by Sir Ebenezer Howard. ... Willem Marinus Dudok (1884 Amsterdam - April 6, 1974 Hilversum, the Netherlands), Dutch modernist architect. ... William Adams Delano (January 21, 1874 – January 12, 1960) was a prominent American architect most active in New York City and Long Island, known for his wealthy clients and his sense of humor. ... St. ... Bernard Ralph Maybeck (February 7, 1862 - October 3, 1957) was a prominent architect in the Arts and Crafts Movement of the early 20th Century. ... Categories: People stubs | 1879 births | 1957 deaths | British architects ... Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867—April 9, 1959) was one of the most prominent and influential architects during the first half of the 20th century. ... Considered the father of American Gothic architecture, Charles Donagh Maginnis was born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland on January 7, 1867. ... Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (August 20, 1873, Rantasalmi, Finland – July 1, 1950, Cranbrook, Michigan, United States) was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century. ... Louis Sullivan Louis Henry [sometimes Henri] Sullivan (September 3, 1856 - April 14, 1924) was an American architect, called the father of modernism and is considered by many to be the creator of the Prairie School of Architecture. ... Paul Philippe Cret (October 24, 1876, Lyon, France – September 8, 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a French-American architect and industrial designer. ... Ragnar Östberg (1866-1945) was a Swedish architect who is most famous for designing Stockholm City Hall. ... Milton Bennett Medary, Jr. ... Howard Van Doren Shaw (b. ... Lutyens Early Life Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens OM (March 29, 1869 - January 1, 1944), a British architect, designed many English country houses and was instrumental in the layout and building of New Delhi. ... Goodhue by Lee Lawrie, holding the Rockefeller Chapel, Chicago, Illinois Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (April 28, 1869 _ April 23, 1924) was a renowned American architect celebrated for his work in neo-gothic design. ... Henry Bacon (November 28, 1866–February 17, 1924) an American Beaux-Arts architect, is best remembered for his severe Greek Doric Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (built 1915–1922), which was his final project. ... Victor Laloux (1850 - 1937), French Beaux-Arts architect best remembered for the 1900 stone facade of the Paris Gare dOrsay, now the Musée dOrsay. ... George Browne Post (1837 - 1913) was a U.S. architect. ... Charles Follen McKim, portrait by Frances Benjamin Johnston. ... Sir Aston Webb, portrait by Solomon Joseph Solomon, ca 1906 Sir Aston Webb (May 22, 1849 - August 21, 1930) was an English architect, active in the late 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. ...

External Links

• Gold Medal Awards AIA web site