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Royal Gold Medal

Medal awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects

Royal Gold Medal
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Medal awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects

English architect [[Charles Robert Cockerell]] was the first recipient of the Royal Gold Medal in 1848.

The Royal Gold Medal for architecture is awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects on behalf of the British monarch, in recognition of an individual's or group's substantial contribution to international architecture. It is given for a distinguished body of work rather than for one building and is therefore not awarded for merely being currently fashionable.

The medal was first awarded in 1848 to Charles Robert Cockerell, and its second recipient was the Italian Luigi Canina in 1849. The winners include some of the most influential architects of the 19th and 20th centuries, including 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). Candidates of all nationalities are eligible to receive the award.

Not all recipients were architects. Also recognised were engineers such as Ove Arup (1966) and Peter Rice (1992), who undoubtedly played an outstanding role in the realisation of some of the 20th century's key buildings all over the world. Repeatedly, the prize was awarded to influential writers on architecture, including scholars such as the Rev Robert Willis (1862), Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1967), and Sir John Summerson (1976), as well as theoreticians such as Lewis Mumford (1961) and Colin Rowe (1995). It honoured archaeologists such as Sir Austen Henry Layard (1868), Karl Richard Lepsius (1869), Melchior de Vogüé (1879), Heinrich Schliemann (1885), Rodolfo Lanciani (1900) and Sir Arthur Evans (1909), and painters such as Lord Leighton (1894), and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1906). Another notable exception was the 1999 award to the city of Barcelona.

List of recipients

YearRecipientNationality
2025Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA)Japan
2024Lesley LokkoGhana/Scotland
2023Yasmeen LariPakistan
2022Balkrishna Vithaldas DoshiIndia
2021Sir David AdjayeUK/Ghana
2020Grafton Architects (Practice co-founded by Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell)Ireland
2019Sir Nicholas GrimshawUK
2018Neave BrownU.S./UK
2017Paulo Mendes da RochaBrazil
2016Dame Zaha HadidIraq/Uk
2015Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey (Co-founders of O'Donnell & Tuomey)Ireland
2014Joseph RykwertUK
2013Peter ZumthorSwitzerland
2012Herman HertzbergerNetherlands
2011David ChipperfieldUK
2010I. M. PeiChina/U.S.
2009Álvaro Siza VieiraPortugal
2008Edward CullinanUK
2007Herzog & de MeuronSwitzerland
2006Toyo ItoJapan
2005Frei OttoGermany
2004Rem KoolhaasNetherlands
2003Rafael MoneoSpain
2002ArchigramUK
2001Jean NouvelFrance
2000Frank GehryU.S.
1999City of BarcelonaSpain
1998Oscar NiemeyerBrazil
1997Tadao AndoJapan
1996Harry SeidlerAustria/Australia
1995Colin RoweUK/U.S.
1994Michael and Patricia HopkinsUK
1993Giancarlo De CarloItaly
1992Peter RiceIreland
1991Colin Stansfield SmithUK
1990Aldo van EyckNetherlands
1989Renzo PianoItaly
1988Richard MeierU.S.
1987Ralph ErskineUK
1986Arata IsozakiJapan
1985Sir Richard RogersUK
1984Charles CorreaIndia
1983Sir Norman FosterUK
1982Berthold LubetkinUK/Georgia
1981Sir Philip DowsonUK
1980James StirlingUK
1979Charles and Ray EamesU.S.
1978Jørn UtzonDenmark
1977Sir Denys LasdunUK
1976Sir John SummersonUK
1975Michael ScottIreland
1974Powell and MoyaUK
1973Sir Leslie MartinUK
1972Louis I KahnU.S.
1971Hubert de Cronin HastingsUK
1970Robert MatthewUK
1969Jack CoiaUK
1968Buckminster FullerU.S.
1967Sir Nikolaus PevsnerUK
1966Ove ArupUK
1965Kenzo TangeJapan
1964Edwin Maxwell FryUK
1963William Holford, Baron HolfordUK
1962Sven MarkeliusSweden
1961Lewis MumfordU.S.
1960Pier Luigi NerviItaly
1959Ludwig Mies van der RoheGermany/U.S.
1958Robert Schofield MorrisCanada
1957Alvar AaltoFinland
1956Walter GropiusGermany/U.S.
1955John Murray EastonUK
1954Sir Arthur George StephensonAustralia
1953Le CorbusierFrance
1952George Grey WornumUK
1951Emanuel Vincent HarrisUK
1950Eliel SaarinenFinland
1949Sir Howard RobertsonUK
1948Auguste PerretFrance
1947Sir Albert RichardsonUK
1946Sir Patrick AbercrombieUK
1945Victor VesninUSSR
1944Sir Edward MaufeUK
1943Sir Charles Herbert ReillyUK
1942William Curtis GreenUK
1941Frank Lloyd WrightU.S.
1940Charles VoyseyUK
1939Sir Percy ThomasUK
1938Ivar TengbomSweden
1937Sir Raymond UnwinUK
1936Charles HoldenUK
1935Willem Marinus DudokNetherlands
1934Henry Vaughan LanchesterUK
1933Sir Charles Reed PeersUK
1932Hendrik Petrus BerlageNetherlands
1931Sir Edwin CooperUK
1930Percy WorthingtonUK
1929Victor LalouxFrance
1928Sir Guy DawberUK
1927Sir Herbert BakerUK
1926Ragnar ÖstbergSweden
1925Sir Giles Gilbert ScottUK
1924No awardN/A
1923Sir John James BurnetUK
1922Thomas HastingsU.S.
1921Sir Edwin LutyensUK
1920Charles GiraultFrance
1919Leonard StokesUK
1918Ernest NewtonUK
1917Henri Paul NénotFrance
1916Sir Robert Rowand AndersonUK
1915Frank DarlingCanada
1914Jean-Louis PascalFrance
1913Sir Reginald BlomfieldUK
1912Basil ChampneysUK
1911Wilhelm DörpfeldUK
1910Sir Thomas Graham JacksonUK
1909Sir Arthur EvansUK
1908Honoré DaumetFrance
1907John BelcherUK
1906Sir Lawrence Alma-TademaNetherlands
1905Sir Aston WebbUK
1904Auguste ChoisyFrance
1903Charles Follen McKimU.S.
1902Thomas Edward CollcuttUK
1901No awardN/A
1900Rodolfo LancianiItaly
1899George Frederick BodleyUK
1898George AitchisonUK
1897Pierre CuypersNetherlands
1896Sir Ernest GeorgeUK
1895James BrooksUK
1894Lord LeightonUK
1893Richard Morris HuntU.S.
1892César DalyFrance
1891Sir Arthur BlomfieldUK
1890John GibsonUK
1889Sir Charles Thomas NewtonUK
1888Baron Theophil von HansenAustria
1887Ewan ChristianUK
1886Charles GarnierFrance
1885Heinrich SchliemannGermany
1884William ButterfieldUK
1883Francis PenroseUK
1882Heinrich von FerstelAustria
1881George GodwinUK
1880John Loughborough PearsonUK
1879Marquis Melchior de VogüéFrance
1878Alfred WaterhouseUK
1877Charles BarryUK
1876Joseph-Louis DucFrance
1875Edmund SharpeUK
1874George Edmund StreetUK
1873Thomas Henry WyattUK
1872Friedrich von SchmidtGermany/Austria
1871James FergussonUK
1870Benjamin FerreyUK
1869Karl Richard LepsiusGermany
1868Sir Austen Henry LayardUK
1867Charles TexierFrance
1866Sir Matthew Digby WyattUK
1865Sir James PennethorneUK
1864Eugène Viollet-le-DucFrance
1863Anthony SalvinUK
1862Rev Robert WillisUK
1861Jean-Baptiste LesueurFrance
1860Sydney SmirkeUK
1859Sir George Gilbert ScottUK
1858Friedrich August StülerGermany
1857Owen JonesUK
1856Sir William TiteUK
1855Jacques Ignace HittorffFrance
1854Philip HardwickUK
1853Sir Robert SmirkeUK
1852Leo von KlenzeGermany
1851Thomas Leverton DonaldsonUK
1850Sir Charles BarryUK
1849Luigi CaninaItaly
1848Charles Robert CockerellUK

References

References

  1. [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ar/a/a7/RoyalGoldMedal%28c%29RIBA_261x347.jpg RIBA Royal Gold Medal]
  2. Wainwright, Oliver. (2025-02-06). "Thin is the new thick: Japanese masters of minimalism win RIBA gold medal". The Guardian.
  3. Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA. (18 January 2024). "Lesley Lokko: Royal Gold Medal 2024 recipient". Royal Institute of British Architects.
  4. Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA. (27 April 2023). "Royal Gold Medal 2023 recipient: Yasmeen Lari". Royal Institute of British Architects.
  5. "Royal Gold Medal 2022 recipient: Balkrishna Doshi".
  6. Block, India. (5 October 2020). "David Adjaye wins 2021 RIBA Royal Gold Medal". de zeen.
  7. Block, India. (2 October 2019). "Grafton Architects wins 2020 RIBA Royal Gold Medal". de zeen.
  8. Wainwright, Oliver. (27 September 2018). "Architect Nicholas Grimshaw wins RIBA gold medal". The Guardian.
  9. [[Oliver Wainwright]], "[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/oct/06/im-dumbfouded-neave-brown-the-genius-of-social-housing-on-winning-an-awaard-for-the-building-that-ended 'I'm dumbfounded!' … Neave Brown on bagging an award for the building that killed his career]". [[The Guardian]], 6 October 2017. Accessed 6 October 2017
  10. [http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13025-social-housing-pioneer-neave-brown-wins-2018-riba-gold-medal "Social Housing Pioneer Neave Brown Wins 2018 RIBA Gold Medal"], ''Architectural Record'', 28 September 2017
  11. [http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11930-paulo-mendes-da-rocha-awarded-2017-riba-royal-gold-medal "Paulo Mendes da Rocha Awarded 2017 RIBA Royal Gold Medal"], ''Architectural Record'', 29 September 2016
  12. (24 September 2015). "Dame Zaha Hadid awarded the Riba Gold Medal for architecture – BBC News". BBC News.
  13. Oliver Wainwright: [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/sep/18/riba-gold-medal-joseph-rykwert "RIBA awards Royal Gold Medal to architectural historian Joseph Rykwert"], in ''[[The Guardian]]'', 18 September 2013
  14. "2007 winner".
  15. [http://www.riba.org/go/RIBA/News/Press_4975.html 2006 winner] {{webarchive. link. (29 September 2006)
  16. (24 June 1902). "Court Circular".
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