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.” It is the Institute’s highest award. Since 1947, the medal has been awarded more or less annually.
List of AIA Gold Medal winners:
2021: Edward Mazria 2020: Marlon Blackwell 2019: Richard Rogers 2018: James Stewart Polshek 2017: Paul Revere Williams 2016: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown 2015: Moshe Safdie 2014: Julia Morgan 2013: Thom Mayne 2012: Steven Holl 2011: Fumihiko Maki 2010: Peter Bohlin 2009: Glenn Murcutt 2008: Renzo Piano 2007: Edward Larrabee Barnes 2006: Antoine Predock 2005: Santiago Calatrava 2004: Samuel Mockbee 2003: (no award) 2002: Tadao Ando 2001: Michael Graves 2000: Ricardo Legorreta 1999: Frank Gehry 1998: (no award) 1997: Richard Meier 1996: (no award) 1995: César Pelli 1994: Sir Norman Foster 1993: Thomas Jefferson 1993: Kevin Roche 1992: Benjamin C. Thompson 1991: Charles Willard Moore 1990: E. Fay Jones 1989: Joseph Esherick 1988: (no award) 1987: (no award) 1986: Arthur Charles Erickson 1985: William Wayne Caudill 1984: (no award) 1983: Nathaniel Alexander Owings (U.S.) 1982: Romaldo Giurgola (Italy-U.S.) 1981: Josep Lluís Sert (Spain) 1980: (no award) 1979: Ieoh Ming Pei 1978: Philip Cortelyou Johnson (U.S.) 1977: Richard Joseph Neutra 1976: (no award) 1975: (no award) 1974: (no award) 1973: (no award) 1972: Pietro Belluschi (Italy-U.S.) 1971: Louis I. Kahn 1970: Richard Buckminster Fuller (U.S.) 1969: William Wilson Wurster (U.S.) 1968: Marcel Lajos Breuer (Hungary) 1967: Wallace Kirkman Harrison (U.S.) 1966: Kenzo Tange 1965: (no award) 1964: Pier Luigi Nervi 1964: Balthazar Korab (Hungary) 1963: Alvar Aalto 1962: Eero Saarinen 1961: Le Corbusier 1960: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1959: Walter Adolph Gropius 1958: John Wellborn Root (Posthumous) (U.S.) 1957: Ralph Walker (U.S.) (Awarded as the Centennial Medal of Honor) 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 (Finland-U.S.) 1944: Louis Henri Sullivan (posthumous) (U.S.) 1938: Paul Philippe Cret (France-U.S.) 1933: Ragnar Östberg (Sweden) 1929: Milton Bennett Medary (U.S.) 1927: Howard Van Doren Shaw (U.S.) 1925: Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (U.K.) 1925: Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (U.S.) 1923: Henry Bacon (U.S.) 1922: Victor Laloux (France) 1920: Egerton Swartwout (U.S.) 1914: Jean-Louis Pascal (France) 1911: George Browne Post (U.S.) 1909: Charles Follen McKim (posthumous) (U.S.) 1907: Sir Aston Webb (U.K.) (first man to receive the honor)
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