Laureate:
- 2026: Smiljan Radić (Chile)
- 2025: Liu Jiakun (China)
- 2024: Riken Yamamoto (Japan)
- 2023: David Chipperfield (United Kingdom)
- 2022: Diébédo Francis Kéré (Burkino Faso)
- 2021: Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal (France)
- 2020: Yvonne Farrell & Shelley McNamara (Ireland)
- 2019: Arata Isozaki (Japan)
- 2018: Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi (India)
- 2017: Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem & Ramón Vilalta (Spain)
- 2016: Alejandro Aravena (Chile)
- 2015: Frei Otto (Germany)
- 2014: Shigeru Ban (Japan)
- 2013: Toyo Ito (Japan)
- 2012: Wang Shu (China)
- 2011: Eduardo Souto de Moura (Portugal)
- 2010: Kazuya Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa (Japan)
- 2009: Peter Zumthor (Switzerland)
- 2008: Jean Nouvel (France)
- 2007: Richard Rogers (United Kingdom, Italy)
- 2006: Paulo Mendes da Rocha (Brazil)
- 2005: Thom Mayne (USA)
- 2004: Zaha Hadid (UK, Iraq)
- 2003: Jørn Utzon (Denmark)
- 2002: Glenn Murcutt (UK, Australia)
- 2001: Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron (Switzerland)
- 2000: Rem Koolhaas (The Netherlands)
- 1999: Norman Foster (UK)
- 1998: Renzo Piano (Italy)
- 1997: Sverre Fehn (Norway)
- 1996: Rafael Moneo (Spain)
- 1995: Tadao Ando (Japan)
- 1994: Christian de Portzamparc (France)
- 1993: Fumihiko Maki (Japan)
- 1992: Alvaro Siza (Portugal)
- 1991: Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown (USA)
- 1990: Aldo Rossi (Italy)
- 1989: Frank Owen Gehry (USA)
- 1988: Oscar Niemeyer (Brazil)
- 1988: Gordon Bunshaft (USA)
- 1987: Kenzo Tange (Japan)
- 1986: Gottfried Böhm (Germany)
- 1985: Hans Hollein (Austria)
- 1984: Richard Meier (USA)
- 1983: I. M. Pei (USA, China)
- 1982: Kevin Roche (USA, Ireland)
- 1981: James Stirling (UK)
- 1980: Luis Barragan (Mexico)
- 1979: Philip Johnson (USA)