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 more-or-less annual. In recent years the Gold Medal has been somewhat overshadowed by the better-publicized Pritzker Prize.

List of AIA Gold Medal winners

• 2008: Renzo Piano (Italy)
• 2007: Edward Larrabee Barnes (posthumous) (U.S.)
• 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 (Argentina)
• 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)

External links

• Gold Medal Awards AIA web site