Royal Gold Medal

The Royal Gold Medal is an award annually Architecture Award, Royal Institute of British Architects awards on behalf of the British monarch. With the coin individuals or groups are honored their life's work represents a significant contribution to international architecture. The award is not for individual buildings.

Was Charles Robert Cockerell, the first winner in 1848, probably a Briton, as is already awarded with the second award of 1849 on the Italian Luigi Canina the international orientation of expression. Among the recipients are found some of the most influential architects of the 19th and 20th centuries such as 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).

About Architects addition, other persons are excellent, have rendered outstanding services to the architecture. Thus, the performance of engineers as Ove Arup (1966) and Peter Rice (1992 ) recognizes their expertise enabled key buildings of the 20th century world. Also architecture writer to be considered more than once, both scholars and historians such as Rev Robert Willis (1862 ), Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1967) and Sir John Summerson (1976 ) as well as theorists such as Lewis Mumford (1961) and Rowe (1995). Similarly, the price also fell to archaeologists whose research the knowledge of the ancient architecture significantly enriched; these include Sir Austen Henry Layard (1868 ), Karl Richard Lepsius (1869 ), Melchior de Vogüé (1879 ), Heinrich Schliemann (1885), Rodolfo Lanciani (1900) and Sir Arthur Evans ( 1909). With Lord Leighton (1894 ) and Sir Lawrence Alma -Tadema (1906 ) are also excellent painter. 1999 is the medal for the only time not to specific persons, but to the city of Barcelona.

List of winners

• 2013: Peter Zumthor
• 2012: Herman Hertzberger
• 2011: David Chipperfield
• 2010: IM Pei
• 2009: Álvaro Siza Vieira
• 2008: Edward Cullinan
• 2007: Herzog & de Meuron
• 2006: Toyo Ito
• 2005: Frei Otto
• 2004: Rem Koolhaas
• 2003: Rafael Moneo
• 2002: Archigram
• 2001: Jean Nouvel
• 2000: Frank Gehry
• 1999: Barcelona
• 1998: Oscar Niemeyer
• 1997: Tadao Ando
• 1996: Harry Seidler
• 1995: Colin Rowe
• 1994: Michael and Patricia Hopkins
• 1993: Giancarlo de Carlo
• 1992: Peter Rice
• 1991: Colin Stansfield Smith
• 1990: Aldo van Eyck
• 1989: Renzo Piano
• 1988: Richard Meier
• 1987: Ralph Erskine
• 1986: Arata Isozaki
• 1985: Richard Rogers
• 1984: Charles Correa
• 1983: Norman Foster
• 1982: Berthold Lubetkin
• 1981: Philip Dowson
• 1980: James Stirling
• 1979: Charles and Ray Eames
• 1978: Jørn Utzon
• 1977: Denys Lasdun
• 1976: John Summerson
• 1975: Michael Scott
• 1974: Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya
• 1973: Leslie Martin
• 1972: Louis I. Kahn
• 1971: Hubert de Cronin Hastings
• 1970: Robert Matthew
• 1969: Jack Coia
• 1967: Nikolaus Pevsner
• 1966: Ove Arup
• 1965: Kenzo Tange
• 1964: Edwin Maxwell Fry
• 1963: William Holford
• 1962: Sven Markelius
• 1961: Lewis Mumford
• 1960: Pier Luigi Nervi
• 1959: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• 1958: Robert Schofield Morris
• 1957: Alvar Aalto
• 1956: Walter Gropius
• 1955: John Murray Easton
• 1954: Arthur George Stephenson
• 1953: Le Corbusier
• 1952: George Grey Wornum
• 1951: Emanuel Vincent Harris
• 1950: Eliel Saarinen
• 1949: Howard Robertson
• 1948: Auguste Perret
• 1947: Albert Edward Richardson
• 1946: Patrick Abercrombie
• 1945: Victor Vesnin
• 1944: Edward Maufe
• 1943: Charles Herbert Reilly
• 1942: William Curtis Green
• 1941: Frank Lloyd Wright
• 1940: Charles Voysey
• 1939: Percy Thomas
• 1938: Ivar Tengbom
• 1937: Raymond Unwin
• 1936: Charles Holden
• 1935: Willem Marinus Dudok
• 1934: Henry Vaughan Lanchester
• 1933: Charles Reed Peers
• 1932: Hendrik Petrus Berlage
• 1931: Edwin Cooper
• 1930: Percy Worthington
• 1929: Victor Laloux
• 1928: Guy Dawber
• 1927: Herbert Baker
• 1926: Ragnar Östberg
• 1925: Giles Gilbert Scott
• 1924: not awarded
• 1923: John James Burnet
• 1922: Thomas Hastings
• 1921: Edwin Lutyens
• 1920: Charles Girault
• 1919: Leonard Stokes
• 1918: Ernest Newton
• 1917: Henri Paul Nénot
• 1916: Robert Rowand Anderson
• 1915: Frank Darling
• 1914: Jean -Louis Pascal
• 1913: Reginald Blomfield
• 1912: Basil Champneys
• 1911: Wilhelm Dörpfeld
• 1910: Thomas Graham Jackson
• 1909: Arthur Evans
• 1908: Honoré Daumet
• 1907: John Belcher
• 1906: Lawrence Alma- Tadema
• 1905: Aston Webb
• 1904: Auguste Choisy
• 1903: Charles Follen McKim
• 1902: Thomas Edward Collcutt
• 1901: not awarded
• 1900: Rodolfo Lanciani
• 1899: George Frederick Bodley
• 1898: George Aitchison
• 1897: Pierre Cuypers
• 1896: Ernest George
• 1895: James Brooks
• 1894: Frederic Leighton
• 1893: Richard Morris Hunt
• 1892: César Daly
• 1891: Arthur Blomfield
• 1890: John Gibson
• 1889: Charles Thomas Newton
• 1888: Theophil von Hansen
• 1887: Ewan Christian
• 1886: Charles Garnier
• 1885: Heinrich Schliemann
• 1884: William Butterfield
• 1883: Francus Penrose
• 1882: Heinrich von Ferstel
• 1881: George Godwin
• 1880: The John Loughborough Pearson
• 1879: Melchior de Vogüé
• 1878: Alfred Waterhouse
• 1877: Charles Barry
• 1876 ​​: Joseph -Louis Duc
• 1875: Edmund Sharpe
• 1874: George Edmund Street
• 1873: Thomas Henry Wyatt
• 1872: Friedrich von Schmidt
• 1871: James Fergusson
• 1870: Benjamin Ferrey
• 1869: Karl Richard Lepsius
• 1868: Austen Henry Layard
• 1867: Charles Texier
• 1866: Matthew Digby Wyatt
• 1865: James Pennethorne
• 1864: Eugène Viollet -le- Duc
• 1863: Anthony Salvin
• 1862: Robert Willis
• 1861: Jean -Baptiste Lesueur
• 1860: Sydney Smirke
• 1859: George Gilbert Scott
• 1858: Friedrich August Stiller
• 1857: Owen Jones
• 1856: William Tite
• 1855: Jacques Ignace Hittorff
• 1854: Philip Hardwick
• 1853: Robert Smirke
• 1852: Leo von Klenze
• 1851: Thomas Leverton Donaldson
• 1850: Charles Barry
• 1849: Luigi Canina
• 1848: Charles Robert Cockerell