AIA Gold Medal

It is the Institute's highest award. The medal was established in 1907. Since 1947, the medal has been awarded more-or-less annually.

List of AIA Gold Medal winners

• 2026: Shigeru Ban (Japan)
• 2025: Deborah Berke (U.S.)
• 2024: David Lake and Ted Flato of Lake Flato Architects (U.S.)
• 2023: Carol Ross Barney (U.S.)
• 2022: Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa (U.S.)
• 2021: Edward Mazria (U.S.)
• 2020: Marlon Blackwell (U.S.)
• 2019: Richard Rogers (UK)
• 2018: James Stewart Polshek (U.S.)
• 2017: Paul Revere Williams (posthumous) (U.S.) (first African American to receive the honor)
• 2016: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (U.S.)
• 2015: Moshe Safdie (U.S., Israel, Canada)
• 2014: Julia Morgan (posthumous) (U.S.) (first woman to receive the honor)
• 2013: Thom Mayne (U.S.)
• 2012: Steven Holl (U.S.)
• 2011: Fumihiko Maki (Japan)
• 2010: Peter Bohlin (U.S.)
• 2009: Glenn Murcutt (Australia)
• 2008: Renzo Piano (Italy)
• 2007: Edward Larrabee Barnes (posthumous) (U.S.)
• 2006: Antoine Predock (U.S.)
• 2005: Santiago Calatrava (Spain, Switzerland)
• 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 (Canada-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 (Italy-U.S.)
• 1981: Josep Lluís Sert (Spain)
• 1980: (no award)
• 1979: Ieoh Ming Pei (U.S.)
• 1978: Philip Cortelyou Johnson (U.S.)
• 1977: Richard Joseph Neutra (posthumous) (Austria-U.S.)
• 1976: (no award)
• 1975: (no award)
• 1974: (no award)
• 1973: (no award)
• 1972: Pietro Belluschi (Italy-U.S.)
• 1971: Louis I. Kahn (U.S.)
• 1970: Richard Buckminster Fuller (U.S.)
• 1969: William Wilson Wurster (U.S.)
• 1968: Marcel Lajos Breuer (Hungary-U.S.)
• 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-U.S.)
• 1959: Walter Adolph Gropius (Germany-U.S.)
• 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)