The Gold Medal is the American Institute of Architects’ highest award. Eligibility is open to architects and non-architects, living or dead, whose contribution to the field of architecture has made a lasting impact. The AIA’s board of directors grants at least one gold medal each year, occasionally granting none.
| Year | Architect |
|---|---|
| 1907 | Sir Aston Webb (UK) |
| 1909 | Charles F. McKim |
| 1911 | George B. Post |
| 1914 | Jean Louis Pascal (France) |
| 1922 | Victor Laloux (France) |
| 1923 | Henry Bacon |
| 1925 | Sir Edwin Lutyens (UK) |
| 1925 | Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue |
| 1927 | Howard Van Doren Shaw |
| 1929 | Milton B. Medary |
| 1933 | Ragnar Östberg (Sweden) |
| 1938 | Paul Philippe Cret (France/US) |
| 1944 | Louis Sullivan |
| 1947 | Eliel Saarinen (Finland/US) |
| 1948 | Charles D. Maginnis |
| 1949 | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| 1950 | Sir Patrick Abercrombie (UK) |
| 1951 | Bernard Maybeck |
| 1952 | Auguste Perret (France) |
| 1953 | William Adams Delano |
| 1955 | Willem Marinus Dudok (Netherlands) |
| 1956 | Clarence S. Stein |
| 1957 | Ralph Thomas Walker |
| 1957 | Louis Skidmore |
| 1958 | John Wellborn Root II |
| 1959 | Walter Gropius (Germany/US) |
| 1960 | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Germany/US) |
| 1961 | Le Corbusier (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) (Switzerland/France) |
| 1962 | Eero Saarinen* |
| 1963 | Alvar Aalto (Finland) |
| 1964 | Pier Luigi Nervi (Italy) |
| 1966 | Kenzo Tange (Japan) |
| 1967 | Wallace K. Harrison |
| 1968 | Marcel Breuer |
| 1969 | William Wurster |
| 1970 | R. Buckminster Fuller |
| 1971 | Louis I. Kahn |
| 1972 | Pietro Belluschi |
| 1977 | Richard Neutra* (Germany/US) |
| 1978 | Philip Johnson |
| 1979 | I.M. Pei |
| 1981 | José Luis Sert (Spain) |
| 1982 | Romaldo Giurgola |
| 1983 | Nathaniel Owings |
| 1985 | William Wayne Caudill* |
| 1986 | Arthur C. Erickson (Canada) |
| 1989 | Joseph Esherick |
| 1990 | E. Fay Jones |
| 1991 | Charles Moore |
| 1992 | Benjamin Thompson |
| 1993 | Thomas Jefferson* |
| 1993 | Kevin Roche |
| 1994 | Sir Norman Foster (UK) |
| 1995 | Cesar Pelli |
| 1997 | Richard Meier |
| 1999 | Frank Gehry |
| 2000 | Ricardo Legorreta (Mexico) |
| 2001 | Michael Graves |
| 2002 | Tadao Ando (Japan) |
| 2004 | Samuel Mockbee* |
| 2005 | Santiago Calatrava (Spain) |
| 2006 | Antoine Predock |
| 2007 | Edward Larrabee Barnes* |
| 2008 | Renzo Piano (Italy) |
| 2009 | Glenn Murcutt (Australia) |
| 2010 | Peter Bohlin |
| 2011 | Fumihiko Maki |
| 2012 | Steven Holl |
* Honored posthumously
Source: American Institute of Architects