The American Academy of Arts and Letters annually awards the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize to architects of any nationality who have contributed to architecture as an art. The award consists of a $5,000 prize. The prize is named in honor of the notable New York architect and city planner, Arnold William Brunner, who died in 1925.
| Year | Architect |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Gordon Bunshaft, Minoru Yamasaki* |
| 1956 | John Yeon |
| 1957 | John Carl Warnecke |
| 1958 | Paul Rudolph |
| 1959 | Edward Larrabee Barnes |
| 1960 | Louis I. Kahn |
| 1961 | I.M. Pei |
| 1962 | Ulrich Franzen |
| 1963 | Edward C. Bassett |
| 1964 | Harry Weese |
| 1965 | Kevin Roche |
| 1966 | Romaldo Giurgola |
| 1967 | No award granted |
| 1968 | John M. Johansen |
| 1969 | N. Michael McKinnell |
| 1970 | Charles Gwathmey and Richard Henderson |
| 1971 | John H. Andrews (Australia) |
| 1972 | Richard Meier |
| 1973 | Robert Venturi |
| 1974 | Hugh Hardy with Norman Pfeiffer and Malcolm Holzman |
| 1975 | Lewis Davis and Samuel Brody |
| 1976 | James Stirling (UK) |
| 1977 | Henry N. Cobb |
| 1978 | Cesar Pelli |
| 1979 | Charles Moore |
| 1980 | Michael Graves |
| 1981 | Gunnar Birkerts |
| 1982 | Helmut Jahn |
| 1983 | Frank Gehry |
| 1984 | Peter Eisenman |
| 1985 | William Pedersen and Arthur May |
| 1986 | John Hejduk |
| 1987 | James Ingo Freed |
| 1988 | Arata Isozaki (Japan) |
| 1989 | Richard Rogers (UK) |
| 1990 | Steven Holl |
| 1991 | Tadao Ando (Japan) |
| 1992 | Sir Norman Foster (UK) |
| 1993 | Rafael Moneo (Spain) |
| 1994 | Renzo Piano (Italy) |
| 1995 | Daniel Urban Kiley |
| 1996 | Tod Williams and Billie Tsien |
| 1997 | Henri Ciriani (France) |
| 1998 | Alvaro Siza (Portugal) |
| 1999 | Fumihiko Maki (Japan) |
| 2000 | Toyo Ito (Japan) |
| 2001 | Henry Smith-Miller and Laurie Hawkinson |
| 2002 | Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa (Japan) |
| 2003 | Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio |
| 2004 | Hans Hollein (Austria) |
| 2005 | Shigeru Ban (Japan) |
| 2006 | Jean Nouvel (France) |
| 2007 | Eric Owen Moss |
| 2008 | Peter Zumthor (Switzerland) |
| 2009 | Juhani Pallasmaa (Finland) |
| 2010 | Michael Van Valkenburgh |
| 2011 | Mack Scogin, Merrill Elam |
| 2012 | Kathryn Gustafson |
Source: American Academy of Arts and Letters* Honorable Mention