AIA Gold Medal

E11046

architecture award lifetime achievement award

The AIA Gold Medal is the highest honor awarded by the American Institute of Architects, recognizing an individual whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture.

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Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	architecture award → lifetime achievement award →
administeredBy	American Institute of Architects →
alsoKnownAs	Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects →
awardingBody	American Institute of Architects →
category	American architecture awards → awards established in 1907 →
country	United States →
criterion	lasting influence on architectural practice → lasting influence on architectural theory → significant body of architectural work →
describedAs	highest honor of the American Institute of Architects →
eligibility	individual architects → living or deceased individuals →
field	architecture →
firstAwarded	1907 →
frequency	annual →
genre	architectural honor →
hasGenderRestriction	no →
hasPart	medal →
headquartersOfAwardingBody	Washington, D.C. →
inception	1907 →
locationOfAwardingBody	Washington, D.C. →
notableRecipient	Denise Scott Brown → Frank Lloyd Wright → I. M. Pei → Le Corbusier → Louis I. Kahn → Norman Foster → Paul Revere Williams → Renzo Piano → Robert Venturi → Santiago Calatrava → Tadao Ando →
officialLanguage	English →
officialWebsite	https://www.aia.org/awards/7046-gold-medal →
presentedBy	American Institute of Architects →
purpose	to recognize an individual whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture →
relatedAward	AIA Architecture Firm Award → AIA Twenty-five Year Award →
relatedOrganization	The American Institute of Architects →
scope	international →
selectionProcess	recipients are selected by the AIA Board of Directors →
status	active →
typicalAnnouncementTime	annually by the AIA →

Referenced by (43)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alvar Aalto → Auguste Perret → Charles Follen McKim ("American Institute of Architects Gold Medal") → Charles Moore ("American Institute of Architects Gold Medal") → César Pelli → Denise Scott Brown ("AIA Gold Medal (retroactive recognition with Robert Venturi)") → Edward Larrabee Barnes ("American Institute of Architects Gold Medal") → Edwin Lutyens → Eero Saarinen ("AIA Gold Medal (posthumous)") → Frank Gehry → Frank Gehry → Frank Lloyd Wright → Gordon Bunshaft ("American Institute of Architects Gold Medal") → Henry Bacon ("Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects") → I. M. Pei → James Ingo Freed → John Russell Pope ("Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects") → Josep Lluís Sert → Kenzo Tange → Le Corbusier → Louis Kahn → Maria Ludwig Michael Mies → Nathaniel A. Owings ("American Institute of Architects Gold Medal") → Norman Foster → Paul Philippe Cret ("Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects") → Paul R. Williams → Philip Johnson ("American Institute of Architects Gold Medal") → Pier Luigi Nervi → Renzo Piano → Renzo Piano → Richard Meier → Robert Venturi → Romaldo Giurgola → Santiago Calatrava → Tadao Ando → Wallace Harrison ("American Institute of Architects Gold Medal") → Walter Gropius →	awardReceived
AIA Gold Medal ("Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects") →	alsoKnownAs
American Institute of Architects →	awards
Paul R. Williams ("2017 AIA Gold Medal (posthumous)") →	dateAwarded
American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Architecture (various chapter awards) ("American Institute of Architects Gold Medal (national AIA award)") →	distinguishedFrom
American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Architecture (various chapter awards) ("American Institute of Architects Gold Medal") →	namedAfter
Bernard Maybeck ("Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects") →	notableAward