Professor Lesley Lokko, acclaimed Ghanaian-Scottish architect, educator, author and curator, will receive this year’s Royal Gold Medal 2024, one of the world’s highest honours for architecture. Given in recognition of a lifetime’s work and presented

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has decided to give its Gold Medal to the Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari, in recognition of the humanitarian work she has undertaken since her retirement in 2000, as the announcement states. Known as

Balkrishna Doshi The Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the profession’s most distinguished prize in the United Kingdom, fell upon Balkrishna Doshi, Pritzker winner in 2018, teacher of several generations of Indian practitioners

The Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the highest distinction that can be given to a professional in the field in the United Kingdom, went to David Adjaye, one of the leading African architects in the international scene. Born

Grafton Architects  The Gold Medal of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) is the maximum distinction that can be given to a professional in the field in the United Kingdom, and it went to Grafton Architects, the office led by Yvonne Farr

Inheritors of the very best of British brutalism tradition, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara (Grafton Architects) are known for constructions with a strong social component and a powerful structural imprint where enormous spans and unfaced reinfor

In the 1970s, technocratic modernity found in the UK a fertile field that bore fruit in the form, already as high-tech, of works by stars like Foster and Rogers, but also by an outstanding cast of supporting actors, among whom the most gifted was per

Neave Brown The Gold Medal of the RIBA (The Royal Institute of British Architects) is the maximum distinction that can be awarded in the United Kingdom to a professional in the field, and in the latest edition it went to the American architect and ar

Zaha Hadid Just a few months after her death, Zaha Hadid was awarded the Gold Medal that the Royal Institute of British Architects confers annually on a professional whose work has had a significant influence on the advancement and dissemination of a

Soon after landing the Golden Lion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale and the Praemium Imperiale of Japan (see Arquitectura Viva 185 and 188), Paulo Mendes da Rocha has for 2017 won a no less prestigious award, the RIBA Gold Medal, given yearly

ODonnell + Tuomey The Irish firm established by Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey received the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), an award that is presented yearly, since 1848, in recognition of the career of professionals

The Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid is the new winner of the gold medal that the Royal Institute of British Architects confers annually on a professional whose work has had a significant influence on the advancement and dissemination of architectu

Joseph Rykwert The architecture historian and theorist Joseph Rykwert received the Gold Medal that, since 1848, the Royal Institute of British Architects gives yearly in recognition of the career of professionals who have had a meaningful influence i

The Irish partners Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey have received the RIBA Gold Medal, one of the most prestigious of architectural prizes. Given yearly since 1848 by the Royal Institute of British Architects, in representation of the British monar

Peter Zumthor The Basel architect Peter Zumthor received the Gold Medal that, since 1848, the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) awards in recognition of the professional career of professionals which have had a meaningful influence, direct

In recognition of a six-decade career, the critic and historian Joseph Rykwert has been given the RIBA Gold Medal, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects since 1848. Born in Warsaw in 1926 and an emigré to London at the outbreak of Wor

Herman Hertzberger Hermann Hertzberger received the Gold Medal with which the Royal Institute of British Architects has every year since 1848 been honoring the careers of professionals whose works have an international reach. An instigator, along wit

David Chipperfield The London architect David Chipperfield has received the RIBA Gold Medal 2011, thus obtaining the most important recognition for a British architect in his country. The RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) had previously di

El holandés Herman Hertzberger ha recibido la Medalla de Oro que otorga anualmente el RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects). El premio viene concediéndose por la institución británica desde el año 1848, como reconocimiento a profesionales dest

Ieoh Ming Pei The China-born North American architect Ieoh Ming Pei has received the 2010 RIBA Gold Medal. Born in Canton in 1917, at 18 he moved to the United States, where he studied architecture at the MIT and then joined Harvard’s GSD, shortly be

El londinense David Chipperfield ha recibido la prestigiosa Medalla de Oro del Real Instituto de Arquitectos Británicos (RIBA) como reconocimiento a toda su trayectoria, que se inició en los ochenta con interiorismos para Miyake, continuó en los nove

Álvaro Siza  The premier architectural award of the Isles, granted by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), has gone to the Portuguese Álvaro Siza. His work, as the jury commended, is always attentive to the possibilities of the pla

El arquitecto americano de origen chino Ieoh Ming Pei (Cantón, 1917) ha obtenido la Medalla de Oro del RIBA 2010, que otorga anualmente la institución británica desde 1948. Tras titularse en arquitectura en Harvard, Pei ganó el encargo de la bibliot