Reference list
Holders of the Royal Institute of British Architects royal gold medal for the promotion of architecture (1848–2009)
In 1848 Queen Victoria, patron of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), instituted a gold medal for the promotion of architecture. Every year the council of RIBA was to recommend to the sovereign any distinguished British or foreign architect, or eminent person, or group, who had contributed to the science of architecture. No award was made in 1901 (on account of Victoria's death) or in 1924. In 1999 the medal was awarded to the city of Barcelona.| 1848 | Charles Robert Cockerell (1788–1863) |
| 1849 | Luigi Canina (1795–1856) |
| 1850 | Charles Barry (1795–1860) |
| 1851 | Thomas Leverton Donaldson (1795–1885) |
| 1852 | (Franz Karl) Leopold von Klenze (1784–1864) |
| 1853 | Robert Smirke (1780–1867) |
| 1854 | Philip Hardwick (1792–1870) |
| 1855 | Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792–1867) |
| 1856 | William Tite (1798–1873) |
| 1857 | Owen Jones (1809–1874) |
| 1858 | Friedrich August Stüler (1800–1865) |
| 1859 | George Gilbert Scott (1811–1878) |
| 1860 | Sydney Smirke (1798–1877) |
| 1861 | Jean Baptiste Cicéron Lesueur (1794–1883) |
| 1862 | Robert Willis (1800–1875) |
| 1863 | Anthony Salvin (1799–1881) |
| 1864 | Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) |
| 1865 | James Pennethorne (1801–1871) |
| 1866 | Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820–1877) |
| 1867 | (Félix Marie) Charles Texier (1802–1871) |
| 1868 | Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) |
| 1869 | Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884) |
| 1870 | Benjamin Ferrey (1810–1880) |
| 1871 | James Fergusson (1808–1886) |
| 1872 | Friedrich von Schmidt (1825–1891) |
| 1873 | Thomas Henry Wyatt (1807–1880) |
| 1874 | George Edmund Street (1824–1881) |
| 1875 | Edmund Sharpe (1809–1877) |
| 1876 | Joseph-Louis Duc (1802–1879) |
| 1877 | Charles Barry (1823–1900) |
| 1878 | Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) |
| 1879 | Marquis de Vogue (1829–1916) |
| 1880 | John Loughborough Pearson (1817–1897) |
| 1881 | George Godwin (1813–1888) |
| 1882 | Heinrich von Ferstel (1828–1883) |
| 1883 | Francis Cranmer Penrose (1817–1903) |
| 1884 | William Butterfield (1814–1900) |
| 1885 | Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890) |
| 1886 | Charles Garnier (1825–1898) |
| 1887 | Ewan Christian (1814–1895) |
| 1888 | Theophil Edvard von Hansen (1813–1891) |
| 1889 | Sir Charles Thomas Newton (bap. 1816, d. 1894) |
| 1890 | John Gibson (1817–1892) |
| 1891 | Sir Arthur William Blomfield (1829–1899) |
| 1892 | César Daly (1811–1893) |
| 1893 | Richard Morris Hunt (1827–1895) |
| 1894 | Sir Frederic Leighton (1830–1896) |
| 1895 | James Brooks (1825–1901) |
| 1896 | Ernest George (1839–1922) |
| 1897 | Petrus Josephus Hubertus (Pierre) Cuypers (1827–1921) |
| 1898 | George Aitchison (1825–1910) |
| 1899 | George Frederick Bodley (1827–1907) |
| 1900 | Rodolfo Amadeo Lanciani (1845–1929) |
| 1902 | Thomas Edward Collcutt (1840–1924) |
| 1903 | Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909) |
| 1904 | Auguste Choisy (1841–1909) |
| 1905 | Sir Aston Webb (1849–1930) |
| 1906 | Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) |
| 1907 | John Belcher (1841–1913) |
| 1908 | (Pierre Jerome) Honoré Daumet (1826–1911) |
| 1909 | Arthur John Evans (1851–1941) |
| 1910 | Thomas Graham Jackson (1835–1924) |
| 1911 | Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853–1940) |
| 1912 | Basil Champneys (1842–1935) |
| 1913 | Reginald Theodore Blomfield (1856–1942) |
| 1914 | Jean-Louis Pascal (1837–1920) |
| 1915 | Frank Darling (1850–1923) |
| 1916 | Sir Robert Rowand Anderson (1834–1921) |
| 1917 | Henri Paul Nénot (1853–1934) |
| 1918 | Ernest Newton (1856–1922) |
| 1919 | Leonard Aloysius Scott Stokes (1858–1925) |
| 1920 | Charles Louis Girault (1851–1932) |
| 1921 | Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869–1944) |
| 1922 | Thomas Hastings (1860–1929) |
| 1923 | Sir John James Burnet (1857–1938) |
| 1925 | Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880–1960) |
| 1926 | Ragnar Östberg (1866–1945) |
| 1927 | Sir Herbert Baker (1862–1946) |
| 1928 | (Edward) Guy Dawber (1861–1938) |
| 1929 | Victor Alexandre Frederic Laloux (1850–1937) |
| 1930 | Percy Scott Worthington (1864–1939) |
| 1931 | Sir (Thomas) Edwin Cooper (1874–1942) |
| 1932 | Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856–1934) |
| 1933 | Sir Charles Reed Peers (1868–1952) |
| 1934 | Henry Vaughan Lanchester (1863–1953) |
| 1935 | Willem Marinus Dudok (1884–1974) |
| 1936 | Charles Henry Holden (1875–1960) |
| 1937 | Sir Raymond Unwin (1863–1940) |
| 1938 | Ivar Justus Tengbom (1878–1968) |
| 1939 | Percy Edward Thomas (1883–1969) |
| 1940 | Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857–1941) |
| 1941 | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) |
| 1942 | William Curtis Green (1875–1960) |
| 1943 | Charles Herbert Reilly (1874–1948) |
| 1944 | Edward Brantwood Maufe (1882–1974) |
| 1945 | Viktor Aleksandrovic Vessnin (1882–1950) |
| 1946 | Sir (Leslie) Patrick Abercrombie (1879–1957) |
| 1947 | Albert Edward Richardson (1880–1964) |
| 1948 | Auguste Perret (1874–1954) |
| 1949 | Howard Morley Robertson (1888–1963) |
| 1950 | (Gottlieb) Eliel Saarinen (1873–1950) |
| 1951 | Emanuel Vincent Harris (1876–1971) |
| 1952 | George Grey Wornum (1888–1957) |
| 1953 | Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) (1887–1965) |
| 1954 | Sir Arthur George Stephenson (1890–1967) |
| 1955 | John Murray Easton (1889–1975) |
| 1956 | Walter Adolph Gropius (1883–1969) |
| 1957 | Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (1898–1976) |
| 1958 | Robert Schofield Morris (1899–1964) |
| 1959 | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) |
| 1960 | Pier Luigi Nervi (1891–1979) |
| 1961 | Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) |
| 1962 | Sven Gottfried Markelius (1889–1972) |
| 1963 | Sir William Graham Holford (1907–1975) |
| 1964 | (Edwin) Maxwell Fry (1899–1987) |
| 1965 | Kenzo Tange (1913–2005) |
| 1966 | Ove Nyquist Arup (1895–1988) |
| 1967 | Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (1902–1983) |
| 1968 | (Richard) Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) |
| 1969 | Giacomo Antonio [Jack] Coia (1898–1981) |
| 1970 | Sir Robert Hogg Matthew (1906–1975) |
| 1971 | Hubert de Cronin Hastings (1902–1986) |
| 1972 | Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974) |
| 1973 | Sir (John) Leslie Martin (1908–2000) |
| 1974 | (Arnold Joseph) Philip Powell (1921–2003) and (John) Hidalgo [Jacko] Moya (1920–1994) |
| 1975 | Michael Scott (1905–1989) |
| 1976 | Sir John Newenham Summerson (1904–1992) |
| 1977 | Sir Denys Louis Lasdun (1914–2001) |
| 1978 | Jørn Utzon (1918–2008) |
| 1979 | Charles Eames (1907–1978) and Ray Eames (1912–1988) |
| 1980 | James Frazer Stirling (1924–1992) |
| 1981 | Sir Philip Manning Dowson (b. 1924) |
| 1982 | Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin (1901–1990) |
| 1983 | Norman Robert Foster (b. 1935) |
| 1984 | Charles Correa (b. 1930) |
| 1985 | Richard George Rogers (b. 1933) |
| 1986 | Arata Isozaki (b. 1931) |
| 1987 | Ralph Erskine (1914–2005) |
| 1988 | Richard Meier (b. 1934) |
| 1989 | Renzo Piano (b. 1937) |
| 1990 | Aldo van Eyck (1918–1999) |
| 1991 | Colin Stansfield Smith (b. 1932) |
| 1992 | Peter Ronan Rice (1935–1992) |
| 1993 | Giancarlo de Carlo (1919–2005) |
| 1994 | Michael John Hopkins (b. 1935) and Patricia Ann Hopkins (b. 1942) |
| 1995 | Colin Frederick Rowe (1920–1999) |
| 1996 | Harry Seidler (1923–2006) |
| 1997 | Tadao Ando (b. 1941) |
| 1998 | Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) |
| 1999 | the city of Barcelona |
| 2000 | Frank Gehry (b. 1929) |
| 2001 | Jean Nouvel (b. 1945) |
| 2002 | Archigram |
| 2003 | (José) Rafael Moneo (b. 1937) |
| 2004 | Remment (Rem) Koolhaas (b. 1944) |
| 2005 | Frei Paul Otto (b. 1925) |
| 2006 | Toyo Ito (b. 1941) |
| 2007 | Jacques Herzog (b. 1950) and Pierre de Meuron (b. 1950) |
| 2008 | Edward Cullinan (b. 1931) |
| 2009 | Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira (b. 1933) |
