The Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal is the highest individual award of the Australian Institute of Architects, awarded annually since 1960. The award was created to recognise distinguished service by Australian architects who have: designed or executed buildings of high merit; produced work of great distinction resulting in the advancement of architecture; or endowed the profession of architecture in a distinguished manner.

Recipients

1960 Leslie Wilkinson (1882—1973), New South Wales 1961 Louis Laybourne Smith (1880—1965), South Australia 1962 Joseph Charles Fowell (1891—1970), New South Wales 1963 Sir Arthur George Stephenson (1890—1967), Victoria 1964 Cobden Parkes (1892—1978), New South Wales 1965 Sir Walter Paul Osborn McCutcheon (1899–1983), Victoria 1966 William (Bill) Rae Laurie (1904—1970), New South Wales 1967 William Purves Race Godfrey, Victoria 1968 Sir Roy Grounds (1905—1981), Victoria 1969 Robin Boyd (1919—1971), Victoria 1970 Jack Hobbs McConnell (1913—2005), South Australia 1971 Frederick Bruce Lucas (1898—1873), Queensland 1972 Edward (Ted) Harbert Farmer (1909—2001) , New South Wales 1973 Jørn Utzon (1918—2008), Denmark 1974 Raymond Berg (1913—1989), Victoria 1975 Sydney Ancher (1904—1979), New South Wales 1976 Harry Seidler (1923—2006), New South Wales 1977 Ronald Andrew Gilling (1917—2005), New South Wales 1978 Mervyn Henry Parry (1913—2006), Western Australia 1979 Bryce Mortlock (1921—2004), New South Wales 1980 John Andrews (1933—2022), New South Wales 1981 Colin Madigan (1921—2011), New South Wales 1982 Sir John Overall (1913—2001), ACT 1983 Gilbert Nicol (1925—2010) & Ross Chisholm (1931—1998), [Cameron Chisholm Nicol] Western Australia 1984 Philip Cox (1939–), New South Wales 1985 Peter Johnson (1923—2003), New South Wales 1986 Richard Butterworth (1924–2000), Victoria 1987 Daryl Jackson (1937—2026), Victoria 1988 Romaldo Giurgola (1920—2016), ACT 1989 Robin Gibson (1930—2014), Queensland 1990 Peter McIntyre (1928—), Victoria 1991 Donald Bailey (1927—2025), Western Australia 1992 Glenn Murcutt (1936—), New South Wales 1993 Ken Woolley (1933—2015), New South Wales 1994 Neville Quarry (1933–2004), New South Wales 1995 No Award 1996 John Denton, William Corker & Barry Marshall, Denton Corker Marshall, Victoria 1997 Roy McCowan Simpson (1914—1997), Victoria 1998 Gabriel Poole (1934—2020), Queensland 1999 Richard Leplastrier (1939—), New South Wales 2000 John Morphett (1932—2016), South Australia 2001 Keith Cottier (1938—), New South Wales 2002 Brit Andresen (1945—), Queensland 2003 Peter Corrigan (1941—2016) & Maggie Edmond (1946—) (added in 2023), [Edmond Corrigan], Victoria 2004 Gregory Burgess (1945—), Victoria 2005 James Birrell (1928—2019), Queensland 2006 Kerry Hill (1943—2018), Western Australia 2007 Enrico Taglietti (1926—2019), ACT 2008 Richard Johnson (1946—), New South Wales 2009 Ken Maher (1948—), New South Wales 2010 Kerry Clare & Lindsay Clare, Queensland 2011 Graeme Gunn (1933—2024), Victoria 2012 Lawrence Nield (1941—), New South Wales 2013 Peter Wilson (1950—), Victoria/Germany 2014 Phil Harris & Adrian Welke, [Troppo Architects], Northern Territory 2015 Peter Stutchbury (1954—), New South Wales 2016 ARM Architecture (Ashton Raggatt McDougall), Victoria"ARM Architecture scoops Gold Medal at Architecture Awards" in The Fifth Estate, 2 May 2016 2017 Peter Elliott (1950—), Victoria 2018 Alexander Tzannes (1950—), New South Wales 2019 Hank Koning & Julie Eizenberg, [Koning Eizenberg Architecture], California, USA 2020 John Wardle (1956—), Victoria 2021 Donald Robert (Don) Watson (1945—), Victoria 2022 Sean Godsell (1960—), Victoria 2023 Kerstin Thompson (1965—), Victoria 2023 Maggie Edmond (see 2003 above), Victoria 2024 Philip Thalis, New South Wales 2025 Timothy Hill, Queensland 2026 Neil Durbach, Camilla Block & David Jaggers, [Durbach Block Jaggers], New South Wales

Distribution of Gold Medals

See also Australian Institute of Architects Awards and Prizes

References

External links Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal