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AIA Gold Medal
The AIA Gold Medal is awarded by the American Institute of Architects conferred "by the national AIA Board of Directors in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture."
It is the Institute's highest award. Since 1947, the medal has been...
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Charles Follen McKim
Charles Follen McKim FAIA (August 24, 1847–September 14, 1909) was one of the most prominent American Beaux-Arts architects of the late nineteenth century. Along with Stanford White, he provided the architectural expertise as a member of the...
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McKim, Mead, and White
McKim, Mead, and White was a prominent architectural firm in the eastern United States at the turn of the twentieth century. The firm's partners were Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909), William Rutherford Mead (1846-1928), and Stanford White (1853...
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Bernard Maybeck
Bernard Ralph Maybeck (February 7, 1862 – October 3, 1957) was a prominent architect in the Arts and Crafts Movement of the early 20th century.
Maybeck was born in New York City, the son of a German immigrant and studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts...
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Louis Skidmore
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Wallace Harrison
Wallace Kirkman Harrison (September 28, 1895 - December 2, 1981), was an American twentieth-century architect.
Harrison started his professional career with the firm of Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray, participating in the construction of Rockefeller...
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William Wurster
William Wilson Wurster (1895 - 1973) was an influential American architect and architectural teacher at the University of California, Berkeley and at MIT.
Wurster was born in Stockton, California and is strongly associated with the Bay Area and its...
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Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.
Fuller published more than thirty books, inventing and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth",...
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Louis Kahn
Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky) (February 20, 1901 or 1902 – March 17, 1974) was a world-renowned architect of Estonian Jewish origin, based in Philadelphia, United States. After working in various capacities for several companies...
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Richard Neutra
Richard Joseph Neutra (April 8, 1892 – April 16, 1970) is considered one of modernism's most important architects.
Neutra was born in Vienna on April 8 1892. He studied under Adolf Loos at the Technical University of Vienna, was influenced by Otto...
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Kevin Roche
Kevin Roche (born June 14, 1922) is an award-winning twentieth-century Irish-American architect. He is famous for his creative work with glass.
Born in Dublin, Roche graduated from University College Dublin in 1945. He then worked with Michael Scott...
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I. M. Pei
Ieoh Ming Pei (貝聿銘) (born April 26, 1917), commonly known by his initials I. M. Pei, is a Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese-born American architect, known as the last master of high modernist architecture.
Pei was born in Canton (pinyin: Guangzhou),...
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Nathaniel Alexander Owings
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Nathaniel A. Owings
Nathaniel Alexander Owings (February 5, 1903 - June 13, 1984) was an American architect, a founding partner of Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM), which became one of the largest architectural firms in the United States and the world. Owings viewed...
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Richard Meier
Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American architect, whose rationalist buildings make prominent use of the color white.
Meier was born in Newark, New Jersey. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957,...
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William Wayne Caudill
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Arthur Erickson
Arthur Charles Erickson, CC (June 14, 1924 – May 20, 2009) was an internationally celebrated Canadian architect and urban planner. He studied Asian languages at the University of British Columbia, and later earned a degree in architecture from...
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Joseph Esherick
Joseph Esherick (1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – December 17, 1998) was an American architect.
Graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1937, Esherick set up practice in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1953 and taught at University of...
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E. Fay Jones
E. Fay Jones, (January 31, 1921 – August 31, 2004) was a noted American architect and designer. He was an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright.
E. Fay Jones, (first name Euine which is pronounced U-wan and is an old Welsh form of John), was born in Pine...
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Charles Willard Moore
Charles Willard Moore (October 31, 1925 – December 16, 1993) was an American architect, educator, writer, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and winner of the AIA Gold Medal in 1991.
Moore graduated from the University of Michigan in...
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Benjamin C. Thompson
Benjamin C. Thompson (July 3, 1918 – August 21, 2002) was an American architect.
Thompson was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, graduated from Yale University in 1941, then spent four years in the United States Navy fighting in World War II. After the...
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Thomas Jefferson
The third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, had an ambivalent relationship with the institution of slavery. During his lifetime, Jefferson attempted twice to legislate the emancipation of slaves, one time in 1769 at the Virginia...
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Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando (安藤 忠雄, Andō Tadao, born September 13, 1941, in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was once categorized as critical regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to...
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César Pelli
César Pelli (born October 12, 1926 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina) is an Argentine architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. His designs are known for their curved facades and metallic...
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Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Canadian Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles.
His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. Many museums, companies, and...
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Sir Norman Foster
Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM, FRIBA, FCSD, RDI, (born 1 June 1935) is a English architect whose company maintains an international design practice. He is Britain's most prolific builder of landmark office buildings. In 2009...
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Ricardo Legorreta
Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis is a Mexican architect. He was born in Mexico City on May 7, 1931. He studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He was awarded the prestigeous UIA Gold Medal in 1999.
Legorreta is a disciple of...
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Michael Graves
Michael Graves (born July 9, 1934) is an American architect. Identified as one of The New York Five, Graves has become a household name with his designs for domestic products sold at Target stores in the United States.
Graves was born in...
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Samuel Mockbee
Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee (23 December 1944–30 December 2001) was an American architect and a co-founder of the Auburn University Rural Studio program in Hale County, Alabama.
Mockbee's architectural partnership with Coleman Coker was recognized for an...
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Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava Valls (born 28 July 1951) is an internationally recognized and award-winning Valencian Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zurich, Switzerland. Classed now among the elite designers of...
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Antoine Predock
Antoine Predock (born 1936 in Lebanon, Missouri) is an American architect based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Antoine Predock is the Principal of Antoine Predock Architect PC. The studio was established in 1967. Predock attended the University of New...
