Architecture Awards Season

​Award: AIA Gold Medal.
Sponsor: American Institute of Architects.
Goal: A work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture.
2016 Recipients: Denise Scott Brow & Robert Venturi.

Award: Alvar Aalto Medal.
Sponsor: Finnish Association of Architects.
Goal: Significant Contribution to creative architecture.
2015 Recipients: Fuensanta Nieto & Enrique Sobejano.
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It's been a couple of days and all I'm reading is "this architect won this award" and "that building won that award", So I guess it's Architecture Awards Season! 

With Wikipedia help, Design Reader magazine have prepared a list of all the Global Architectural Awards their sponsor, goals and the latest winners recipients to date.

List of Global Architecture Awards

Award: International Architecture Awards.
Sponsor: Chicago Athenaeum, ECAADUC, Metropolitan Arts Press.
Goal: the most outstanding architecture designed and built or unbuilt throughout the world.
2015 Recipients: Winners can be found here
https://chi-athenaeum.org/the-2015-awards/

Award: Pritzker Prize.
Sponsor: Pritzker Family & Hyatt Foundation.
2015 Recipients: Frei Otto.
Goal: honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.

Award: Royal Gold Medal.
Sponsor: Royal Institute of British Architects.
Recipients: Zaha Hadid (2016).
Goal: an individual's or group's substantial contribution to international architecture.

Award: Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture.
Sponsor: Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
Goal: A notable achievement in design or for distinguished contributions to the field of architecture.
Recipients: Herman Hertzberger.

Award: UIA Gold Medal.
Sponsor: The International Union of Architects.
Goal: an architect (or group of architects) having distinguished themselves through their work and professional practice by the quality of services rendered to man and society.
2015 Recipients: Ieoh Ming Pei.

Award: Venice Biennale of Architecture
Sponsor: Venice Biennale
Goal: Lifetime Achievement
2015 Recipients: Golden Lion: Phyllis Lambert

Award: Wolf Prize in Arts
Sponsor: Wolf Foundation
2013 Recipients: Eduardo Souto de Moura (2013)

Award: Louis I. Kahn Memorial Award.
Sponsor: Philadelphia Center for Architecture.
Goal: Excellence in architecture.
2015 Recipients: Norman Foster.

Award: Moriyama RAIC International Prize
Sponsor: Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
2015 Recipients: Li Xiaodong (2014)

Award: Praemium Imperiale.
Sponsor: Japan Art Association.
Goal: Outstanding contributions to the development, promotion and progress of the arts.
2015 Recipients: Dominique Perrault.
 
Award: World Architecture Festival
Sponsor: EMAP
Goal: Architectural excellence from across the globe
2013 Recipients: World Building of the Year: The Interlace, by Office for                                                Metropolitan Architecture
                              Future Project of the Year: Vancouver House, by Bjarke Ingels                                   Group
                              Landscape of the Year: Yanweizhou Park
                              Small Project Prize: Lidingövallen
                              AkzoNobel's Prize for Colour in Exterior Architecture: 
                              ONS INCEK Showroom & Sales Office
                              Student Charrette Winner: School of Planning and Architecture,                                Bhopal







 







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