The Gold Medal is the AIA’s highest annual honour, recognising individuals whose work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. Considered one of the most prestigious awards in the architecture world, the Gold Medal has been received by well renowned architects such as Moshe Safdie, Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Paul Revere Williams.

The AA congratulates Lord Richard Rogers (AADipl 1960) on being announced as the 2019 Gold Medal recipient.

'We know that architecture is a discipline of enormous political and social consequence,' Lord Peter Palumbo of Walbrook wrote of Rogers. 'And today we celebrate Richard Rogers, a humanist who reminds us that architecture is the most social of arts. Throughout his long, innovative careers, Rogers shows us that, perhaps, the architect’s most lasting role is that of a good citizen of the world.'

Read more on the AIA website here

Image: Reyner Banham, Lloyds Bank Headquarters-London, 1985, AA Photo