AIA Seattle Gold Medal

The AIA Seattle Gold Medal, the highest award that AIA Seattle can bestow on one of its members, recognizes distinguished lifetime achievement in architecture, including design and professional practice and service to the profession, the community, education and the arts.

When first given in 1984, its originators hoped that their successors would give the Medal “with great consideration and care – even reluctance – only to those architects who have made singularly distinguished contributions to design, to the profession, and to the Chapter; to [those] who over the years have given us glimpses and insight into the broader possibilities of architecture; those who have provided us the opportunity to observe that most important element of creative lives; and to those who by their talents and accomplishments have demonstrated that architecture, practiced this way, becomes much more than a profession.”

The first Medal recipients were Paul Hayden Kirk FAIA and Paul Thiry FAIA. Then and since, the Medal recognizes architects who have had a substantial influence in shaping and advancing architecture in the Pacific Northwest as it grows in national and international importance.

The AIA Seattle’s Fellows and Honors Committee invites AIA Seattle members to bring forward names of candidates for this award for the committee’s recommendation to the AIA Seattle Board of Directors. Each year after the AIA Convention, AIA Seattle presents the Medal and other AIA Seattle Honors at the AIA Seattle President’s Dinner.

Gold Medal Recipients

2029-2020

2019-2010

2009-2000

1999-1990

1989-1980