Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture recognizes individuals for distinguished contributions to the field of architecture. The Medal in Architecture has been jointly awarded each year by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello and the University of Virginia School of Architecture since 1966.^[1] Along with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Citizen Leadership, and the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Global Innovation, the awards are the highest external honors bestowed by the University, which grants no honorary degrees.^[2]

Recipients

Year	Name	Country
1966	Mies van der Rohe	Chicago, Illinois
1967	Alvar Aalto	Helsinki, Finland
1968	Marcel Breuer	New York, New York
1969	John Ely Burchard	Boston, Massachusetts
1970	Kenzo Tange	Tokyo, Japan
1971	Josep Lluis Sert	Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
1972	Lewis Mumford	Amenia, New York
1973	Jean Labatut	Princeton, New Jersey
1974	Frei Otto	Warmbronn, West Germany
1975	Sir Nikolaus Pevsner	London, England
1976	I. M. Pei	New York, New York
1977	Ada Louise Huxtable	New York, New York
1978	Philip Johnson	New York, New York
1979	Lawrence Halprin	San Francisco, California
1980	Hugh Stubbins	Cambridge, Massachusetts
1981	Edward Larrabee Barnes	New York, New York
1982	Vincent J. Scully	New Haven, Connecticut
1983	Robert Venturi	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1984	H. H. Aga Khan	Gouvieux, France
1985	Leon Krier	London, England
1986	James Stirling	London, England
1987	Dan Kiley	Charlotte, Vermont
1988	Romaldo Giurgola	New York, New York
1989	Paul Mellon	Upperville, Virginia
1990	Fumihiko Maki	Tokyo, Japan
1991	John V. Lindsay	New York, New York
1992	Aldo Rossi	Milan, Italy
1993	Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andres Duany	Miami, Florida
1994	Frank O. Gehry	Los Angeles, California
1995	Ian McHarg	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1996	Jane Jacobs	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1997	Jaime Lerner	Curitiba, Brazil
1998	Jaquelin T. Robertson	New York, New York
1999	Richard Rogers	London, England
2000	Daniel Patrick Moynihan	New York, New York
2001	Glenn Murcutt	Sydney, Australia
2002	James Turrell	Flagstaff, Arizona
2003	Tod Williams and Billie Tsien	New York, New York
2004	Peter Walker	Berkeley, California
2005	Shigeru Ban	Tokyo, Japan
2006	Peter Zumthor	Haldenstein, Switzerland
2007	Zaha Hadid	Baghdad, Iraq
2008	Gro Harlem Brundtland	Oslo, Norway
2009	Robert Irwin	San Diego, California
2010	Edward O. Wilson	Cambridge, Massachusetts
2011	Maya Lin	New York, New York
2012	Rafael Moneo	Tudela, Navarre, Spain
2013	Laurie Olin	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2014	Toyo Ito	Tokyo, Japan
2015	Herman Hertzberger	Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016	Cecil Balmond	Sri Lanka
2017	Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara	Republic of Ireland
2018	Sir David Adjaye	United Kingdom
2019	Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa	Japan
2020	Weiss/Manfredi[3]	New York, New York
2021	Diébédo Francis Kéré[4]	Berlin, Germany
2022	Kenneth Frampton[5][6]	New York, New York