Gold Medal Recipients
 


 

Elizabeth Diller is a principal and co-founder of the inter-disciplinary studio, Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Their work encompasses architecture, urban design, temporary and permanent site-specific installations, multi-media theater, electronic media, and print.

DS+R is currently working on various projects for Lincoln Center such as the Julliard School, Alice Tully Hall, and the School of American Ballet; The High Line, a park situated on the obsolete railway running through the Chelsea neighborhood of New York; and the Kopp Townhouse, a private residence in Manhattan. DS+R’s new building for the Boston Institute for Contemporary Art opened in December 2006.

DS+R has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the first in the field of architecture; the National Design Award in Architecture from the Smithsonian; the Brunner Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the MacDermott Award for Creative Achievement from MIT; an Obie Award for Creative Achievement in Off Broadway Theater for their multi-media theater work, "Jet Lag”; and a Progressive Architecture Design Award for the "Blur Building," a building made of fog for the Swiss Expo 2002. Diller is Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.


   2008 Elizabeth Diller
   2007 Richard Rogers

   2006 Shigeru Ban

   2005 Martha Schwartz

   2004 Mary Miss, NYC, NY

   2003 Michael Graves, Princeton, NJ

   2002 Cynthia Weese, St. Louis, MO

   2001 Malcolm Holzman, NY
   2000 Pierre Koenig, CA
   1999 William Curtis, NY
   1998 William Pedersen, NY
   1997 Ceasar Pelli, CT
   1996 Vincent Scully, NY
   1995 Peter Eisenman, NY
   1994 Harvey B. Gantt, Charlotte, NC
   1993 Harold F. Adams, Baltimore, MD
   1992 Charles Moore, Austin, TX (repeat)
   1991 Denise Scott-Brown, Philadelphia, PA
   1990 Joseph Escherick, San Francisco, CA
   1989 Richard Meier, New York, NY
   1988 Kenneth Frampton, New York, NY
   1987 Lawrence Halprin, San Francisco, CA
   1986 Walter A. Netsch, Chicago, IL
   1985 Pietro Bulluschi, Portland, OR
   1984 E. Fay Jones, Fayetteville, AR
   1983 Ricardo Legoretta, Mexico
   1982 Mosha Safdie, Israel
   1981 Charles Moore, Los Angeles, CA
   1980 Alexander Girard, Santa Fe, NM
   1979 Edmond Bacon, Philadelphia, PA
   1978 William Caudill, Houston, TX
   1977 Harry Weese, Chicago, IL
   1976 Vincent G. Kling, Philadelphia, PA
   1975 Hugh Stubbins, Cambridge, MA
   1974 Ian McHarg, Philadelphia, PA
   1973 Arthur Erickson, Vancouver, B.C.
   1972 O’Neil Ford, San Antonio, TX
   1971 Gunnar Birkets, Detroit, MI
   1970 Norman Fletcher, Boston, MA