The AIA Gold Medal is awarded by the American Institute of Architects conferred "by the national AIA Board of Directors in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory
British architect Sir Aston Webb was the first recipient of the Gold Medal in 1907.
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He was a founder of Ba
AIA Gold Medal
…1960: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Germany-U.S.) 1959: Walter Adolph Gropius (Germany-U.S.) 1958: John Wellborn Root (Posthumous) (U.S…
Portrait by Louis Held, c. 1919
Gropius's Monument to the March Dead (1921) was dedicated to the memory of nine workers who died in Weimar resisting the Kapp Putsch.
Modern reconstruction of Gropius's house in Dessau which was destroyed during World War II.
Gropius with Harry Seidler in Sydney, Australia, in 1954