Members are invited to submit nominations for the The RIBA's 2010 Royal Gold Medal. Please submit the completed form by Friday 12 June 2009 for consideration. Nomination forms for the 2010 Honorary and International Fellowships are also available, deadline Friday 12 June 2009.
Given in recognition of a lifetime's work, the Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty the Queen and is awarded annually to a person or group of people whose influence on architecture has had a truly international effect.
The 2010 Honours Committee will be chaired by RIBA President Ruth Reed and a full list of committee members will be announced shortly.
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Established in 1848, the Royal Gold Medal is still celebrated today. This online exhibition has been especially created to coincide with the RIBA's 175th anniversary and takes you through the history, winners and more. Visit the online exhibition|.
The award is for a body of work, rather than for one building or for an architect who is currently fashionable. Previous winners include Le Corbusier (1953), Frank Gehry (2000), Archigram (2002), Frei Otto (2005), Toyo Ito |(2006), Herzog and de Meuron |(2007), Edward (Ted) Cullinan| (2008) and Alvaro Siza (2009).