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The RIBA's 2009 Royal Gold Medallist |has been announced. The medal will be presented at a black-tie dinner at the RIBA in February 2009, along with the 2009 Honorary and International Fellowships.

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 2009 Honours Committee was chaired by RIBA President Sunand Prasad and comprised of architects Sir Jeremy Dixon of Dixon Jones, Prof Kenneth Frampton of Columbia University, Despina Katsikakis of design consultancy DEGW, Pankaj Patel of Patel Taylor, writer Sir Peter Davey OBE and engineer Jane Wernick Hon FRIBA.

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) and Edward Cullinan| (2008).