Joseph Rykwert presented with 2014 Royal Gold Medal for architecture in London
By Bustler Editors|
Thursday, Feb 27, 2014
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Architectural historian and critic Joseph Rykwert was named the recipient of the 2014 RIBA Royal Gold Medal back in September 2013. Rykwert received the prestigious award at a special event at the RIBA in London this week.
Personally approved by the Queen of England, the Royal Gold Medal recognizes a lifetime's work of a person or group who have majorly influenced the advancement of architecture.
Joseph Rykwert is a world-leading authority on the history of art and architecture; his groundbreaking ideas and work have had a major impact on the thinking of architects and designers since the 1960s and continue to do so to this day.
His seminal book The Idea of a Town (1963) remains the pivotal text on understanding why and how cities were and can be formed. He has written numerous influential works of architectural criticism and history, published over a sixty-year period and translated into several languages. The most significant of these are On Adam's House in Paradise (1972), The First Moderns (1980), The Necessity of Artifice (1982), The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture (1996), and The Seduction of Place (2002); all have changed the way modern architects and planners think about cities and buildings, and how historians view the architectural roots of the modern era.
Rykwert’s works have influenced generations of architects with many either having been taught by him directly or taught in a school where his influence has had a profound effect on a department’s teaching. Distinguished architects David Chipperfield, Frank Gehry and Renzo Piano are amongst the previous Royal Gold Medalists who have personally supported Joseph’s nomination.
He joins previous theorists and largely non-practitioners to have been honored with the Royal Gold Medal including Colin Rowe (1995), Sir John Summerson (1976) and Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1967). Other recent winners have included Alvaro Siza, I. M. Pei, Sir David Chipperfield, Herman Hertzberger, and Peter Zumthor.
See our previous announcement of Rykwert's nomination here.
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