(Awarded annually to an individual for distinguished service to the architectural profession or to the institute. It is the institute's highest honor.)

1960 — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Chicago

1961 — Le Corbusier, Paris

1962 — Eero Saarinen, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

1963 — Alvar Aalto, Helsinki

1964 — Pier Luigi Nervi, Rome

1965 —No Award

1966 — Kenzo Tange, Tokyo

1967 — Wallace K. Harrison, New York

1968 — Marcel Breuer, New York

1969 —William W. Wurster, San Francisco