Soane Medal

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Soane Medal
Current: Hanif Kara
First awarded2017;7 years ago (2017)
Last awarded2024
Website www.soane.org/soane-medal

The Soane Medal, established in 2017, is an international award presented annually by Sir John Soane's Museum.

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The prestigious Soane Medal honours architects, academics, and critics who have significantly advanced and enhanced public understanding of architecture through their work in practice, history, or theory. [1]

The winner is selected annually by a panel of distinguished architects, critics and curators, initially led by former Trustee of Sir John Soane’s Museum, Sir David Chipperfield. [2]

The British, Uganda-born engineer Hanif Kara was announced as the 2024 recipient of the illustrious Medal, which had previously been awarded to architects and their theorists, but never before to an engineer. [3]

The recipient of the Medal delivers a lecture at a special event, open to all, and also receives a replica of the original gold medal presented to Sir John Soane by the ‘Architects of England’ in 1835. [4] Modelled by Sir Francis Chantrey, the medal shows the likeness of Soane on one side and the north-west corner of the Bank of England on the other. [5] [6]

The Soane Medal is supported by Hamish and Sophie Forsyth. [7]

Medalists

Inaugural winner Rafael Moneo was cited for embodying "the idea of architecture as something that resides not just in the structure and the materials of a building, but in time and place, word and image, people and community". [8]

Soane Medal winners
YearMedalistsNationality
2017 Rafael Moneo [9] Spain
2018 Denise Scott Brown [10] United States of America
2019 Kenneth Frampton [11] United Kingdom
2021 Marina Tabassum [12] Bangladesh
2022 Peter Barber [13] [14] United Kingdom
2023 Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal [15] France
2024 Hanif Kara [16] [17] Uganda, United Kingdom

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