Soane Medal

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Soane Medal
Current: Hanif Kara
Awarded forIndividuals who have made a major contribution to architecture
First award2017;8 years ago (2017)
Final award2024
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

References

  1. ↑ "Hanif Kara Wins 2024 Soane Medal For Architecture". World Architecture. October 10, 2024. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Peter Barber OBE receives prestigious Soane Medal for his ground-breaking work in architecture". University of Westminster. November 29, 2022. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  3. ↑ "'I make architects' dreams come true': Hanif Kara, the magician who makes impossible buildings stay up". The Guardian. October 8, 2024. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Rafael Moneo to be awarded Inaugural Soane Medal for Contribution to Architecture". World Architecture. July 18, 2017. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  5. ↑ Darley, Gillian, (1999) John Soane An Accidental Romantic, Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-08165-7, p.316
  6. ↑ "'Soane Medal', gold version presented to Sir John Soane by the Architects of England, 1835". Sir John Soane‘s Museum. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  7. ↑ "Soane Medal". Sir John Soane‘s Museum. Retrieved November 26, 2024.
  8. ↑ "Rafael Moneo to be awarded Inaugural Soane Medal for Contribution to Architecture". World Architecture. July 18, 2017. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  9. ↑ "Rafael Moneo to be awarded Inaugural Soane Medal for Contribution to Architecture". World Architecture. July 18, 2017. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  10. ↑ "Denise Scott Brown to Receive the 2018 Soane Medal". Architect Magazine. September 6, 2018. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  11. ↑ "2019 Soane Medal to Kenneth Frampton". World Architects. September 13, 2019. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  12. ↑ "The Soane Medal 2021". YouTube . Retrieved November 16, 2021.
  13. ↑ "Peter Barber OBE receives prestigious Soane Medal for his ground-breaking work in architecture". University of Westminster. November 29, 2022. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  14. ↑ "Have I got mews for you: Peter Barber, the miracle creator of dazzling streets". The Guardian. November 8, 2022. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  15. ↑ "Architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal on the joy of reusing buildings rather than knocking them down". The Guardian. December 10, 2023. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  16. ↑ "Hanif Kara Wins 2024 Soane Medal For Architecture". World Architecture. October 10, 2024. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  17. ↑ "'I make architects' dreams come true': Hanif Kara, the magician who makes impossible buildings stay up". The Guardian. October 8, 2024. Retrieved November 24, 2024.


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