The Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal (Heinrich-Tessenow-Medaille) is an architecture award established in 1963 by the

Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. The Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. is a German foundation established in 1931 by the Hamburg merchant Alfred Toepfer. The foundation is committed to promoting European unification and ensuring cultural diversity and understanding between the countr ...

of Hamburg in honour of

Heinrich Tessenow Heinrich Tessenow (7 April 1876 – 1 November 1950) was a German architect, professor, and urban planner active in the Weimar era. Biography Tessenow is considered together with Hans Poelzig, Bruno Taut, Peter Behrens, Fritz Höger, Ernst ...

. It is awarded by the Heinrich-Tessenow-Gesellschaft e.V. "to honour people who have achieved distinction in craft and industrial form-making and in the teaching of the culture of living and building, and who have through their life's work acted in the spirit of Heinrich Tessenow".London School of Economics and Political Science: ''Richard Sennett to receive the Heinrich Tessenow Medal''
retrieved 29 December 2011 Until 2006, the medal was awarded annually.

Winners

* 1963:

Franz Schuster Franz Schuster (26 December 1892 – 24 July 1972) was an Austrian architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele ...

, Vienna * 1964:

Kay Fisker Kay Otto Fisker, Hon. FAIA (14 February 1893 – 21 June 1965) was a Danish architect, designer and educator. He is mostly known for his many housing projects, mainly in the Copenhagen area, and is considered a leading exponent of Danish Functi ...

, Copenhagen * 1965: , Hanover * 1966: , Dresden * 1967: , Stuttgart * 1968:

Wilhelm Wagenfeld Wilhelm Wagenfeld (15 April 1900, Bremen, German Empire — 28 May 1990, Stuttgart, West Germany) was an important German industrial designer and former student of the Bauhaus art school. He designed glass and metal works for the Jenaer Glaswe ...

, Stuttgart * 1969: , Stuttgart * 1970: Wilhelm Hübotter, Hanover * 1971: , Munich * 1972: , Munich * 1973:

Steen Eiler Rasmussen Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Hon. FAIA (9 January 1898 – 19 June 1990) was a Danish architect and urban planner who was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a prolific writer of books and poetry. He was made a Royal Designer f ...

, Copenhagen * 1974: , Baden-Baden * 1975: , Hamburg * 1976: Arnold Braune, Oldenburg i. Old. * 1977: , Hamburg * 1978: , Bremen * 1979: Hellmut Weber, Stuttgart * 1980: Helmut Hentrich, Düsseldorf * 1981: , Dragør, Denmark * 1982: , Nuremberg * 1983: Kornel E. Polgar, Waddingsveen, Holland * 1984: , Cologne * 1985: , Munich * 1986: , Copenhagen, Denmark, and , Eichstätt * 1987: , Hamburg * 1988: , Vienna * 1989:

Peter Zumthor Peter Zumthor (; born 26 April 1943) is a Swiss architect whose work is frequently described as uncompromising and minimalist. Though managing a relatively small firm, he is the winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize and 2013 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. E ...

, Haldenstein * 1990: Erich Kulka, Bussau im Wendland and , Gehrden * 1991: Theodor Hugues, Munich * 1992:

Giorgio Grassi Giorgio Grassi (born 1935) is one of Italy's most important modern architects, and part of the so-called Italian rationalist school, also known as ''La Tendenza'', associated most famously with Carlo Aymonino and Aldo Rossi that emerged in Italy ...

, Milan * 1993:

Massimo Carmassi Massimo Carmassi (born 5 June 1943 in San Giuliano Terme near Pisa) is an Italian architect. Biography Massimo Carmassi graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Florence in 1970. In 1974, he established the Project Office of the Commun ...

, Pisa * 1994: , Munich * 1995: not awarded * 1996: , Dresden and Cologne * 1997:

Sverre Fehn Sverre Fehn (14 August 1924 – 23 February 2009) was a Norwegian architect. Life Fehn was born at Kongsberg in Buskerud, Norway. He was the son of John Tryggve Fehn (1894–1981) and Sigrid Johnsen (1895–1985). He received his architectu ...

, Oslo * 1998:

Juan Navarro Baldeweg Juan Navarro Baldeweg (11 June 1939, Santander) is a Spanish architect and professor at the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM). He is currently retired from architectural practice. Baldeweg studied at the San Fernand ...

, Madrid * 1999:

David Chipperfield Sir David Alan Chipperfield, (born 18 December 1953) is an English architect. He established David Chipperfield Architects in 1985. His major works include the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (1989–1998); the Museum ...

, London * 2000:

Heinz Tesar Heinz Tesar (born June 16, 1939 in Innsbruck) is an Austrian architect who has an international reputation for his church and museum architecture. Life Tesar studied architecture from 1961 to 1965 at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in the mast ...

, Vienna * 2001:

Eduardo Souto de Moura Eduardo Elísio Machado Souto de Moura (; born 25 July 1952), better known as Eduardo Souto de Moura, is a Portuguese architect who was the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2011 and the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2013. Along with Ferna ...

, Porto * 2002: , Zurich * 2003: Mikko Heikkinen and Markku Komonen, Helsinki * 2004:

Gilles Perraudin The Gilles are the oldest and principal participants in the Carnival of Binche in Belgium. They go out on Shrove Tuesday from 4 am until late hours and dance to traditional songs. Other cities, such as La Louvière and Nivelles, have a traditi ...

, Lyon * 2005: , Zurich and Prague * 2006: Sergison Bates, London * 2007: not awarded * 2008: not awarded * 2009:

Richard Sennett Richard Sennett (born 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and former University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He is currently a Senior Fellow of the Center on Capitalis ...

, New York City * 2010: not awarded * 2011: Roger Diener, Basel * 2012: not awarded * 2013: Alberto Campo Baeza, Madrid * 2014:

Winfried Brenne Winfried is a masculine German given name. Notable people with the name include: * Winfried Berkemeier (born 1953), former German footballer * Winfried Bischoff (born 1941), German-British businessperson * Winfried Bönig (born 1959), German organi ...

, Berlin * 2016:

Anne Lacaton Anne Lacaton (born 2 August 1955) is a French architect and educator. She runs the architectural practice Lacaton & Vassal, with Jean-Philippe Vassal. The pair were jointly awarded the 2021 Pritzker Prize. Early life and education She was bor ...

and

Jean-Philippe Vassal Jean-Philippe Vassal (; born 22 February 1954) is a French architect and academic. He runs the architectural practice Lacaton & Vassal, with Anne Lacaton. The pair were jointly awarded the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Early life and educ ...

, Paris * 2017:

Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani (born 1951, in Rome, Italy) is an architect, architectural theorist and architectural historian An architectural historian is a person who studies and writes about the history of architecture, and is regarded as ...

, Zürich * 2018: , Basel * 2019: , Paris

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Architecture awards German awards Awards established in 1963