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 coun ...
of Hamburg in honour of
Heinrich Tessenow
Heinrich Tessenow (7 April 1876 – 1 November 1950) was a German architect, professor, and urban planner active at the time of the Weimar Republic.
Biography
Tessenow is considered together with Hans Poelzig, Bruno Taut, Peter Behrens, ...
. 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 (), officially the Games of the XI Olym ...
, Vienna
* 1964: Kay Fisker
Kay Otto Fisker (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 Functionalism.
...
, 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 a German industrial designer and former student of the Bauhaus art school. He designed glass and metal works for the Jenaer Glaswerk Schot ...
, 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 ...
, Copenhagen
* 1974: , Baden-Baden
* 1975: , Hamburg
* 1976: Arnold Braune, Oldenburg i. Old.
* 1977: , Hamburg
* 1978: , Bremen
* 1979: Hellmut Weber, Stuttgart
* 1980: Helmut Hentrich
Helmut Hentrich (17 June 1905 – 7 February 2001) was a German architect who became particularly known for his striking high-rise buildings in the 1960s and 1970s. The architectural firm he founded, ''Hentrich, Petschnigg und Partner (HPP)'', st ...
, 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 and not being a prolific architect, he is the winner of the 2009 Pritzker Pri ...
, Haldenstein
* 1990: Erich Kulka
Erich Kulka (18 February 191112 July 1995) was a Czech-Israeli writer, historian and journalist who survived the Holocaust. After World War II, he made it his life's mission to research the Holocaust and publicize facts about it.
Biography
...
, Bussau im Wendland and , Gehrden
* 1991: Theodor Hugues, Munich
* 1992: Giorgio Grassi
Giorgio Grassi (born 27 October 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 emerg ...
, 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: Peter Kulka
Peter Kulka (20 July 1937 – 5 February 2024) was a German architect.
Biography
Born in Dresden on 20 July 1937, Kulka completed a masonry apprenticeship and attended the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin alongside Selman Selmanagić. He fled fr ...
, 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 architect ...
, Oslo
* 1998: Juan Navarro Baldeweg
Juan Navarro Baldeweg (born June 11, 1939, in Santander, Cantabria) is a Spanish architect, painter, and sculptor. He directs the architectural studio Navarro Baldeweg Asociados in Madrid.
Biografía
Between 1959 and 1960, he studied engr ...
, Madrid
* 1999: David Chipperfield
Sir David Alan Chipperfield, , (born 18 December 1953) is a British architect. He established David Chipperfield Architects in 1985, which grew into a global architectural practice with offices in London, Berlin, Milan, Shanghai, and Santiago d ...
, London
* 2000: Heinz Tesar
Heinz Tesar (16 June 1939 – 18 January 2024) was an Austrian architect who had an international reputation for his church and museum architecture.
Life and career
Tesar studied architecture from 1961 to 1965 at the Akademie der bildenden Künste ...
, 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 Fe ...
, 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 a.m. until late hours and dance to traditional songs. Other cities, such as Ressaix, Leval, Buvrinnes, Épinois, ...
, 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 an American sociologist who 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 F ...
, New York City
* 2010: not awarded
* 2011: Roger Diener, Basel
* 2012: not awarded
* 2013: Alberto Campo Baeza
Alberto Campo Baeza (born in 1946, in Valladolid) is a Spanish architect and Full-Time Design Professor at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid from 1986 to 2017. He retired the same year. He has built a number of buildings t ...
, 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 (1941–2023), German-British businessperson
*Winfried Bönig (born 1959), German organis ...
, 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 b ...
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 edu ...
, Paris
* 2017: Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani
Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani (born 1951, in Rome, Italy) is an architect, Architectural theory, architectural theorist and History of architecture, architectural historian as well as a Professor (highest academic rank), professor emeritus for the ...
, Zürich
* 2018: , Basel
* 2019: , Paris
* 2023: 6a architects, London
References
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External links
Heinrich-Tessenow-Medaille
European architecture awards
German awards
Awards established in 1963