The AIA Seattle Medal of Honor (later known as the AIA Seattle Gold Medal) the highest honor conferred on an individual, recognizes distinguished lifetime achievement in architecture, including design and professional practice and service to the profession, the community, education and the arts.
2022: Rick Mohler FAIA
2021: Anne Schopf FAIA
2020: Walter Schacht FAIA
2019: (not awarded)
2018: Tom Kundig FAIA
2017: Bert Gregory FAIA
2016: Marilyn Brockman AIA
2015: Donald King FAIA
2014: Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton FAIA
2013: Rick Sundberg FAIA
2012: James Cutler FAIA
2011: Ed Weinstein FAIA
2010: David Miller FAIA and Robert Hull FAIA
2009: George Suyama FAIA
2008: James O. Jonassen FAIA
2007: Jim Olson FAIA
2006: Johnpaul Jones FAIA
2005: David Hewitt FAIA
2004: John F. Nesholm FAIA
2003: Thomas L. Bosworth FAIA
2002: David Hoedemaker FAIA
2001: Carolyn D. Geise FAIA
2000: Lee G. Copeland FAIA
1999: David McKinley FAIA
1998: Arne Bystrom FAIA
1997: William J. Bain Jr. FAIA
1996: John Morse FAIA
1995: L. Jane Hastings FAIA, Henry Klein FAIA
1994: Phillip L. Jacobson FAIA
1993: Wendell Lovett FAIA
1992: not given
1991: Roland Terry FAIA
1990: Norman J. Johnston FAIA
1989: Ibsen Nelsen FAIA
1988: Fred Bassetti FAIA, Anthony Callison AIA (posthumous)
1987: Albert O. Bumgardner FAIA
1986: not given
1985: Robert L. Durham FAIA