Awards - Arne Jacobsen Design

AWARDS & HONORS

From the 1920s, when he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, to his death in 1971, Arne Jacobsen was awarded a number of medals, grants and honors. The list is based on the work of Carsten Thau and Kjeld Vindum published in their monumental monograph Arne Jacobsen (1998).

1920s

1925

Silver medal for chair exhibited at the World’s fair, Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes, Paris

1927

Prize from Gentofte Municipality for Single-family home for Professor Sigurd Wandel

1928

The small gold medal from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts for a proposal for a national museum in Cottageparken, Klampenborg

1929

Prize from Gentofte Municipality for single-family home for Mrs E. Schoppe

1930s

1930

Grant from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Prize from Gentofte Municipality for single-family home for Captain E. Monrad-Aas

1933

Prize from Gentofte Municipality for single-family home for Head of Department Sv. B. Lauritzen

1934

Prize from Gentofte Municipality for the housing development Bellavista

1936

The Eckersberg Medal

Prize from Gentofte Municipality for single-family home for Dr Sven Johnsen

1937

Prize from Gentofte Municipality for a tennis hall for the sports club Hellerup Idrætsklub H.I.K.

Prize from the City of Copenhagen for single-family home for schoolteacher Karl Sørensen

Prize from Gentofte Municipality for Bellevue Theatre

1938

Prize from Gentofte Municipality for single-family home for K. Johnsen

1943

Prize from the City of Frederiksberg for facilities for Novo Terapeutisk Laboratorium

Prize from Gentofte Municipality for terraced houses for A/S Gentofte Rækkehuse

1945

Prize from the City of Copenhagen for a locker room building at the YMCA in Emdrup

1949

Prize from Gentofte Municipality for student housing for Gentofte Kommunes Ungdomsboliger

1950s

1953

Prize from Gentofte Municipality for the terraced houses Søholm I and II

Grand Prix in the international architecture exhibition 2nd Biennale in São Paulo, Brazil, for Massey Harris A/S offices and exhibition space

1955

Member of Akademiraadet (the Academy Council), the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen

1956

The C. F. Hansen Medal

Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (until 1965)

1957

Grand Prix at the XI Triennale in Milan for the Grand Prix chair

Silver medal at the XI Triennale in Milan for a loudspeaker

1958

Member of the jury for the Danish architecture prize, “Træprisen” (The Wood Prize)

1960s

1961

Le Grand Prix International du Comité de l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Paris

1962

Honorary Medal from the Danish Association of Architects

The Prince Eugen Medal from the Federation of Swedish Architects

Prize from Gentofte Municipality for single-family home for Gertie Wandel

Member of the American Institute of Architects

1963

The Fritz Schumacher Award, Hamburg

The RIBA Bronze Medal and Honorary Corresponding Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)

1964

Member of Akademie der Künste, Berlin

1965

Member of the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome

Member of the Académie Serbe des Sciences et des Arts, Belgrade

1966

Honorary doctorate at Oxford University, Great Britain

1967

Honorary doctorate at University of Strath Clyde, Glasgow

The ID Prize for the tableware series Cylinda Line

1968

The International Design Award for the tableware series Cylinda Line

1969

Gold medal, ‘Pio Manzu’, San Marino

Die Plakette der Freien Akademie der Künste (Plaque of the Free Academy of the Arts), Hamburg