The C. F. Hansen Medal is awarded annually with few exceptions to one or more recipients by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts for an outstanding contribution to architecture. It is the Academy's highest obtainable destinction for an architect. It is named after the architect C. F. Hansen

Christian Frederik Hansen

Christian Frederik Hansen , known as C.F. Hansen, was the leading Danish architect between the late 18th century and the mid 19th century, and on account of his position at the Royal Danish Academy of Art the most powerful person in artistic circles for many years...

 and has been awarded since 1830.

Recipients

Year	Recipient
1833	Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll Michael Gottlieb Birckner Bindesbøll was a Danish architect active during the Danish Golden Age in the first half of the 19th century. Most known for his design of Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen, he was a key figure in the stylistic shift in Danish architecture from late classicism to Historicism...
1835	Niels Sigfred Nebelong Niels Sigfred Nebelong Niels Sigfred Nebelong was a Danish architect who worked in the Historicist style. He was city architect in Copenhagen from 1863 and also designed many lighthouses around Denmark in his capacity as resident architect for the Danish lighthouse authority.-Early life and education:Niels Sigfred...
1838	Laurits Albert Winstrup
1841	Harald Conrad Stilling
1850	Ferdinand Meldahl
1856	Christian Vilhelm Nielsen
1859	Vilhelm Dahlerup Vilhelm Dahlerup Jens Vilhelm Dahlerup was a Danish architect who specialized in the Historicist style. One of the most productive and noted Danish architects of the 19th century, he is behind many of the most known buildings and landmarks of his time and has more than any other single architect contributed to the...
1875	Peter Christian Bønecke
1886	Vilhelm Friederichsen
1891	Vilhelm Holck
1893	Axel Berg Axel Berg Dr. Axel Berg is a German politician and member of the SPD.Berg, MP for Munich-North, was the only directly elected member of the Bavarian SPD member in the Bundestag until his defeat at the 2009 German federal election....
1907	Sven Risom Sven Risom Sven Julius Risom was a Danish architect who worked mainly in the style of Nordic Classicism.-Biography:...
1914	Thomas Havning
1917	Ejnar Dyggve
1918	Charles Christensen Christian Kampmann
1921	Marius Pedersen
1924	Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint was a Danish architect, designer, painter and architectural theorist, best known for designing Grundtvig's Church in Copenhagen, generally considered to be one of the most important Danish architectural works of the time...
1926	Holger Jacobsen Holger Jacobsen Holger Jacobsen was a Danish architect. His best known work is Stærekassen, an extension to the Royal Danish Theatre on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen.-Biography:Holger Jacobsen was born on 30 October 1876 in Odense...
1943	Ivar Bentsen Ivar Bentsen Ivar Bentsen was a Danish architect.-External links:*...
1945	Gudmund Nyeland Brandt Gudmund Nyeland Brandt Gudmund Nyeland Brandt was a Danish landscape architect who was internationally renowned.-Career:...
1947	Kay Fisker Kay Fisker Kay Otto Fisker was a Danish architect, designer and educator. He is most known for his many housing projects, mainly in the Copenhagen area, and is considered a leading exponent of the Danish Functionalism.... Christian Frederik Møller
1950	Ejnar Dyggve
1954	Vilhelm Lauritzen Vilhelm Lauritzen Vilhelm Lauritzen was a leading Danish modernist architect, founder of the still active architectural firm Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter.-Biography:... Kaare Klint
1955	Arne Jacobsen Arne Jacobsen Arne Emil Jacobsen, usually known as Arne Jacobsen, was a Danish architect and designer. He is remembered for contributing so much to architectural Functionalism as well as for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple but effective chair designs.-Early life and education:Arne Jacobsen was born...
1963	Mogens Koch Mogens Koch Mogens Koch was a Danish architect and furniture designer and, from 1950 to 1968, a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He was married to the weaver Eva Koch.-Early life and education:...
1966	Frederik Christian Lund
1967	Jørn Utzon Jørn Utzon Jørn Oberg Utzon, , AC was a Danish architect, most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. When it was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, Utzon became only the second person to have received such recognition for one of his works during his lifetime...
1971	Mogens Lassen Mogens Lassen Mogens Lassen was a Modernist Danish architect and designer, working within the idiom of the International Style. He mainly designed residential buildings, both in the form of single-family houses and apartment blocks...
1972	Børge Mogensen
1973	Peter Bredsdorff
1977	Steen Eiler Rasmussen Steen Eiler Rasmussen Steen Eiler Rasmussen 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...
1978	Lis Ahlmann
1979	Vilhelm Wohlert Vilhelm Wohlert Vilhelm Wohlert was a Danish architect.Wohlert was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' School of Architecture, where one of his teachers was Kaare Klint. In 1958 he and his partner Jørgen Bo started work on the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, a project on which they would work for...
1980	Viggo Møller-Jensen
1982	Hans J. Wegner
1983	Jørgen Bo
1985	Henning Larsen Henning Larsen Henning Larsen is a Danish architect.He is internationally known for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadhand the Copenhagen Opera House...
1986	Tegnestuen Vandkunsten Tegnestuen Vandkunsten Tegnestuen Vandkunsten a/s, often referred to simply as Vandkunsten, is a Danish architectural firm founded in 1970. Vandkunsten were awarded the Alvar Aalto Medal in 2009 for being a "modern interpretor and elaborator of Alvar Aalto's ideological heritage". This was the first time that the Alvar...
1987	Knud Friis/Elmar Moltke Nielsen
1988	Johan Richter Johan Richter Johan Richter or Giovanni Richter was a Baroque painter, born in Sweden, but painting mainly landscapes or veduta of Venice....
1989	Vibeke Klint Erik Christian Sørensen
1991	Otto Weitling Nanna Ditzel Nanna Ditzel Nanna Ditzel was a Danish furniture designer.She studied at the Danish School of Arts and Crafts and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen graduating in 1946. Her works include cabinet-making, jewellery, tableware and textiles...
1992	Inger and Johannes Exner Gertrud Vasegaard
1993	Knud Holscher Knud Holscher Knud Helmuth Holscher , Danish architect and industrial designer of international renown.-Biography:Holscher studied with Erik Christian Sørensen and professor Arne Jacobsen at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, graduating in 1957... Karen & Ebbe Clemmensen
1995	Erik Korshagen
1996	Sven-Ingvar Andersson
1998	Tegnestuen Vandkunsten Tegnestuen Vandkunsten Tegnestuen Vandkunsten a/s, often referred to simply as Vandkunsten, is a Danish architectural firm founded in 1970. Vandkunsten were awarded the Alvar Aalto Medal in 2009 for being a "modern interpretor and elaborator of Alvar Aalto's ideological heritage". This was the first time that the Alvar...
1989	Gehrdt Bornebusch
2000	Knud Munk Hans Munk Hansen Niels Fagerholt
2002	Grethe Meyer Hanne Kjærholm
2003	Jørn Palle Schmidt
2004	Poul Ingemann Gutte Eriksen
2006	Lene Tranberg Lene Tranberg Lene Tranberg is a Danish architect, head architect and co-founder of Lundgaard & Tranberg.-History:Lene Tranberg was born in Copenhagen in 1956. In 1977, she was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture where she studied under Erik Christian Sørensen... Tyge Arnfred
2008	Dorte Mandrup Dorte Mandrup Dorte Mandrup-Poulsen is a Danish architect, founder and owner of the architectural practice Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter which is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.-Biography:...
2009	Kim Herforth Nielsen Kim Herforth Nielsen Kim Herforth Nielsen is a Danish architect, co-founder and principal of 3XN.-Biography:Nielsen graduated from the Aarhus School of Architecture in 1981 and was one of the three Nielsen-founders in 1986...
2010	Erik Hansen
2011	Ulrik Plesner