2007    Krijn de Koning

For an oeuvre in which color and form, as well as feeling and atmosphere, evokes a sensual experience of space that raises theissue of interaction between the public and the built environment in a unique way.

2004    HEMA

For the chain store’s remarkable use of form and colour within various retail concepts (from product packaging via publicity and shop fitting to the design and organisation of the website).

 

1999    Internationale Bauausstellung Emscher Park

For the way that this event, by means of a variety of projects, supports the transformation from a former industrial zone into a new type of cultural landscape.

  

Claudio Magris

For his contribution to the exploration of Europe’s cultural landscape and its significance for the European debate on identity.

  

1997    John Cage

On the basis of his research into and publications about the role and meaning of colour in the history of Western culture.

  

1995    Propreté de Paris

For the consistent use of the colour green in equipment and uniforms, which has led to the people of Paris becoming aware of the issues of refuse and the environment and to a more dignified identity of the people working for the service.

            

            Adriaan Geuze

For his alert response to the changing view of the city and nature with designs that do not eschew experiment, and for his cautious ingenuity and his surprising aesthetic vocabulary.

  

            Jan Dibbets

For his stained glass designs for the cathedral in Blois and the church of St Gertrude in Wijlre, where, as in his autonomous work, it is a question of a controlled balance between form and background - in this case, light.

  

1993    Donald Judd

For a brilliant body of work and for the moral clarity and tenacity that it typifies, from the overall form down to the smallest details of construction and colouring.

  

1991    Seamus Heany/Reinbert de Leeuw

For underlining the importance that colour and patterning can have, unhindered by the material limits of the strictly visual.

  

1989    Oriol Bohigas

For his role in supervising Barcelona’s reconstruction and urban development, for his research into architectural history whereby he restored the city’s awareness of its architectural heritage and for the major role that he ascribes to art, philosophy and literature in understanding, interpreting and organising public space.

  

1987    Luciano Fabro

Because of the unique way in which his work suggests that colour is not abstract, but an optical experience partly dependent on atmospheric conditions at the place of observation.

 

1985    Germano Tagliasacchi & Riccardo Zanetta

For their stunning research into what, from an historical point of view, was a unique colour scheme for the city of Turin in the period 1800-1850.

  

            Benno Premsela

Because of the great social merits that he has provided by involving himself with product innovation in a highly personal, fundamental and creative manner as designer, advisor and stimulator.

  

1983    Carel Weeber

For his innovative designs in the field of urban development and architecture and his influential contribution to the cultural dimension of building today.

 

            Ettore Scola

For the use of colour in his films Una giornata particolare, Passione d’amore and La nuit de Varennes and the way it is developed, coupled with the complex nature of the films.

  

1981    Jaap Drupsteen

Because in television he has discovered the medium to express himself in very much his own way in image, movement and colour.

  

1979    Rijksdienst voor de IJsselmeerpolders

For the landscape of the Ijsselmeer polders, which is characterised by a functional design reflecting changes in time while also representing the characteristics (in colour as well) of the Dutch landscape.

 

            Armando

For his visual work that at different moments has had a highly pregnant effect in the recent history of art.

  

1971    Richard Paul Lohse

For his art and the composition techniques developed in it which contain great possibilities for contemporary building, where the composition of industrially manufactured standard components requires new techniques.

  

1970    De hippies

For an exuberant use of colour as a playful element in human society, whereby a practical contribution is made to the integration of colour and space.

  

1969    Josef Svoboda

For his stage images and for his project in the Czechoslovakian pavilion at the Montreal World’s Fair in 1967.

  

1968    Theo van Doesburg

For his pioneering work synthesising colour and architecture, both in practice and in his writings.

  

1967    Maurice Agis & Peter Jones

For their concept of spatial structures typified by the relations between planes, lines and colours that determine spatial orientation and inspire people’s movements in it.

 

1966    Peter Struycken

For his intensive research, both theoretical and visual, into a pattern in the relationship between form and colour.

  

            Jan Slothouber/William Graatsma

Because of the impressive way in which they have derived a connection between space and colour from the correspondence between the trihedral corners of a cube and the six elementary colours.

  

1965    Johannes Itten

Because of his fundamental contribution to the integration of space and colour as founder of the Vorkurs at the Bauhaus, and for his contribution to colour theory in Kunst der Farbe.

  

1964    Livinus van de Bundt

For his experimental ‘photo-paintings’ for which he designed a machine enabling him to ‘paint with light’.

  

1963    Le Corbusier

Because of his application of colour as an active element in the spatial and plastic effect of architecture.

  

1962    Dick van Woerkom/Jean Gorin/Charles Biederman/

Joost Baljeu/Structure

For reviving constructivism and the representation of universal laws in the line of De Stijl with the aim of completely renewing our social environment, from house to city.

  

1961    Aldo van Eyck/Joost van Roojen

For Van Eyck’s Burgerweeshuis and for the collaboration between the two in integrating colour in the built environment: the children’s playground on the Zeedijk in Amsterdam.

  

1960    Aldo van Eyck/Constant Nieuwenhuys

For the manifesto Voor een spatiaal colorisme  and its demonstration in the exhibition ‘Een ruimte in kleur’ [A Space in Colour], Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1952.

  

1959    Gerrit Rietveld

For his entire oeuvre insofar it has contributed to realising the synthesis between space and colour.