The Royal Institute of British Architects has been awarding the President's Medals since the 1850s and the awards were established in their current format in 1984.

The aim of these prestigious awards is to promote excellence in the study of architecture, to reward talent and to encourage architectural debate worldwide.

Widely regarded as the best architectural education awards in the world, students aspire each year to be selected by their school to enter for the medals and for the opportunity for their work to be recognised and publicly exhibited.

The President's Medals website features all the nominations since 1998. The site includes a database of projects and statements of intent from the students, schools define their educational policy and aims, tutors justify their nominations and the judging panels explain their decision making process.

All nominations can be searched by name, school, country and year, enabling the user to browse material from any category.