1977 in architecture

The year 1977 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings

January 31 - The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, designed by Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini, is opened.^[1]
March - Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, designed by John C. Portman Jr., is inaugurated.
April 19 - Yale Center for British Art gallery, designed by Louis Kahn (died 1974), opens to the public in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, designed by Norman Foster.
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran, designed by Kamran Diba, is inaugurated.
Extension to Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava, designed by Vladimír Dedeček, is completed.
30 Cannon Street in the City of London, England, designed by engineers Whinney, Son & Austen Hall with Ove Arup & Partners, is completed for Crédit Lyonnais.
The Citigroup Center at 601 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, is completed; its structural engineer William LeMessurier subsequently discovers it is vulnerable to extreme wind conditions and clandestine retrospective strengthening is carried out.
The Fernmeldeturm Nürnberg in Nürnberg, Germany is completed.
The MLC Centre in Sydney, Australia is completed and opened.
The Torre Espacial in Buenos Aires, Argentina is completed.
The Silberturm in Frankfurt am Main, Germany is completed.
The Shell Centre (Calgary) in Calgary, Alberta
The Harbour Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is completed.
The Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan is completed.
Penton Street flats in Islington, London, designed by John Melvin.^[2]^[3]
The rose window of Lancing College Chapel in England, designed by Stephen Dykes Bower, is completed.

Awards

AIA Gold Medal - Richard Neutra (posthumous)^[4]
Architecture Firm Award - Sert Jackson and Associates
Grand prix national de l'architecture - Paul Andreu; Roland Simounet
RAIA Gold Medal - Ronald Gilling
RIBA Royal Gold Medal - Denys Lasdun
Twenty-five Year Award - Christ Lutheran Church

Publications

A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein.^[5]
The Language of Postmodern Architecture by Charles Jencks.

Births

December 21 - Michel Abboud, Lebanese-born architect

Deaths

March 5 - Herman Munthe-Kaas, Norwegian functionalist architect (born 1890)
August 25 - Károly Kós, Hungarian architect, writer, illustrator, ethnologist and politician (born 1883)

References

^ Fondazione Renzo Piano. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
^ "Penton Street and Chapel Market area". Survey of London. Vol. 46. 2008. Retrieved 2015-01-14.
^ Melvin, John (2011). The Stones of Oxford: Conjectures on a Cockleshell. Winterbourne: Papadakis. ISBN 9781906506131.
^ "Gold Medal". www.aia.org. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
^ Mehaffy, Michael (September 2004). "Towards a New Science of Architecture, and a New Architecture of Science: A Review of Alexander's New Magnum Opus, The Nature of Order". Katarxis. London. Retrieved 2015-01-14.

[1] Fondazione Renzo Piano. Retrieved 2014-06-09.

[2] "Penton Street and Chapel Market area". Survey of London. Vol. 46. 2008. Retrieved 2015-01-14.

[3] Melvin, John (2011). The Stones of Oxford: Conjectures on a Cockleshell. Winterbourne: Papadakis. ISBN 9781906506131.

[4] "Gold Medal". www.aia.org. Retrieved 28 December 2016.

[5] Mehaffy, Michael (September 2004). "Towards a New Science of Architecture, and a New Architecture of Science: A Review of Alexander's New Magnum Opus, The Nature of Order". Katarxis. London. Retrieved 2015-01-14.

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