1964 in architecture
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The year 1964 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- Architecture Without Architects by Bernard Rudofsky is published.
- Dawson's Heights, social housing apartment blocks in Dulwich, south London, is designed by Kate Macintosh.[1]
Buildings opened
- April – Donauturm (Danube Tower) in Vienna, Austria, designed by Hannes Lintl, opened.
- October – Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Kenzō Tange for the 1964 Summer Olympics, opened.
- October 16 – St Catherine's College, Oxford, designed by Arne Jacobsen, opened.
- October 17 – Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, Australia, designed by Walter Burley Griffin (died 1937), opened.
- November 21
- Verrazano Narrows Bridge across New York Harbor, the longest suspension bridge in the world by the length of central span (1964-1981), designed by Othmar Ammann, opened.
- Gala Fairydean F.C. stand, Netherdale stadium, Galashiels, Scotland, designed by Peter Womersley, opened.[2]
- December 28 – Kyoto Tower in Kyoto, Japan, designed by Makoto Tanahashi, opened.
Buildings completed
- July 15 – The Post Office Tower in London (now known as the BT Tower), designed by Eric Bedford and G. R. Yeats, is topped out.
- date unknown
- Tour de la Bourse in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is completed and becomes the tallest building in the British Commonwealth (1964–1967).
- Prudential Tower in Boston, United States.
- The Erieview Tower in Downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is completed as part of the Erieview urban renewal plan.
- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art new building, designed by William Pereira.
- Founders Tower (Oklahoma City).
- Casino Tower in Niagara Falls.
- Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters in Philadelphia, United States, designed by Pietro Belluschi and George M. Ewing Co.
- Fernmeldeturm Berlin in Berlin, Germany, is completed after 3 years.
- The Fernmeldeturm Ulm-Ermingen in Ulm-Ermingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Pääskyvuoren linkkitorni in Turku, Finland.
- The Ušće Tower in Belgrade, Serbia (destroyed in 1999 by NATO airstrikes, but reconstructed in 2004).
- The Royal College of Physicians in London, designed by Denys Lasdun.
- Swiss Cottage Central Library for the London Borough of Camden, designed by Sir Basil Spence.
- The Economist Group headquarters in the City of London, designed by Peter and Alison Smithson.[3]
- The Snowdon Aviary, London Zoo, designed by Lord Snowdon, Cedric Price and Frank Newby, is completed.[3][4]
- St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo, Japan (Roman Catholic), designed by Kenzō Tange, is completed.
- Synagogue for Belfast Hebrew Congregation (Northern Ireland) designed by Eugene Rosenberg of Yorke Rosenberg Mardall.
- Extension to the Ulster Museum, Belfast, designed in Brutalist style by Francis Pym, completed.
- The Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology in Washington, D.C., designed by McKim, Mead & White, opens to the public (January 23).[5]
- Fondation Maeght museum of modern art at Saint-Paul-de-Vence in the Alpes-Maritimes of France, designed by Spanish Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert, is opened (July 28).[6]
- New House, Shipton-under-Wychwood, England, designed by Roy Stout and Patrick Litchfield.[7]
Awards
- AIA Gold Medal – Pier Luigi Nervi.
- Architecture Firm Award – The Architects Collaborative.
- RAIA Gold Medal – Cobden Parkes.
- Royal Gold Medal – Maxwell Fry.
- Prix de Rome, architecture – Bernard Schoebel.
- Rome Prize Fellowship at American Academy in Rome – Charles O. Perry.
Births
- date unknown
- Heike Hanada, German artist and teacher of architecture
- Greg Lynn, American architect and academic
Deaths
- February 3 – Albert Richardson, English architect, writer, and Professor of Architecture (born 1880)[8]
- March 28 – Vlastislav Hofman, Czech artist and architect (born 1884)
- June 26 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch furniture designer and architect (born 1888)
- July 17 – Maurice Glaize, French architect and archeologist (born 1886)
- July 23 – Arkady Mordvinov, Soviet Stalinist architect (born 1896)
- November 5 – Percy Erskine Nobbs, Montreal Arts & Crafts architect (born 1875)
References
- ^ Billings, Henrietta (May 2012). "Dawson's Heights: the 'Italian' hill town in Dulwich". The Twentieth Century Society. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
- ^ McIver, Graeme. "Our Famous Grade A-Listed Stand". Galashiels: Gala Fairydean Rovers F.C. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ a b Harwood, Elain (2003). England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings (rev. ed.). London: Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8818-2.
- ^ "ZSL Architecture". ZSL. Archived from the original on 28 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-06.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Mission & History". National Museum of American History. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
- ^ "The Maeght Foundation, a unique site dedicated to art". Fondation Maeght. 2010. Retrieved 2012-10-16.
- ^ Brooks, Alan (2017). Oxfordshire: North and West. Pevsner Architectural Guides. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. p. 463. ISBN 978-0-300-20930-3.
- ^ "Sir Albert Richardson". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 19 January 2018.