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The year 1943 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

The Athens Charter is published by the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne group of architects.
Nikolaus Pevsner's book An Outline of European Architecture is published in Britain.
The County of London Plan is prepared by J. H. Forshaw and Patrick Abercrombie.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

January 15 – The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., United States, designed by George Bergstrom
April 13 – The Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C., designed by John Russell Pope
Peace River Suspension Bridge, Canada (collapsed 1957)^[1]
Sandö Bridge, Sweden
Surp Hagop Church, Aleppo, Syria
Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, designed by Oscar Niemeyer
Umaid Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur, India, designed by Henry Vaughan Lanchester (begun 1929)
Block D, Bletchley Park, England.

Buildings completed

Casa Malaparte on Capri, house for Curzio Malaparte designed by him with Adalberto Libera and builder Adolfo Amitrano (begun 1937)

Awards

RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Charles Herbert Reilly.
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: André Chatelin and Jean Dubuisson.

Births

January 3 – Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp, German-born architect (died 2004)
March 14 – Peter Vetsch, Swiss architect
April 1 – Mario Botta, Swiss architect
April 24 – Franco Stella, Italian architect
April 26 – Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect^[2]
August 7 – Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil, Egyptian architect working in Islamic and New Classical styles

Deaths

June 27 – Knud Arne Petersen, Danish architect and director of Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen (born 1862)
July 19 – Giuseppe Terragni, Italian Rationalist architect (born 1904; thrombosis)
November 29 – John Virginius Bennes, Oregon architect (born 1867)

References

^ "Collapsed Peace River Bridge". History of the North Peace. Archived from the original on 2005-04-09. Retrieved 2006-02-05.
^ Pogrebin, Robin (2009-04-12). "Pritzker Prize Goes to Peter Zumthor". The New York Times.

[1] "Collapsed Peace River Bridge". History of the North Peace. Archived from the original on 2005-04-09. Retrieved 2006-02-05.

[2] Pogrebin, Robin (2009-04-12). "Pritzker Prize Goes to Peter Zumthor". The New York Times.

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