1963 in architecture

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The year 1963 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings opened

• March 7 - MetLife Building in Manhattan, New York, United States.
• June 22 - Arrábida Bridge, Douro river, Portugal, designed by Edgar Cardoso.
• October 15 - Berliner Philharmonie concert hall, designed by Hans Scharoun.
• November - Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Building in Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Max Abramovitz.

Buildings completed

• St.John the Baptist Church, Ermine, Lincoln, England, designed by Sam Scorer.
• Bankside Power Station in London, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. (Adaptive reuse as the Tate Modern art museum in 2000.)
• Vickers Tower on Millbank in London, designed by Ronald Ward and Partners.
• Darwin Building, Royal College of Art, South Kensington, London, designed by H. T. and Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown, Sir Hugh Casson and Robert Goodden.
• Engineering Building at the University of Leicester, England, designed by James Stirling and James Gowan.^[1]
• Alpha House, Coventry, England, built, a 17-storey residential tower block, the world's first multi-storey building erected by the "jack block" system devised by Felix Adler of Richard Costain (Construction) Ltd.^[2]

Leicester University's Engineering Building

• Core buildings of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, designed by Denys Lasdun.
• Salk Institute, by Louis I. Kahn, at La Jolla, California.
• Exxon Building in Houston, Texas.
• Hotel Ivoire, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, designed by Moshe Mayer.
• Jamaraat Bridge, Mina, Saudi Arabia.
• Kobe Port Tower in Kobe, Japan.
• Bunshaft Residence (sometimes called the Travertine House) in East Hampton, New York: designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft for himself and his wife, and his only residential project.
• Sadovnichesky Bridge, Vodootvodny Canal, Moscow.

Events

• Work begins on the Ostankino Tower, designed by Nikolai Nikitin.
• Pennsylvania Station (New York City) by McKim, Mead and White is demolished.
• Work begins on the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, designed by Denys Lasdun.
• Team 4 architectural practice established by Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and their respective wives.
• The avant-garde architectural collective Archigram stages the Living Cities exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

Awards

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• AIA Gold Medal - Alvar Aalto.
• RAIA Gold Medal - Arthur Stephenson.
• Royal Gold Medal - William Holford.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Jean-Louis Girodet.

Publications

• John Summerson - The Classical Language of Architecture (BBC).

Births

• October 16 - Filipe Oliveira Dias, Portuguese architect and writer
• October 17 - Alejandro Zaera Polo, Spanish architect and teacher
• June 24 - Benedetta Tagliabue, Italian architect based in Barcelona

Deaths

• February 11 - Elmar Lohk, Estonian architect (born 1901)
• February 21 - Philip Hepworth, English architect (born 1890)
• March 22 - Herbert James Rowse, English architect working in Liverpool (born 1887)
• April 5 - J. J. P. Oud, Dutch architect (born 1890)
• April 23 - Adrian Gilbert Scott, English church architect, grandson of Sir George Gilbert Scott (born 1901)

References

1. Harwood, Elain (2003). England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings (rev. ed.). London: Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8818-2.
2. Cragg, Roger (2010). Civil Engineering Heritage - West Midlands. Andover: Phillimore. p. 130. ISBN 978-1-86077-572-7.