1957 in architecture
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The year 1957 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
- Byrd Station commissioned in West Antarctica.
Buildings opened
- July 22 - Fazle Omar Mosque, Hamburg, Germany.
- October 15
- Torre de Madrid, one of the tallest buildings in Spain.
- Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge in China.
Buildings completed
- Friedrich-Engelhorn-Hochhaus in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, at the time the tallest building in Germany.
- The Interbau project in West Berlin, with buildings designed by forty-eight architects.
- Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan, Armenia.
- Munkegaard School near Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Arne Jacobsen.
- Richards Medical Research Laboratories by architect Louis Kahn, on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
- Unité d'Habitation at Marseille, by Le Corbusier.
- Josep Lluís Sert's house for himself at 64 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- Dr. Robert Hohf House near Kenilworth, Illinois, USA by Keck & Keck.
- Norms Restaurant, La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, USA by Armét & Davis.
Awards
Births
- May 18 - Ai Weiwei, Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation, architecture, curating, photography, film, and social, political and cultural criticism.[1][2]
- date unknown - Shigeru Ban, Japanese architect known for use of paper and cardboard
Deaths
- January 7 - Joze Plecnik, Slovene architect (born 1872)
- February 2 - Julia Morgan, first woman to be admitted to the architecture program at l'École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and the first woman architect licensed in California (born 1872)
- October 3 - Bernard Maybeck, American architect of the Arts and Crafts Movement (born 1862)
- October 15 - Henry Van de Velde, Belgian Flemish painter, architect and interior designer (born 1863)
References
- ↑ "Ai Weiwei". Wolseley Media. 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2008.
- ↑ Cooper, Rafi (6 July 2008). "Cultural revolutionary". The Observer (UK). Archived from the original on 9 July 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2008.