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1953 in architecture
Summary
The year
1953 in architecture
involved some significant events.
List of years in architecture
(
table
)
…
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
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Buildings and structures
Art
Archaeology
Architecture
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Science
+...
Events
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Gordon Ryder and
Peter Yates
form an architectural practice based in
Newcastle upon Tyne
in the north of England.
Buildings and structures completed
edit
Main building of Moscow State University
Air Forces Memorial
,
Runnymede
Main building of Moscow State University
,
the tallest building in Europe
(1953–1990) and the
tallest educational building in the world
(1953–present), designed by
Lev Rudnev
.
St Crispin's School
,
Wokingham
,
Berkshire
,
England
, designed by the U.K.
Ministry of Education
.
YMCA Indian Student Hostel,
Fitzrovia
, London, designed by
Ralph Tubbs
.
[1]
Housing at
Chandigarh
,
Punjab (India)
, designed by
Le Corbusier
in collaboration with
Pierre Jeanneret
,
Jane Drew
,
Maxwell Fry
,
B. V. Doshi
and others.
Mardyke Road (residential crescent),
Harlow New Town
, England, designed by
Frederick Gibberd
.
[2]
Air Forces Memorial
,
Runnymede
, England, designed by
Edward Maufe
, dedicated October 17.
English Martyrs' Church, Wallasey
, designed by
F. X. Velarde
, dedicated August 31.
New building for
Yale University Art Gallery
,
New Haven, Connecticut
, the first major commission for
Louis Kahn
, opened November.
Lijnbaan
pedestrianised shopping street in
Rotterdam
, designed by
Jo van den Broek
and
Jacob B. Bakema
.
[3]
Awards
edit
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal
–
Frank Lloyd Wright
.
AIA Gold Medal
–
William Adams Delano
.
RIBA
Royal Gold Medal
–
Le Corbusier
.
Grand Prix de Rome
, architecture – Olivier-Clément Cacoub.
Publications
edit
Ivan Chtcheglov
(as Gilles Ivain) –
Formulaire pour un urbanisme nouveau
.
John Summerson
–
Architecture in Britain, 1530–1830
.
Births
edit
March 26
-
Phil Freelon
, American architect (Died. 2019)
November 7 –
Peter Janesch
, Hungarian architect
December 18 –
David Chipperfield
, English architect
Sheila O'Donnell
, Irish architect
Richard Weston
, English architect
Vladimir Tatlin
Deaths
edit
May 31 –
Vladimir Tatlin
, Soviet Russian architect (born
1885
)
August 17 –
Sir Banister Fletcher
, English architectural historian (born
1866
)
September 15 –
Erich Mendelsohn
, German-born architect (born
1887
)
December 13 –
Ad van der Steur
, Dutch architect (born
1893
)
References
edit
^
"Building of the Month".
The Twentieth Century Society
. February 2005. Archived from the original on 2006-09-25
. Retrieved
2006-07-08
.
^
The Twentieth Century Society (2017). "1953".
100 Houses 100 Years
. London: Batsford.
ISBN
978-1-84994-437-3
.
^
Provoost, Michelle; Vanstiphout, Wouter (2007-01-18). "Lijnbaan R.I.P."
ArchiNed
. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24
. Retrieved
2011-08-03
.