1964 In Architecture

The year 1964 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

* June 11 – Reconstruction of the Wren church of St Mary-le-Bow in the City of London by Laurence King is completed.
* ''Architecture Without Architects'' by Bernard Rudofsky is published.
* Dawson's Heights, social housing apartment blocks in Dulwich, south London, is designed by Kate Macintosh.
* Didcot Power Station layout in England is designed by Frederick Gibberd.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

*April – Donauturm (Danube Tower) in Vienna, Austria, designed by Hannes Lintl, opened.
* May 30 – Zu den heiligen Engeln church in Hanover, Germany, designed by Bieling Architekten, consecrated.
*July 23 – Church of the Good Shepherd, Nottingham, England (Roman Catholic), designed by Gerard Goalen, 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, England, 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.
*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.



* December 28 – Kyoto Tower in Kyoto, Japan opens.
*''date unknown''
**Tour de la Bourse in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is completed and becomes the tallest building in the British Commonwealth (1964–1967).
**CBS Building in New York City, the only skyscraper designed by Eero Saarinen (d. 1961).
**Prudential Tower in Boston, United States, designed by Charles Luckman and Associates.
**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 (badly damaged 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.
**The Snowdon Aviary, London Zoo, designed by Lord Snowdon, Cedric Price and Frank Newby, is completed.
** St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo, Japan (Roman Catholic), designed by Kenzō Tange, is completed.
** St Mary's Church, Leyland, Lancashire, England (Roman Catholic), designed by J. Faczynski of Weightman and Bullen.
**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).
**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).
**New House, Shipton-under-Wychwood, England, designed by Roy Stout and Patrick Litchfield.

Awards

*AIA Gold Medal – Pier Luigi Nervi
*Architecture Firm Award – The Architects Collaborative
* RAIA Gold Medal – Cobden Parkes
*RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Maxwell Fry
*Prix de Rome, architecture – Bernard Schoebel
*Rome Prize Fellowship at American Academy in Rome – Charles O. Perry

Births

*September 15 – Alan Jones, Northern Ireland-born architect
*''date unknown''
**Heike Hanada, German artist, architect and teacher of architecture
**Greg Lynn, American architect and academic

Deaths

* February 3 – Albert Richardson, English architect, writer, and Professor of Architecture (born 1880)
*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

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20th-century architecture