1963 in architecture

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The year1963 in architectureinvolved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

October 28– Work begins on demolition ofPennsylvania Station (New York City),surface buildings designed byMcKim, Mead and Whitein 1910, a key influence on thehistoric preservationmovement.^[1]
Work begins on theOstankino Tower,designed byNikolai Nikitin.
Work begins on theUniversity of East AngliainNorwich,England,designed byDenys Lasdun.
Team 4architectural practice established byRichard Rogers,Norman Fosterand their respective wives.
Theavant-gardearchitectural collectiveArchigramstages theLiving Citiesexhibition at theInstitute of Contemporary Artsin London.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

Arrábida Bridge,Douroriver, Portugal

Berliner Philharmonie,Germany

February –Springs Mills BuildingonManhattan,New York,United States, designed byHarrison & Abramovitz.
March 7–MetLife Buildingon Manhattan, New York, United States, designed by Richard Roth.
June 22–Arrábida Bridge,Douroriver, Portugal, designed byEdgar Cardoso.
October 15–Berliner Philharmonieconcert hall, designed byHans Scharoun.
November –Phoenix Life Insurance Company BuildinginHartford, Connecticut,designed byMax Abramovitz.

Buildings completed

Kobe Port TowerinKobe,Japan

St John the Baptist's Church, Ermine, Lincoln,Lincoln, England,designed bySam Scorer.
Großer Sendesaal(concert hall) ofHanover Broadcast Stationin West Germany, designed byDieter Oesterlen.
Bankside Power StationinLondon,designed byGiles Gilbert Scott.(Adaptive reuseas theTate Modernart museum in 2000.)
Vickers ToweronMillbankin London, designed by Ronald Ward and Partners.
Alexander Fleming House,Blocks A-C, atElephant and Castlein London, designed byErnő Goldfinger.
Darwin Building,Royal College of Art,South Kensington, London, designed byH. T.andElizabeth Cadbury-Brown,SirHugh Cassonand Robert Goodden.
University of Leicester Engineering Building,England,designed byJames StirlingandJames Gowan.^[2]
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 ofRichard Costain (Construction) Ltd.^[3]
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript LibraryatYale University,designed byGordon BunshaftofSkidmore, Owings & Merrill.^[4]
Core buildings ofFitzwilliam College, Cambridge,designed byDenys Lasdun.
Salk Institute,byLouis I. Kahn,atLa Jolla, California.
Exxon BuildinginHouston, Texas.
Hotel Ivoire,Abidjan,Ivory Coast, designed byMoshe Mayer.
Jamaraat Bridge,Mina, Saudi Arabia.
Kobe Port TowerinKobe,Japan.
Bunshaft Residence(sometimes called the Travertine House) inEast Hampton, New York:designed by architectGordon Bunshaftfor himself and his wife, and his only residential project.
Sadovnichesky Bridge,Vodootvodny Canal,Moscow.

Awards

American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal–Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
AIA Gold Medal–Alvar Aalto
RAIA Gold Medal–Arthur Stephenson
RIBA 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 ZaeraPolo, Spanish architect and teacher
June 24–Benedetta Tagliabue,Italian architect based in Barcelona

Deaths

February 11–Elmar Lohk,Estonian architect (born1901)
February 21–Philip Hepworth,English architect (born1890)
March 17–Adalberto Libera,Italian modernist architect (born1903)
March 22–Herbert James Rowse,English architect working in Liverpool (born1887)
April 5–J. J. P. Oud,Dutch architect (born1890)
April 23–Adrian Gilbert Scott,English church architect, grandson of SirGeorge Gilbert Scott(born1901)

References

^Tolchin, Martin (1963-10-29)."Demolition Starts At Penn Station; Architects Picket; Penn Station Demolition Begun; 6 Architects Call Act a 'Shame'".The New York Times.Archivedfrom the original on 2018-05-23.Retrieved2018-05-22.
^Harwood, Elain (2003).England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings(rev. ed.). London: Batsford.ISBN 0-7134-8818-2.
^Cragg, Roger (2010).Civil Engineering Heritage – West Midlands.Andover: Phillimore. p. 130.ISBN 978-1-86077-572-7.
^"About the Building".Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.Yale University.Retrieved21 September2018.

[1] Tolchin, Martin (1963-10-29)."Demolition Starts At Penn Station; Architects Picket; Penn Station Demolition Begun; 6 Architects Call Act a 'Shame'".The New York Times.Archivedfrom the original on 2018-05-23.Retrieved2018-05-22.

[2] Harwood, Elain (2003).England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings(rev. ed.). London: Batsford.ISBN 0-7134-8818-2.

[3] Cragg, Roger (2010).Civil Engineering Heritage – West Midlands.Andover: Phillimore. p. 130.ISBN 978-1-86077-572-7.

[4] "About the Building".Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.Yale University.Retrieved21 September2018.

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