1953 in architecture

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The year 1953 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede

• Main building of Moscow State University, designed by Lev Rudnev, completed.
• 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.
• Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede, England, designed by Edward Maufe, dedicated October 17.
• 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.^[2]

Awards

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal - Frank Lloyd Wright.
• AIA Gold Medal - William Adams Delano.
• Royal Gold Medal - Le Corbusier.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Olivier-Clément Cacoub.

Publications

• John Summerson - Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830.

Births

• November 7 - Peter Janesch, Hungarian architect
• December 18 - David Chipperfield, English architect
• Sheila O'Donnell, Irish architect

Deaths

• May 31 - Vladimir Tatlin (born 1885)
• August 17 - Banister Fletcher (born 1866)
• September 15 - Erich Mendelsohn (born 1887)

References

1. "Building of the Month". The Twentieth Century Society. February 2005. Retrieved 2006-07-08.
2. Provoost, Michelle; Vanstiphout, Wouter (2007-01-18). "Lijnbaan R.I.P.". ArchiNed. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-03.