1956 in architecture

none 1956 architecture The year 1956 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1956 Buildings opened thumb|Theater Münster, Germany February – Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. February 4 – Theater Münster in Germany, designed by Werner Ruhnau, Harald Deilmann, Max von Hausen and Ortwin Rave. April 17 – Council House, Bristol, England, UK, designed by Vincent Harris (begun 1938).http://archives.bristol.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=BROFA%2f0069 The Visit to Bristol of Queen Elizabeth II and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh on April 17 1956 June 20, 2018 April 30 – Torre Latinoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico, designed by Augusto H. Alvarez. July 31 – Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, USSR. Buildings completed thumb|right|S. R. Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA thumb|Mausoleum of Genghis Khan in Inner Mongolia, China Capitol Records Building in Hollywood, California, the world's first round office building, designed by architect Welton Becket. S. R. Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, United States, designed by the current head of IIT's architecture department Mies van der Rohe. General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, United States, designed by Eero Saarinen. Latvian Academy of Sciences, Riga, Latvia, designed by Lev Rudnev.June 2018 Maisons Jaoul in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, designed by Le Corbusier in 1937.Kenneth Frampton Roberto Schezen Le Corbusier: architect of the twentieth century New York H.N. Abrams 2002 14.153 Mausoleum of Genghis Khan completed as a cenotaph in Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China.Bayar Nasan https://books.google.com/books?id=I7nWJKLr-8wC The Mongolia–Tibet Interface: Opening New Research Terrains in Inner Asia Uradyn Erden Bulag Hildegard G.M. Diemberger 0 Henk Blezer Alex McKay Charles Ramble Brill Leiden Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, Vol. 10/9, Proceedings of the 10th Seminar of the IATS, Oxford, 2003 2007 On Chinggis Khan and Being Like a Buddha: A Perspective on Cultural Conflation in Contemporary Inner Mongolia https://books.google.com/books?id=I7nWJKLr-8wC&pg=PA197 211 9789004155213 Vidhana Soudha, completed in Bangalore, India, designed by Kengal Hanumanthaiah.Jon T. Lang A concise history of modern architecture in India 2002 Orient Blackswan 978-81-7824-017-6 40–41 Bank of England Printing Works at Loughton, designed by Howard Robertson. National Pensions Institute, Helsinki, Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto. Rødovre Town Hall, Denmark, designed by Arne Jacobsen. St Mark's Church (Markuskyrkan), Björkhagen, Stockholm, Sweden, designed by Sigurd Lewerentz. Faculty of Letters building at the University of Reading, England, UK, designed by Howard Robertson. Rothschild estate cottages, Poplar Meadow, Rushbrooke, Suffolk, England, UK, designed by John Weeks.The Twentieth Century Society The Twentieth Century Society 100 Houses 100 Years London Batsford 2017 978-1-84994-437-3 H. J. Lovink Pumping Station on the Flevopolder in the Netherlands, designed by Dirk Roosenburg.Gemaal Lovink Lovink Pumping Station Dutch Flevoland Heritage Fleurbaaij Kunst & Cultuur https://www.flevolanderfgoed.nl/home/erfgoed/oostelijk-flevoland-2/gemalen-2/gemaal-lovink.html 2024-06-09 2023-09-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20230927143653/https://www.flevolanderfgoed.nl/home/erfgoed/oostelijk-flevoland-2/gemalen-2/gemaal-lovink.html Awards AIA Gold Medal – Clarence S. Stein. Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Michel Folliasson. RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Walter Gropius. Births January 15 – Vitaly Kaloyev, Russian architect and politician October 29 – Kazuyo Sejima, Japanese architect November 25 – Stefano Boeri, Italian architect and urban planner November – Teresa Borsuk, British architect thumb|upright|Josef Hoffmann Deaths February 25 – Philip Tilden, English domestic architect (born 1887) May 7 – Josef Hoffmann, Austrian architect and designer (born 1870) July 21 – Lionel Bailey Budden, English architect and academic (born 1877) September 8 – Oskar Kaufmann, Hungarian-Jewish architect known for his works in Berlin (born 1873) November 20 – Joseph Emberton, English modernist architect (born 1889) December 21 – Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Catalan Spanish Modernista architect known for his works in Barcelona (born 1867) References