1957 in architecture

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Zeilenbau housing at Interbau, by Walter Gropius

The year 1957 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• Byrd Station commissioned in West Antarctica.
• The Interbau project in West Berlin is completed, with buildings designed by forty-eight architects.
• Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts completed in Yerevan, Armenia.
• Munkegaard School near Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Arne Jacobsen.
• Richards Medical Research Laboratories by architect Louis Kahn completed on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania.
• Torre de Madrid completed as one of the tallest buildings in Spain.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Ralph Walker, Louis Skidmore
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal - Alvar Aalto

Births

• 28 July - Ai Weiwei
• Shigeru Ban in Tokyo

Deaths

• January 7 - Joze Plecnik (born 1872)
• February 2 - Julia Morgan (born 1872)
• October 3 - Bernard Maybeck (born 1862)
• October 15 - Henry Van de Velde (born 1863)

In popular media

Henry Fonda's character "Juror 8" (Davis) in 12 Angry Men was an architect