1963 in architecture

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The year 1963 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• March 7 - MetLife Building in Manhattan, New York, United States is opened.
• Bankside Power Station in London, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott is completed. (Adaptive reuse as the Tate Modern art museum in 2000.)
• Millbank Tower in London is completed.
• Engineering Building at the University of Leicester, England, designed by James Stirling and James Gowan, is completed.
• 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 of Richard Costain (Construction) Ltd.

Leicester University's Engineering Building

• Salk Institute, by Louis I. Kahn, at La Jolla, California.
• Exxon Building in Houston, Texas is completed.
• Kobe Port Tower in Kobe, Japan is completed.
• Bunshaft Residence (sometimes called the Travertine House) in East Hampton, New York is completed: designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft for himself and his wife, and his only residential project.

Events

• Work begins on the Ostankino Tower, designed by Nikolai Nikitin.
• Pennsylvania Station (New York City) by McKim, Mead and White is demolished.
• Work begins on the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, designed by Denys Lasdun.
• Team 4 architectural practice established by Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and their respective wives.

Awards

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• AIA Gold Medal - Alvar Aalto.
• RAIA Gold Medal - Arthur Stephenson.
• Royal Gold Medal - William Holford.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Publications

• John Summerson - The Classical Language of Architecture (BBC).

Births

• October 16 Filipe Oliveira Dias
• Benedetta Tagliabue in Milan
• Alejandro Zaera Polo in Madrid

Deaths

• 11 February Elmar Lohk (born 1901)
• 23 April Adrian Gilbert Scott
• Herbert James Rowse