1972 in architecture

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The year 1972 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

The World Trade Center towers.

• The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the tallest in the world at this time, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, in Lower Manhattan, New York.
• Brunswick Centre in London, designed by Patrick Hodgkinson is completed.
• Robin Hood Gardens council housing complex in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, designed by Alison and Peter Smithson is completed.
• Trellick Tower in North Kensington, London, by Ernő Goldfinger is completed.
• Munich Olympic Arena, designed by Gunter Behnisch for the 1972 Summer Olympics is completed.
• Brion-Vega Cemetery, San Vito d'Alvitole, Italy by Carlo Scarpa is completed.
• Centraal Beheer, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands by Herman Hertzberger is completed.
• Phillips Exeter Academy Library, Exeter, New Hampshire by Louis Kahn is completed.
• Kimball Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas by Louis Kahn is completed.
• Commerce Court West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is completed.
• Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco, California, United States is completed.
• Fernmeldeturm Kiel in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany is completed.
• One Penn Plaza in New York City, New York, United States is completed.
• McGraw-Hill Building in Manhattan, New York, United States is completed and opened.
• The Fernmeldeturm Frauenkopf (Stuttgarter Fernmeldeturm) in Stuttgart, Germany is completed.
• The Wells Fargo Center in Portland, Oregon, United States is opened.
• The Camlica TV Tower in Istanbul, Turkey is completed.
• The Dorint Hotel Tower in Augsburg, Germany is completed and opened.
• The Catedral de Maringá in Maringá, Paraná, Brazil is completed and is one of the tallest churches/ cathedrals in the world.

Events

• Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour and Denise Scott Brown is published.
• India passes the Architects Act governing the professional practice of architecture in India.
• Yale University designates the Yale School of Architecture as a separate professional school.
• Demolition begins (March 16) of the Pruitt–Igoe public housing project designed by Minoru Yamasaki in St. Louis, Missouri, representing the end of modern architecture according to critic Charles Jencks.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Pietro Belluschi
• Architecture Firm Award - Caudill Rowlett Scott
• RAIA Gold Medal - Ted Farmer
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal - Louis Kahn
• AIA Twenty-five Year Award - Baldwin Hills Village

Publications

• John Betjeman - A Pictorial History of English Architecture.

Deaths

• January 9 - Liang Sicheng (b. 1901)
• February 24 - Sven Markelius (b. 1889)
• June 19 - Elisabeth Scott (b. 1898)
• November 25 - Hans Scharoun (b. 1893)
• December 14 - Yoshikazu Uchida (b. 1885)