1966 in architecture

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The year 1966 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• The Gateway Arch in St Louis, Missouri, designed by Eero Saarinen is completed.
• The Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, opens in June as a largest hospital of North America.
• CN Tower (Edmonton), is completed as the first skycraper in the city of Edmonton, and tallest building in Western Canada.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Kenzo Tange.
• RAIA Gold Medal - William Laurie.
• Royal Gold Medal - Ove Arup.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Events

• Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi is published, his first attack on modernist architecture.

Births

• David Adjaye

Deaths

none