1978 in architecture

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The year 1978 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings and structures

Gehry House by Frank Gehry in Santa Monica, California.
Sunshine 60 in Tokyo, Japan is completed.
Reunion Tower in Dallas, Texas is completed.
United Nations City in Vienna, Austria is completed.
Comodoro Rivadavia Cathedral in Argentina is dedicated.
London Borough of Camden low-rise high-density social housing schemes completed on Alexandra Road Estate (designed by Neave Brown in 1968) and Branch Hill (by Gordon Benson and Alan Forsyth).^[1]
Commercial Street Housing in Perth, Scotland, designed by James Parr & Partners.^[2]
Angoori Bagh Housing in Pakistan, designed by Yasmeen Lari, completed.
Sanctuary of Meritxell, Andorra, designed by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, completed.
Sheep Field Barn (sculpture gallery for Henry Moore Foundation), Perry Green, Hertfordshire, England, designed by Hawkins\Brown.

Herzog & de Meuron Architekten set up in Basel.
Manfredi Nicoletti publishes L'ecosistema urbano (The Urban ecosystem) - a term that he himself has coined.

^ London Suburbs. London: Merrell Holberton. 1999. ISBN 978-1-85894-077-9.
^ Murray, Peter; Trombley, Stephen (1990). Modern Britain. Phaidon Architecture Guide (2nd ed.). London: Phaidon. pp. 168–9. ISBN 0-7148-3133-6.|