1956 in architecture

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The year 1956 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

February – Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
February 4 – Theater Münster in Germany, designed by Werner Ruhnau, Harald Deilmann, Max von Hausen and Ortwin Rave.
April 17 – Council House, Bristol, England, UK, designed by Vincent Harris (begun 1938).^[1]
April 30 – Torre Latinoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico, designed by Augusto H. Alvarez.
July 31 – Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, USSR.

Buildings completed

Mausoleum of Genghis Khan in Inner Mongolia, China GhinggisKhanMausoleum.jpg — Mausoleum of Genghis Khan in Inner Mongolia, China

Capitol Records Building in Hollywood, California, the world's first round office building, designed by architect Welton Becket.
S. R. Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, United States, designed by the current head of IIT's architecture department Mies van der Rohe.
General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, United States, designed by Eero Saarinen.
Latvian Academy of Sciences, Riga, Latvia, designed by Lev Rudnev.^{[ citation needed ]}
Maisons Jaoul in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, designed by Le Corbusier in 1937.^[2]
Mausoleum of Genghis Khan completed as a cenotaph in Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China.^[3]
Vidhana Soudha, completed in Bangalore, India, designed by Kengal Hanumanthaiah.^[4]
Bank of England Printing Works at Loughton, designed by Howard Robertson.
National Pensions Institute, Helsinki, Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto.
Rødovre Town Hall, Denmark, designed by Arne Jacobsen.
St Mark's Church (Markuskyrkan), Björkhagen, Stockholm, Sweden, designed by Sigurd Lewerentz.
Faculty of Letters building at the University of Reading, England, UK, designed by Howard Robertson.
Rothschild estate cottages, Poplar Meadow, Rushbrooke, Suffolk, England, UK, designed by John Weeks.^[5]

Awards

AIA Gold Medal – Clarence S. Stein.
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Michel Folliasson.
RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Walter Gropius.

Births

January 15 – Vitaly Kaloyev, Russian architect and politician
October 29 – Kazuyo Sejima, Japanese architect
November – Teresa Borsuk, British architect

Josef Hoffmann Josef-Hoffmann.jpg — Josef Hoffmann

Deaths

February 25 – Philip Tilden, English domestic architect (born 1887)
May 7 – Josef Hoffmann, Austrian architect and designer (born 1870)
July 21 – Lionel Bailey Budden, English architect and academic (born 1877)
September 8 – Oskar Kaufmann, Hungarian-Jewish architect known for his works in Berlin (born 1873)
November 20 – Joseph Emberton, English modernist architect (born 1889)
December 21 – Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Catalan Spanish Modernista architect known for his works in Barcelona (born 1867)

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References

↑ "The Visit to Bristol of Queen Elizabeth II and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh on April 17 1956" . Retrieved June 20, 2018.
↑ Frampton, Kenneth; Schezen, Roberto (2002). Le Corbusier: architect of the twentieth century. New York: H.N. Abrams. p. 14.153.
↑ Bayar, Nasan (2007), "On Chinggis Khan and Being Like a Buddha: A Perspective on Cultural Conflation in Contemporary Inner Mongolia", The Mongolia–Tibet Interface: Opening New Research Terrains in Inner Asia, Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, Vol. 10/9, Proceedings of the 10th Seminar of the IATS, Oxford, 2003, Leiden: Brill, p. 211, ISBN 9789004155213
↑ Lang, Jon T. (2002). A concise history of modern architecture in India. Orient Blackswan. pp. 40–41. ISBN 978-81-7824-017-6.
↑ The Twentieth Century Society (2017). 100 Houses 100 Years. London: Batsford. ISBN 978-1-84994-437-3.

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[1] "The Visit to Bristol of Queen Elizabeth II and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh on April 17 1956" . Retrieved June 20, 2018.

[2] Frampton, Kenneth; Schezen, Roberto (2002). Le Corbusier: architect of the twentieth century. New York: H.N. Abrams. p. 14.153.

[3] Bayar, Nasan (2007), "On Chinggis Khan and Being Like a Buddha: A Perspective on Cultural Conflation in Contemporary Inner Mongolia", The Mongolia–Tibet Interface: Opening New Research Terrains in Inner Asia, Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, Vol. 10/9, Proceedings of the 10th Seminar of the IATS, Oxford, 2003, Leiden: Brill, p. 211, ISBN 9789004155213

[4] Lang, Jon T. (2002). A concise history of modern architecture in India. Orient Blackswan. pp. 40–41. ISBN 978-81-7824-017-6.

[5] The Twentieth Century Society (2017). 100 Houses 100 Years. London: Batsford. ISBN 978-1-84994-437-3.

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