1964 in architecture

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The year 1964 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

June 11 – Reconstruction of the Wren church of St Mary-le-Bow in the City of London by Laurence King is completed.^[1]
Architecture Without Architects by Bernard Rudofsky is published.
Dawson's Heights, social housing apartment blocks in Dulwich, south London, is designed by Kate Macintosh.^[2]
Didcot Power Station layout in England is designed by Frederick Gibberd.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan

April – Donauturm (Danube Tower) in Vienna, Austria, designed by Hannes Lintl, opened.
May 30 – Zu den heiligen Engeln church in Hanover, Germany, designed by Bieling Architekten, consecrated.
July 23 – Church of the Good Shepherd, Nottingham, England (Roman Catholic), designed by Gerard Goalen, opened.
October – Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Kenzō Tange for the 1964 Summer Olympics, opened.
October 16 – St Catherine's College, Oxford, England, designed by Arne Jacobsen, opened.
October 17 – Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, Australia, designed by Walter Burley Griffin (died 1937), opened.
November 21
- Verrazano Narrows Bridge across New York Harbor, the longest suspension bridge in the world by the length of central span (1964-1981), designed by Othmar Ammann, opened.
- Gala Fairydean F.C. stand, Netherdale stadium, Galashiels, Scotland, designed by Peter Womersley, opened.^[3]
December 28 – Kyoto Tower in Kyoto, Japan, designed by Makoto Tanahashi, opened.

Buildings completed

July 15 – The Post Office Tower in London (now known as the BT Tower), designed by Eric Bedford and G. R. Yeats, is topped out.

The Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

December 28 – Kyoto Tower in Kyoto, Japan opens.
date unknown
- Tour de la Bourse in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is completed and becomes the tallest building in the British Commonwealth (1964–1967).
- CBS Building in New York City, the only skyscraper designed by Eero Saarinen (d. 1961).
- Prudential Tower in Boston, United States, designed by Charles Luckman and Associates.
- The Erieview Tower in Downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is completed as part of the Erieview urban renewal plan.
- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art new building, designed by William Pereira.
- Founders Tower (Oklahoma City).
- Casino Tower in Niagara Falls.
- Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters in Philadelphia, United States, designed by Pietro Belluschi and George M. Ewing Co.
- Fernmeldeturm Berlin in Berlin, Germany, is completed after 3 years.
- The Fernmeldeturm Ulm-Ermingen in Ulm-Ermingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Pääskyvuoren linkkitorni in Turku, Finland.
- The Ušće Tower in Belgrade, Serbia (badly damaged in 1999 by NATO airstrikes, but reconstructed in 2004).
- The Royal College of Physicians in London, designed by Denys Lasdun.
- Swiss Cottage Central Library for the London Borough of Camden, designed by Sir Basil Spence.
- The Economist Group headquarters in the City of London, designed by Peter and Alison Smithson.^[4]
- The Snowdon Aviary, London Zoo, designed by Lord Snowdon, Cedric Price and Frank Newby, is completed.^[4]^[5]
- St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo, Japan (Roman Catholic), designed by Kenzō Tange, is completed.
- St Mary's Church, Leyland, Lancashire, England (Roman Catholic), designed by J. Faczynski of Weightman and Bullen.
- Synagogue for Belfast Hebrew Congregation (Northern Ireland) designed by Eugene Rosenberg of Yorke Rosenberg Mardall.
- Extension to the Ulster Museum, Belfast, designed in Brutalist style by Francis Pym, completed.
- The Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology in Washington, D.C., designed by McKim, Mead & White, opens to the public (January 23).^[6]
- Fondation Maeght museum of modern art at Saint-Paul-de-Vence in the Alpes-Maritimes of France, designed by Spanish Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert, is opened (July 28).^[7]
- New House, Shipton-under-Wychwood, England, designed by Roy Stout and Patrick Litchfield.^[8]

Awards

AIA Gold Medal – Pier Luigi Nervi
Architecture Firm Award – The Architects Collaborative
RAIA Gold Medal – Cobden Parkes
RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Maxwell Fry
Prix de Rome, architecture – Bernard Schoebel
Rome Prize Fellowship at American Academy in Rome – Charles O. Perry

Births

September 15 – Alan Jones, Northern Ireland-born architect
date unknown
- Heike Hanada, German artist, architect and teacher of architecture
- Greg Lynn, American architect and academic

Deaths

February 3 – Albert Richardson, English architect, writer, and Professor of Architecture (born 1880)^[9]
March 28 – Vlastislav Hofman, Czech artist and architect (born 1884)
June 26 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch furniture designer and architect (born 1888)
July 17 – Maurice Glaize, French architect and archeologist (born 1886)
July 23 – Arkady Mordvinov, Soviet Stalinist architect (born 1896)
November 5 – Percy Erskine Nobbs, Montreal Arts & Crafts architect (born 1875)

References

^ Tucker, T. (2006). The Visitor's Guide to the City of London Churches. London: Friends of the City Churches. ISBN 0-9553945-0-3.
^ Billings, Henrietta (May 2012). "Dawson's Heights: the 'Italian' hill town in Dulwich". The Twentieth Century Society. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
^ McIver, Graeme. "Our Famous Grade A-Listed Stand". Galashiels: Gala Fairydean Rovers F.C. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
^ ^a ^b Harwood, Elain (2003). England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings (rev. ed.). London: Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8818-2.
^ "ZSL Architecture". ZSL. Archived from the original on 28 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-06.
^ "Mission & History". National Museum of American History. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
^ "The Maeght Foundation, a unique site dedicated to art". Fondation Maeght. 2010. Archived from the original on 2012-10-22. Retrieved 2012-10-16.
^ Brooks, Alan (2017). Oxfordshire: North and West. Pevsner Architectural Guides. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. p. 463. ISBN 978-0-300-20930-3.
^ "Sir Albert Richardson". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 19 January 2018.

[1] Tucker, T. (2006). The Visitor's Guide to the City of London Churches. London: Friends of the City Churches. ISBN 0-9553945-0-3.

[2] Billings, Henrietta (May 2012). "Dawson's Heights: the 'Italian' hill town in Dulwich". The Twentieth Century Society. Retrieved 2018-01-28.

[3] McIver, Graeme. "Our Famous Grade A-Listed Stand". Galashiels: Gala Fairydean Rovers F.C. Retrieved 2017-01-24.

[England-4] Harwood, Elain (2003). England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings (rev. ed.). London: Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8818-2.

[5] "ZSL Architecture". ZSL. Archived from the original on 28 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-06.

[6] "Mission & History". National Museum of American History. Retrieved 2018-02-14.

[7] "The Maeght Foundation, a unique site dedicated to art". Fondation Maeght. 2010. Archived from the original on 2012-10-22. Retrieved 2012-10-16.

[8] Brooks, Alan (2017). Oxfordshire: North and West. Pevsner Architectural Guides. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. p. 463. ISBN 978-0-300-20930-3.

[9] "Sir Albert Richardson". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 19 January 2018.

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