1954 in architecture
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The year 1954 in architecture involved some significant events.
- June 29 – Buckminster Fuller patents his geodesic dome design, later expressed in his Dymaxion House[1]
- November – Postwar United Kingdom government limitations on housebuilding are lifted[2]
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- April – Bevin Court public housing in the London borough of Finsbury, designed by Berthold Lubetkin with Francis Skinner and Douglas Carr[3]
- Autumn – Inauguration of the city district of Vällingby, in Stockholm, Sweden, planned by Sven Markelius[4]
- date unknown
- Ciudad Universitaria (University City), UNAM's main campus in Mexico City, designed by Mario Pani and Enrique del Moral
- Pruitt–Igoe housing project in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, first occupied[5]
Buildings completed
- date unknown
- Hunstanton Secondary Modern School, Hunstanton, Norfolk, England, designed by Peter and Alison Smithson, is completed[6]
- St Mary and St Joseph Roman Catholic Church on the Lansbury Estate in Poplar, East London, designed by Adrian Gilbert Scott, is completed[7]
- Goddard House, 22 Avenue Road, Stoneygate, Leicester, England, designed by Fello Atkinson and Brenda Walker of James Cubitt & Partners[8][2]
- Martin's (private house), Toys Hill, Brasted, Kent, England, designed by Powell and Moya, is completed[2]
Awards
- Prix de Rome, architecture – Michel Marot.
- Rome Prize Fellowship at American Academy in Rome – Robert Venturi.
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Arthur George Stephenson.