1978 in architecture
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The year 1978 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings completed
- Sunshine 60 in Tokyo, Japan
- Reunion Tower in Dallas, Texas
- United Nations City in Vienna, Austria
- 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
- Sanctuary of Meritxell, Andorra, designed by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
- Sheep Field Barn (sculpture gallery for Henry Moore Foundation), Perry Green, Hertfordshire, UK, designed by Hawkins\Brown.
- Comodoro Rivadavia Cathedral in Argentina is dedicated.
- Gehry House by Frank Gehry in Santa Monica, California.
Events
- Herzog & de Meuron Architekten set up in Basel.
- Manfredi Nicoletti publishes L'ecosistema urbano (The Urban ecosystem) - a term that he himself has coined.
- Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter publish Collage City.