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The year '''1943 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==Events==
* The [[Athens Charter]] is published by the [[Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne]] group of architects.
* [[Nikolaus Pevsner]]'s book ''An Outline of European Architecture'' is published in Britain.
* The ''[[County of London Plan]]'' is prepared by [[J. H. Forshaw]] and [[Patrick Abercrombie]].

==Buildings and structures==
[[File:The Pentagon DCA 08 2010 9854.jpg|thumb|[[The Pentagon]]]]
[[File:Sandö Bridge Sweden.jpg|thumb|[[Sandö Bridge]]]]
===Buildings opened===
* [[January 15]] – [[The Pentagon]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], [[United States]], designed by [[George Bergstrom]]
* [[April 13]] – The [[Jefferson Memorial]] in Washington D.C., designed by [[John Russell Pope]]
* [[Peace River Suspension Bridge]], Canada (collapsed 1957)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://collections.ic.gc.ca/north_peace/transport/02.07.html|title=Collapsed Peace River Bridge|work=History of the North Peace|accessdate=2006-02-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050409094945/http://collections.ic.gc.ca/north_peace/transport/02.07.html|archive-date=2005-04-09|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Sandö Bridge]], Sweden
* [[Surp Hagop Church]], Aleppo, Syria
* [[Church of Saint Francis of Assisi]], [[Pampulha (Belo Horizonte)|Pampulha]], [[Belo Horizonte]], [[Minas Gerais]], Brazil, designed by [[Oscar Niemeyer]]
* [[Umaid Bhawan Palace]], [[Jodhpur]], India, designed by [[Henry Vaughan Lanchester]] (begun [[1929 in architecture|1929]])
* Block D, [[Bletchley Park]], England.
===Buildings completed===
* [[Casa Malaparte]] on [[Capri]], house for [[Curzio Malaparte]] designed by him with [[Adalberto Libera]] and builder Adolfo Amitrano (begun [[1937 in architecture|1937]])

==Awards==
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Charles Herbert Reilly]].
* [[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture: André Chatelin and [[Jean Dubuisson]].

==Births==
* [[January 3]] – [[Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp]], German-born architect (died [[2004 in architecture|2004]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Peter Vetsch]], Swiss architect
* [[April 1]] – [[Mario Botta]], Swiss architect
* [[April 24]] – [[Franco Stella]], Italian architect
* [[April 26]] – [[Peter Zumthor]], Swiss architect<ref>{{cite news|first=Robin|last=Pogrebin|date=2009-04-12|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/arts/design/13pritzker.html|title=Pritzker Prize Goes to Peter Zumthor|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
* [[August 7]] – [[Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil]], Egyptian architect working in [[Islamic architecture|Islamic]] and [[New Classical architecture|New Classical]] styles

==Deaths==
* [[June 27]] – [[Knud Arne Petersen]], Danish architect and director of Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen (born [[1862 in architecture|1862]])
* [[July 19]] – [[Giuseppe Terragni]], Italian Rationalist architect (born [[1904 in architecture|1904]]; thrombosis)
* [[November 29]] – [[John Virginius Bennes]], Oregon architect (born [[1867 in architecture|1867]])

==References==
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