Editing 1963 in architecture

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The year '''1963 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==Events==
* [[October 28]] – Work begins on demolition of [[Pennsylvania Station (1910–1963)|Pennsylvania Station (New York City)]], surface buildings designed by [[McKim, Mead and White]] in 1910, a key influence on the [[historic preservation]] movement.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1963/10/29/archives/demolition-starts-at-penn-station-architects-picket-penn-station.html|title=Demolition Starts At Penn Station; Architects Picket; Penn Station Demolition Begun; 6 Architects Call Act a 'Shame'|last=Tolchin|first=Martin|date=1963-10-29|website=The New York Times|access-date=2018-05-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180523100724/https://www.nytimes.com/1963/10/29/archives/demolition-starts-at-penn-station-architects-picket-penn-station.html|archive-date=2018-05-23|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Work begins on the [[Ostankino Tower]], designed by [[Nikolai Nikitin]].
* Work begins on the [[University of East Anglia]] in [[Norwich]], [[England]], designed by [[Denys Lasdun]].
* [[Team 4]] architectural practice established by [[Richard Rogers]], [[Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank|Norman Foster]] and their respective wives.
* The [[avant-garde]] architectural collective [[Archigram]] stages the ''Living Cities'' exhibition at the [[Institute of Contemporary Arts]] in London.

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1963}}
===Buildings opened===
[[File:Porto DSC 0172 (21107792244).jpg|thumb|[[Arrábida Bridge]], [[Douro]] river, Portugal]]
[[File:Philharmonie 1a.jpg|thumb|[[Berliner Philharmonie]], Germany]]
* February – [[Springs Mills Building]] on [[Manhattan]], [[New York City|New York]], United States, designed by [[Harrison & Abramovitz]].
* [[March 7]] – [[MetLife Building]] on Manhattan, New York, United States, designed by Richard Roth.
* [[June 22]] – [[Arrábida Bridge]], [[Douro]] river, Portugal, designed by [[Edgar Cardoso (engineer)|Edgar Cardoso]].
* [[October 15]] – [[Berliner Philharmonie]] concert hall, designed by [[Hans Scharoun]].
* November – [[Phoenix Life Insurance Company Building]] in [[Hartford, Connecticut]], designed by [[Max Abramovitz]].

===Buildings completed===
[[File:Meriken-park-yakei.jpg|thumb|[[Kobe Port Tower]] in [[Kobe]], Japan]]
* [[St John the Baptist's Church, Ermine, Lincoln]], [[Lincoln, England]], designed by [[Sam Scorer]].
* [[:File:NDR-Funkhaus broadcast station Rudolf-von-Bennigsen-Ufer Suedstadt Hannover Germany 01.jpg|Großer Sendesaal]] (concert hall) of [[Landesfunkhaus Niedersachsen|Hanover Broadcast Station]] in West Germany, designed by [[Dieter Oesterlen]].
* [[Bankside Power Station]] in [[London]], designed by [[Giles Gilbert Scott]]. ([[Adaptive reuse]] as the [[Tate Modern]] art museum in 2000.)
* [[Millbank Tower|Vickers Tower]] on [[Millbank]] in London, designed by Ronald Ward and Partners.
* [[Alexander Fleming House]], Blocks A-C, at [[Elephant and Castle]] in London, designed by [[Ernő Goldfinger]].
* [[:File:Darwin Building, Royal College of Art in London, spring 2013.JPG|Darwin Building]], [[Royal College of Art]], South Kensington, London, designed by [[H. T. Cadbury-Brown|H. T.]] and [[Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown]], Sir [[Hugh Casson]] and Robert Goodden.
* [[University of Leicester Engineering Building]], [[England]], designed by [[James Stirling (architect)|James Stirling]] and [[James Gowan]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Elain|last=Harwood|title=England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings|edition=rev.|location=London|publisher=Batsford|year=2003|isbn=0-7134-8818-2}}</ref>
* Alpha House, [[Coventry]], England, built, a 17-storey residential tower block, the world's first multi-storey building erected by the "jack block" system devised by Felix Adler of [[Costain Group|Richard Costain (Construction) Ltd]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Roger|last=Cragg|title=Civil Engineering Heritage – West Midlands|location=Andover|publisher=Phillimore|year=2010|isbn=978-1-86077-572-7|page=130}}</ref>
*[[Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library]] at [[Yale University]], designed by [[Gordon Bunshaft]] of [[Skidmore, Owings & Merrill]].<ref>{{cite web |title=About the Building |url=https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/about-building |website=Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |publisher=Yale University |accessdate=21 September 2018}}</ref>
* Core buildings of [[Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge]], designed by [[Denys Lasdun]].
* [[Salk Institute]], by [[Louis I. Kahn]], at [[La Jolla, California]].
* [[Exxon Building (Houston)|Exxon Building]] in [[Houston, Texas]].
* Hotel Ivoire, [[Abidjan]], Ivory Coast, designed by [[Moshe Mayer]].
* [[Jamaraat Bridge]], Mina, Saudi Arabia.
* [[Kobe Port Tower]] in [[Kobe]], [[Japan]].
* [[Bunshaft Residence]] (sometimes called the Travertine House) in [[East Hampton (town), New York|East Hampton, New York]]: designed by architect [[Gordon Bunshaft]] for himself and his wife, and his only residential project.
* [[Sadovnichesky Bridge]], [[Vodootvodny Canal]], Moscow.

==Awards==
* [[American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals#Architecture|American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal]] – [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]]
* [[AIA Gold Medal]] – [[Alvar Aalto]]
* [[Royal Australian Institute of Architects|RAIA Gold Medal]] – [[Arthur Stephenson]]
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[William Holford]]
* [[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture – Jean-Louis Girodet

==Publications==
* [[John Summerson]] – ''[[The Classical Language of Architecture]]'' ([[BBC]]).

==Births==
* [[October 16]] – [[Filipe Oliveira Dias]], Portuguese architect and writer
* [[October 17]] – [[Alejandro Zaera]] Polo, Spanish architect and teacher
* [[June 24]] – [[Benedetta Tagliabue]], Italian architect based in Barcelona

==Deaths==
* [[February 11]] – [[Elmar Lohk]], Estonian architect (born [[1901 in architecture|1901]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Philip Hepworth]], English architect (born [[1890 in architecture|1890]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Adalberto Libera]], Italian modernist architect (born [[1903 in architecture|1903]])
* [[March 22]] – [[Herbert James Rowse]], English architect working in Liverpool (born [[1887 in architecture|1887]])
* [[April 5]] – [[J. J. P. Oud]], Dutch architect (born [[1890 in architecture|1890]])
* [[April 23]] – [[Adrian Gilbert Scott]], English church architect, grandson of Sir [[George Gilbert Scott]] (born [[1901 in architecture|1901]])

==References==
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