Editing 1977 in architecture

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The year '''1977 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==Buildings and structures==
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===Buildings===
[[File:Pompidou center.jpg|thumb|Pompidou Centre]]
[[File:Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art 4.JPG|thumb|The [[Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art]] in Iran]]
[[File:Cube Houses in Rotterdam 2018 GraphyArchy 00258.jpg|thumb|[[Cube house]]s in the [[Netherlands]], designed for [[Rotterdam]]]]
* [[January 1]] – The [[Hilton Budapest]] hotel, designed by Béla Pintér, is opened.
* [[January 31]] – The [[Centre Georges Pompidou]] in [[Paris]], designed by [[Renzo Piano]], [[Richard Rogers]] and [[Gianfranco Franchini]], is opened.<ref>[http://www.fondazionerenzopiano.org/project/83/centre-georges-pompidou/genesis/ Fondazione Renzo Piano]. Retrieved 2014-06-09.</ref>
* [[February 28]] – The '[[Beehive (New Zealand)|Beehive]]', [[New Zealand Parliament Buildings]], Wellington, designed by government architect Fergus Sheppard and W. M. Angus to a concept by [[Basil Spence]], first stage officially opened.
* March – [[Renaissance Center]] in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], designed by [[John C. Portman Jr.]], is inaugurated.
* [[April 19]] – [[Yale Center for British Art]] gallery, designed by [[Louis Kahn]] (died [[1974 in architecture|1974]]), opens to the public in [[New Haven, Connecticut]], United States.
* [[Sainsbury Centre]] at the [[University of East Anglia]] in [[Norwich]], [[England]], designed by [[Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank|Norman Foster]].
* [[Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art]] in Iran, designed by [[Kamran Diba]], is inaugurated.
* [[:File:Bratislava-slovenská národná galéria.jpg|Extension]] to [[Slovak National Gallery]] in [[Bratislava]], designed by [[:sk:Vladimír Dedeček|Vladimír Dedeček]], is completed.
* [[30 Cannon Street]] in the [[City of London]], England, designed by engineers Whinney, Son & Austen Hall with [[Ove Arup & Partners]], is completed for Crédit Lyonnais.
* The [[Citigroup Center]] at 601 [[Lexington Avenue]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]], is completed; its structural engineer [[William LeMessurier]] subsequently discovers it is vulnerable to extreme wind conditions and clandestine retrospective strengthening is carried out.
* The [[Fernmeldeturm Nürnberg]] in [[Nürnberg]], [[Germany]] is completed.
* The [[MLC Centre]] in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]] is completed and opened.
* The [[Torre Espacial]] in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]] is completed.
* The [[Silberturm]] in [[Frankfurt am Main]], [[Germany]] is completed.
* The [[Shell Centre (Calgary)]] in [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]]
* The [[Dome Tower, Calgary]] and [[Home Oil Tower, Calgary]] in [[Calgary]]
* The [[Harbour Centre]] in [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]] is completed.
* The [[Renaissance Center]] in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]] is completed.
* Penton Street flats in [[Islington]], London, designed by [[John Melvin (architect)|John Melvin]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Survey of London|volume=46|chapter=Penton Street and Chapel Market area|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol47/pp373-404|year=2008|accessdate=2015-01-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Stones of Oxford: Conjectures on a Cockleshell|first=John|last=Melvin|publisher=Papadakis|location=Winterbourne|year=2011|isbn=978-1-906506-13-1}}</ref>
* [[Cube house]]s in the [[Netherlands]], designed by [[Piet Blom]], built in [[Helmond]] and designed for [[Rotterdam]].
* The [[rose window]] of [[Lancing College]] Chapel in England, designed by [[Stephen Dykes Bower]], is completed.

==Awards==
* [[AIA Gold Medal]] – [[Richard Neutra]] (posthumous)<ref>{{cite web|title=Gold Medal|url=https://www.aia.org/awards/7046-gold-medal|website=www.aia.org|accessdate=28 December 2016}}</ref>
* [[Architecture Firm Award]] – [[Sert Jackson and Associates]]
* [[Grand prix national de l'architecture]] – [[Paul Andreu]]; [[Roland Simounet]]
* [[Royal Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal|RAIA Gold Medal]] – [[Ronald Gilling]]
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Denys Lasdun]]
* [[Twenty-five Year Award]] – [[Christ Church Lutheran (Minneapolis, Minnesota)|Christ Lutheran Church]]

==Publications==
* ''[[A Pattern Language]]'' by [[Christopher Alexander]], [[Sara Ishikawa]] and [[Murray Silverstein]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.katarxis3.com/Review_Nature_Order.htm|first=Michael|last=Mehaffy|title=Towards a New Science of Architecture, and a New Architecture of Science: A Review of Alexander's New Magnum Opus, ''The Nature of Order''|work=Katarxis|issue=3|location=London|date=September 2004|accessdate=2015-01-14}}</ref>
* ''The Language of Postmodern Architecture'' by [[Charles Jencks]].

==Births==
* [[December 21]] – [[Michel Abboud]], Lebanese-born architect

==Deaths==
* [[March 5]] – [[Herman Munthe-Kaas]], Norwegian functionalist architect (born [[1890 in architecture|1890]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Károly Kós]], Hungarian architect, writer, illustrator, ethnologist and politician (born [[1883 in architecture|1883]])
* [[December 23]] – [[Raymond McGrath]], Australian-born architect, illustrator and interior designer working in Ireland (born [[1903 in architecture|1903]])
* [[Genia Averbuch]], Israeli architect (born [[1909 in architecture|1909]])

==References==
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