Editing 1983 in architecture

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The year '''1983 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1983}}
===Buildings opened===
[[File:Vista Teatro teresa carreño.jpg|thumb|[[Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex]], [[Caracas]], Venezuela]]
* [[April 19]] – [[Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex]], [[Caracas]], Venezuela, designed by Tomás Lugo Marcano, Jesús Sandoval and Dietrich Kunckel completed.
* [[May 1]] – [[Church of the Holy Mother of God (Aleppo)]], Syria.
* [[October 15]] – The [[Saddledome]] in [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]].
* [[October 21]] – The [[Burrell Collection]] Building in [[Glasgow]], Scotland, UK, designed by Barry Gasson.

===Buildings completed===
[[File:High Museum of Art in Atlanta.jpg|thumb|[[High Museum of Art]] in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], USA]]
[[File:Upside down Pyramid, Bratislava 02.jpg|thumb|The [[Slovak Radio Building]] in [[Bratislava]], Slovakia]]
* The [[Conoco-Phillips Building]] in [[Anchorage, Alaska]].
* The [[Alma-Ata Tower]] in [[Almaty]], [[Kazakhstan]].
* [[Western Canadian Place]] in [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]]
* [[Henningsvær Bridges]], Norway.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.lotsberg.net/data/norway/bru-2.html|chapter=Road Viaducts & Bridges in Norway (499-200 m)|editor-last=Merzagora|editor-first=Eugenio A.|title=Norske bruer og viadukter|accessdate=2012-07-16|archive-date=2020-07-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719234957/http://www.lotsberg.net/data/norway/bru-2.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Wells Fargo Plaza (Houston)|Wells Fargo Bank Plaza]] in [[Houston]], [[Texas]].
* [[Williams Tower]]/ Transco Tower in Houston, Texas.
* [[ARCO Tower]] in [[Dallas, Texas]].
* The [[Mellon Bank Center]] in [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania.
* [[Trump Tower (New York)|Trump Tower]] in New York City.
* [[One Cleveland Center]] in [[Cleveland]], [[Ohio]].
* [[Manulife Place]] in [[Edmonton]], [[Alberta]]
* [[Miami Center]] in [[Miami]], [[Florida]].
* [[High Museum of Art]] in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], designed by [[Richard Meier]],
* [[Pasilan linkkitorni]] tower, Helsinki, Finland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=292|title=Pasilan linkkitorni|work=SkyscraperPage.com |accessdate=2007-09-14}}</ref>
* [[Slovak Radio Building]] in [[Bratislava]], designed by Štefan Svetko, Štefan Ďurkovič and Barnabáš Kissling.
* [[Slovak National Archives]] in Bratislava, designed by Vladimir Dedeček.
* [[:File:Sainsbury Building.jpg|Sainsbury Building]], [[Worcester College, Oxford]], England, designed by [[Richard MacCormac]].
* Forestry department offices (later Daugavkrasti Hotel), [[Jēkabpils]], Latvia, designed by Vanda Baulina.
* Les Espaces d’Abraxas social housing complex, [[Marne-la-Vallée]], France, designed by [[Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura]].

===Buildings designed===
* [[Baghdad]] State Mosque (Iraq), designed by [[Rasem Badran]]; never built.<ref>{{cite web|title=Baghdad State Mosque (Design)|url=https://www.archnet.org/sites/14897|work=Archnet|accessdate=2023-11-25}}</ref>

==Awards==
* [[Aga Khan Award for Architecture]] – [[Zlatko Ugljen]], for [[Šerefudin's White Mosque]], built in [[Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina|Visoko]].
* [[AIA Gold Medal]] – [[Nathaniel Alexander Owings]].
* [[Architecture Firm Award]] – [[Holabird & Roche|Holabird & Root]].
* [[Pritzker Prize]] – [[I. M. Pei]].
* [[Royal Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal|RAIA Gold Medal]] – [[Gilbert Nic]] and [[Ross Chisholm (architect)|Ross Chisholm]].
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank|Norman Foster]].
* [[Twenty-five Year Award]] – [[Price Tower]].

==Deaths==
[[File:Giuseppe Samonà.jpg|thumb|Giuseppe Samonà]]
* [[January 29]] – [[Piloo Mody]], [[India]]n architect and politician (born [[1926 in architecture|1926]])
* [[July 1]] – [[Richard Buckminster Fuller]], [[Americans|American]] architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (born [[1895 in architecture|1895]])
* [[June 12]] – [[Clemens Holzmeister]], Austrian architect and stage designer (born [[1886 in architecture|1886]])
* [[August 18]]
** [[Nikolaus Pevsner]], German-born historian of art and architecture, author of a series of county guides to English architecture (born [[1902 in architecture|1902]])
** [[Jan Zachwatowicz]], Polish architect, architectural historian and restorer (born [[1900 in architecture|1900]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Zachwatowicz, Jan|encyclopedia=[[Internetowa encyklopedia PWN]]|url=http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=3999755|accessdate=2007-05-12|language=pl|date=|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607135614/http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=3999755|archivedate=2011-06-07|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Giuseppe Samoná]], Italian architect (born [[1898 in architecture|1898]])

==References==
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