1951 in architecture

The year 1951 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

 * January 2 – Federal Reserve Bank Building (Seattle), designed by William J. Bain of NBBJ, opened.
 * February 19 – Mount Sinai Hospital (Minneapolis), designed by Liebenberg and Kaplan, opens.
 * February 28 – Bronx River Houses completed in the Soundview section of The Bronx in New York City.
 * May 3 – Festival of Britain opened in London:
 * Royal Festival Hall, designed by Leslie Martin, Peter Moro and Robert Matthew.
 * Dome of Discovery, designed by Ralph Tubbs.
 * Skylon, designed by Philip Powell, Hidalgo Moya and Felix Samuely.
 * Telecinema, designed by Wells Coates.
 * Riverside Restaurant, New Schools building and Waterloo entrance tower, designed by Jane Drew with Maxwell Fry.
 * The Land of Britain and The People of Britain pavilions, the Turntable Café and the "Concourse" promenade, designed by H. T. Cadbury-Brown.
 * Fountain by Eduardo Paolozzi.
 * '51 Bar by Leonard Manasseh and Ian Baker.
 * The Lansbury Estate in Poplar is begun as a housing showcase.
 * May 23 – Terrace Theatre (Minnesota), designed by Liebenberg and Kaplan, opens.
 * 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments are completed in Chicago, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
 * Healy Guest House, Siesta Key, Florida, designed by Paul Rudolph and Ralph Twitchell is completed.
 * The JK Building completed in Belo Horizonte, Brazil as designed by Oscar Niemeyer.
 * Farnsworth House (Plano, Illinois) is completed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Events

 * The antenna of the Empire State Building in New York City is added to the building.
 * Nikolaus Pevsner publishes the first in his Buildings of England series for Penguin Books, the volume on Nottinghamshire.
 * Norman Jewson publishes his autobiographical By Chance I did Rove.

Awards

 * AIA Gold Medal – Bernard Ralph Maybeck.
 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Vincent Harris.
 * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Louis de Hoÿm de Marien.

Births

 * July 28 – Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect and structural engineer
 * Yvonne Farrell, Irish architect

Deaths

 * February 6 – William Alexander Harvey, English architect working in Birmingham (born 1874)
 * July 22 – Arthur Joseph Davis, English architect (born 1878)
 * Herbert Tudor Buckland, British architect working in Birmingham (born 1869)