1952 in architecture

The year 1952 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

 * April – Stockwell Garage, designed by Adie, Button and Partners, with engineer A. E. Beer, is opened by London Transport.
 * December 15 – The Sands Hotel, designed by Wayne McAllister, is opened on the Las Vegas Strip (demolished 30 June 1996).
 * Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects, completed in the Brush Park section of Detroit, Michigan.
 * Edificio Miguel E. Abed completed in Mexico City using the latest technology for earthquake engineering.
 * Kotelnicheskaya Embankment apartments completed in the central Tagansky District in Moscow, and one of the "Seven Sisters".
 * Lever House, designed by Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, is completed at 390 Park Avenue in New York City.
 * Liljestrand House in Honolulu, Hawaii, designed by Vladimir Ossipoff, is completed.
 * Utzon's House in Hellebæk (Denmark), designed by Jørn Utzon for himself, is built.
 * Säynätsalo Town Hall in Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto, is completed.
 * Unité d'Habitation in Marseille, designed by Le Corbusier, is completed.
 * Pedregulho Housing Complex in Rio de Janeiro, designed by Affonso Eduardo Reidy, is inaugurated.
 * United Nations Secretariat Building on Manhattan, designed by France's Le Corbusier and Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, is completed.
 * Dorton Arena ("Paraboleum"), Raleigh, North Carolina, designed by Matthew Nowicki (died 1950), is built.

Awards

 * AIA Gold Medal – Auguste Perret.
 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – George Grey Wornum.

Births

 * February 15 – Marco Piva, Italian
 * July 25 – Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese
 * December 15 – David Marks, British (d. 2017)
 * Shelley McNamara, Irish

Deaths

 * December 26 – Robert Atkinson, English (born 1883)