1953 in architecture

The year 1953 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

 * Gordon Ryder and Peter Yates form an architectural practice based in Newcastle upon Tyne in the north of England.

Buildings and structures completed

 * Main building of Moscow State University, the tallest building in Europe (1953–1990) and the tallest educational building in the world (1953–present), designed by Lev Rudnev.
 * St Crispin's School, Wokingham, Berkshire, England, designed by the U.K. Ministry of Education.
 * YMCA Indian Student Hostel, Fitzrovia, London, designed by Ralph Tubbs.
 * Housing at Chandigarh, Punjab (India), designed by Le Corbusier in collaboration with Pierre Jeanneret, Jane Drew, Maxwell Fry, B. V. Doshi and others.
 * Mardyke Road (residential crescent), Harlow New Town, England, designed by Frederick Gibberd.
 * Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede, England, designed by Edward Maufe, dedicated October 17.
 * English Martyrs' Church, Wallasey, designed by F. X. Velarde, dedicated August 31.
 * New building for Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, the first major commission for Louis Kahn, opened November.
 * Lijnbaan pedestrianised shopping street in Rotterdam, designed by Jo van den Broek and Jacob B. Bakema.

Awards

 * American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Frank Lloyd Wright.
 * AIA Gold Medal – William Adams Delano.
 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Le Corbusier.
 * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Olivier-Clément Cacoub.

Publications

 * Ivan Chtcheglov (as Gilles Ivain) – Formulaire pour un urbanisme nouveau.
 * John Summerson –  Architecture in Britain, 1530–1830.

Births

 * March 26 - Phil Freelon, American architect (Died. 2019)
 * November 7 – Peter Janesch, Hungarian architect
 * December 18 – David Chipperfield, English architect
 * Sheila O'Donnell, Irish architect
 * Richard Weston, English architect

Deaths

 * May 31 – Vladimir Tatlin, Soviet Russian architect (born 1885)
 * August 17 – Sir Banister Fletcher, English architectural historian (born 1866)
 * September 15 – Erich Mendelsohn, German-born architect (born 1887)
 * December 13 – Ad van der Steur, Dutch architect (born 1893)