1956 in architecture

The year 1956 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings opened

 * February – Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
 * February 4 – Theater Münster in Germany, designed by Werner Ruhnau, Harald Deilmann, Max von Hausen and Ortwin Rave.
 * April 17 – Council House, Bristol, England, UK, designed by Vincent Harris (begun 1938).
 * April 30 – Torre Latinoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico, designed by Augusto H. Alvarez.
 * July 31 – Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, USSR.

Buildings completed

 * Capitol Records Building in Hollywood, California, the world's first round office building, designed by architect Welton Becket.
 * S. R. Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, United States, designed by the current head of IIT's architecture department Mies van der Rohe.
 * General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, United States, designed by Eero Saarinen.
 * Latvian Academy of Sciences, Riga, Latvia, designed by Lev Rudnev.
 * Maisons Jaoul in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, designed by Le Corbusier in 1937.
 * Mausoleum of Genghis Khan completed as a cenotaph in Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China.
 * Vidhana Soudha, completed in Bangalore, India, designed by Kengal Hanumanthaiah.
 * Bank of England Printing Works at Loughton, designed by Howard Robertson.
 * National Pensions Institute, Helsinki, Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto.
 * Rødovre Town Hall, Denmark, designed by Arne Jacobsen.
 * St Mark's Church (Markuskyrkan), Björkhagen, Stockholm, Sweden, designed by Sigurd Lewerentz.
 * Faculty of Letters building at the University of Reading, England, UK, designed by Howard Robertson.
 * Rothschild estate cottages, Poplar Meadow, Rushbrooke, Suffolk, England, UK, designed by John Weeks.
 * H. J. Lovink Pumping Station on the Flevopolder in the Netherlands, designed by Dirk Roosenburg.

Awards

 * AIA Gold Medal – Clarence S. Stein.
 * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Michel Folliasson.
 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Walter Gropius.

Births

 * January 15 – Vitaly Kaloyev, Russian architect and politician
 * October 29 – Kazuyo Sejima, Japanese architect
 * November 25 – Stefano Boeri, Italian architect and urban planner
 * November – Teresa Borsuk, British architect

Deaths

 * February 25 – Philip Tilden, English domestic architect (born 1887)
 * May 7 – Josef Hoffmann, Austrian architect and designer (born 1870)
 * July 21 – Lionel Bailey Budden, English architect and academic (born 1877)
 * September 8 – Oskar Kaufmann, Hungarian-Jewish architect known for his works in Berlin (born 1873)
 * November 20 – Joseph Emberton, English modernist architect (born 1889)
 * December 21 – Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Catalan Spanish Modernista architect known for his works in Barcelona (born 1867)