1977 in architecture

The year 1977 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings

 * January 1 – The Hilton Budapest hotel, designed by Béla Pintér, is opened.
 * January 31 – The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, designed by Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini, is opened.
 * February 28 – The 'Beehive', New Zealand Parliament Buildings, Wellington, designed by government architect Fergus Sheppard and W. M. Angus to a concept by Basil Spence, first stage officially opened.
 * March – Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, designed by John C. Portman Jr., is inaugurated.
 * April 19 – Yale Center for British Art gallery, designed by Louis Kahn (died 1974), opens to the public in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
 * Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, designed by Norman Foster.
 * Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran, designed by Kamran Diba, is inaugurated.
 * Extension to Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava, designed by Vladimír Dedeček, is completed.
 * 30 Cannon Street in the City of London, England, designed by engineers Whinney, Son & Austen Hall with Ove Arup & Partners, is completed for Crédit Lyonnais.
 * The Citigroup Center at 601 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, is completed; its structural engineer William LeMessurier subsequently discovers it is vulnerable to extreme wind conditions and clandestine retrospective strengthening is carried out.
 * The Fernmeldeturm Nürnberg in Nürnberg, Germany is completed.
 * The MLC Centre in Sydney, Australia is completed and opened.
 * The Torre Espacial in Buenos Aires, Argentina is completed.
 * The Silberturm in Frankfurt am Main, Germany is completed.
 * The Shell Centre (Calgary) in Calgary, Alberta
 * The Dome Tower, Calgary and Home Oil Tower, Calgary in Calgary
 * The Harbour Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is completed.
 * The Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan is completed.
 * Penton Street flats in Islington, London, designed by John Melvin.
 * Cube houses in the Netherlands, designed by Piet Blom, built in Helmond and designed for Rotterdam.
 * The rose window of Lancing College Chapel in England, designed by Stephen Dykes Bower, is completed.

Awards

 * AIA Gold Medal – Richard Neutra (posthumous)
 * Architecture Firm Award – Sert Jackson and Associates
 * Grand prix national de l'architecture – Paul Andreu; Roland Simounet
 * RAIA Gold Medal – Ronald Gilling
 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Denys Lasdun
 * Twenty-five Year Award – Christ Lutheran Church

Publications

 * A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein.
 * The Language of Postmodern Architecture by Charles Jencks.

Births

 * December 21 – Michel Abboud, Lebanese-born architect

Deaths

 * March 5 – Herman Munthe-Kaas, Norwegian functionalist architect (born 1890)
 * August 25 – Károly Kós, Hungarian architect, writer, illustrator, ethnologist and politician (born 1883)
 * December 23 – Raymond McGrath, Australian-born architect, illustrator and interior designer working in Ireland (born 1903)
 * Genia Averbuch, Israeli architect (born 1909)