1983 in architecture

The year 1983 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings opened

 * April 19 – Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex, Caracas, Venezuela, designed by Tomás Lugo Marcano, Jesús Sandoval and Dietrich Kunckel completed.
 * May 1 – Church of the Holy Mother of God (Aleppo), Syria.
 * October 15 – The Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta.
 * October 21 – The Burrell Collection Building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, designed by Barry Gasson.

Buildings completed

 * The Conoco-Phillips Building in Anchorage, Alaska.
 * The Alma-Ata Tower in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
 * Western Canadian Place in Calgary, Alberta
 * Henningsvær Bridges, Norway.
 * Wells Fargo Bank Plaza in Houston, Texas.
 * Williams Tower/ Transco Tower in Houston, Texas.
 * ARCO Tower in Dallas, Texas.
 * The Mellon Bank Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 * Trump Tower in New York City.
 * One Cleveland Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
 * Manulife Place in Edmonton, Alberta
 * Miami Center in Miami, Florida.
 * High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, designed by Richard Meier,
 * Pasilan linkkitorni tower, Helsinki, Finland.
 * Slovak Radio Building in Bratislava, designed by Štefan Svetko, Štefan Ďurkovič and Barnabáš Kissling.
 * Slovak National Archives in Bratislava, designed by Vladimir Dedeček.
 * Sainsbury Building, Worcester College, Oxford, England, designed by Richard MacCormac.
 * Forestry department offices (later Daugavkrasti Hotel), Jēkabpils, Latvia, designed by Vanda Baulina.
 * Les Espaces d’Abraxas social housing complex, Marne-la-Vallée, France, designed by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura.

Buildings designed

 * Baghdad State Mosque (Iraq), designed by Rasem Badran; never built.

Awards

 * Aga Khan Award for Architecture – Zlatko Ugljen, for Šerefudin's White Mosque, built in Visoko.
 * AIA Gold Medal – Nathaniel Alexander Owings.
 * Architecture Firm Award – Holabird & Root.
 * Pritzker Prize – I. M. Pei.
 * RAIA Gold Medal – Gilbert Nic and Ross Chisholm.
 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Norman Foster.
 * Twenty-five Year Award – Price Tower.

Deaths

 * January 29 – Piloo Mody, Indian architect and politician (born 1926)
 * July 1 – Richard Buckminster Fuller, American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (born 1895)
 * June 12 – Clemens Holzmeister, Austrian architect and stage designer (born 1886)
 * August 18
 * Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born historian of art and architecture, author of a series of county guides to English architecture (born 1902)
 * Jan Zachwatowicz, Polish architect, architectural historian and restorer (born 1900)
 * Giuseppe Samoná, Italian architect (born 1898)