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Overview of the events of 1956 in architecture
The year 1956 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures[edit]
Buildings opened[edit]
Theater Münster, Germany
- 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).[1]
- April 30 – Torre Latinoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico, designed by Augusto H. Alvarez.
- July 31 – Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, USSR.
Buildings completed[edit]
S. R. Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
Mausoleum of Genghis Khan in Inner Mongolia, China
- 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.[citation needed]
- Maisons Jaoul in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, designed by Le Corbusier in 1937.[2]
- Mausoleum of Genghis Khan completed as a cenotaph in Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China.[3]
- Vidhana Soudha, completed in Bangalore, India, designed by Kengal Hanumanthaiah.[4]
- 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.[5]
Josef Hoffmann
References[edit]
- ^ "The Visit to Bristol of Queen Elizabeth II and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh on April 17 1956". Retrieved June 20, 2018.
- ^ Frampton, Kenneth; Schezen, Roberto (2002). Le Corbusier: architect of the twentieth century. New York: H.N. Abrams. p. 14.153.
- ^ Bayar, Nasan (2007), "On Chinggis Khan and Being Like a Buddha: A Perspective on Cultural Conflation in Contemporary Inner Mongolia", The Mongolia–Tibet Interface: Opening New Research Terrains in Inner Asia, Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, Vol. 10/9, Proceedings of the 10th Seminar of the IATS, Oxford, 2003, Leiden: Brill, p. 211, ISBN 9789004155213
- ^ Lang, Jon T. (2002). A concise history of modern architecture in India. Orient Blackswan. pp. 40–41. ISBN 978-81-7824-017-6.
- ^ The Twentieth Century Society (2017). 100 Houses 100 Years. London: Batsford. ISBN 978-1-84994-437-3.
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