1966 in architecture

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Contents 1 Buildings 2 Awards 3 Events 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Buildings

• The Gateway Arch in St Louis, Missouri, designed by Eero Saarinen is completed.
• The Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, opens in June as a largest hospital of North America.

[edit] Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Kenzo Tange
• RAIA Gold Medal - William Laurie
• Royal Gold Medal - Ove Arup

[edit] Events

• Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi is published, his first attack on modernist architecture.

[edit] Births

• David Adjaye

[edit] Deaths