1959 in architecture

1959 in architecture
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The year 1959 in architecture involved some significant events.

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1 Buildings
2 Awards
3 Births
4 Deaths

Buildings

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is completed.
The Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Alabama) by Warren, Knight & Davis is opened.
The Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Australia is completed.

Awards

AIA Gold Medal - Walter Gropius.
Royal Gold Medal - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

October 10 - Maya Lin

Deaths

9 April - Frank Lloyd Wright (born 1867)

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