1952 in architecture
The year 1952 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- April – Stockwell Garage, designed by Adie, Button and Partners, with engineer A. E. Beer, is opened by London Transport.
- December 15 – The Sands Hotel, designed by Wayne McAllister, is opened on the Las Vegas Strip (demolished 30 June 1996).
- Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects, completed in the Brush Park section of Detroit, Michigan.
- Edificio Miguel E. Abed completed in Mexico City using the latest technology for earthquake engineering.
- Kotelnicheskaya Embankment apartments completed in the central Tagansky District in Moscow, and one of the "Seven Sisters".
- Lever House, designed by Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, is completed at 390 Park Avenue in New York City.
- Liljestrand House in Honolulu, Hawaii, designed by Vladimir Ossipoff, is completed.
- Utzon's House in Hellebæk (Denmark), designed by Jørn Utzon for himself, is built.
- Säynätsalo Town Hall in Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto, is completed.
- Unité d'Habitation in Marseille, designed by Le Corbusier, is completed.
- Pedregulho Housing Complex in Rio de Janeiro, designed by Affonso Eduardo Reidy, is inaugurated.
- United Nations Secretariat Building on Manhattan, designed by France's Le Corbusier and Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, is completed.
- Dorton Arena ("Paraboleum"), Raleigh, North Carolina, designed by Matthew Nowicki (died 1950), is built.
Awards
Births
- February 15 – Marco Piva, Italian
- July 25 – Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese
- December 15 – David Marks, British (d. 2017)
- Shelley McNamara, Irish
Deaths
- December 26 – Robert Atkinson, English (born 1883)