- 1951 in architecture
The year 1951 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
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May 3 -Royal Festival Hall inLondon , designed byLeslie Martin ,Peter Moro andRobert Matthew is opened.
* TheLansbury Estate inPoplar, London is begun as a housing showcase.
* TheJK Building inBelo Horizonte, Brazil is designed byOscar Niemeyer .
*Farnsworth House is completed byLudwig Mies van der Rohe inPlano, Illinois ,USA .
* The antenna of theEmpire State Building is added to the building.Events
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Nikolaus Pevsner published the first in his "Buildings of England " series, the volume onNottinghamshire .Awards
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AIA Gold Medal -Bernard Ralph Maybeck .
*Royal Gold Medal -Vincent Harris .
*Grand Prix de Rome , architecture: (unknown).Births
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July 28 -Santiago Calatrava Deaths
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Arthur Joseph Davis (born 1878)
*William Alexander Harvey (born 1874)
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