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The year 1954 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

  • June 29 – Buckminster Fuller patents his geodesic dome design, later expressed in his Dymaxion House
  • November – Postwar United Kingdom government limitations on housebuilding are lifted
  • Autumn – Inauguration of the city district of Vällingby, in Stockholm, Sweden, planned by Sven Markelius
  • date unknown
  • Ciudad Universitaria (University City), UNAM's main campus in Mexico City, designed by Mario Pani and Enrique del Moral
  • Pruitt–Igoe housing project in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, first occupied

Buildings completed

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  • date unknown
  • Hunstanton Secondary Modern School, Hunstanton, Norfolk, England, designed by Peter and Alison Smithson, is completed
  • St Mary and St Joseph Roman Catholic Church on the Lansbury Estate in Poplar, East London, designed by Adrian Gilbert Scott, is completed
  • Goddard House, 22 Avenue Road, Stoneygate, Leicester, England, designed by Fello Atkinson and Brenda Walker of James Cubitt & Partners
  • Martin's (private house), Toys Hill, Brasted, Kent, England, designed by Powell and Moya, is completed
  • October 12 – Keith Griffiths, Welsh-born architect
  • January 6 – Hans Robert Hiegel, German architect
  • date unknown – Kengo Kuma, Japanese architect
  • date unknown – Salma Samar Damluji, Iraqi-British architect, professor and author

Deaths

  • February 25 – Auguste Perret, French architect, pioneer of reinforced concrete (born 1874)
  • March 28 – Kaare Klint, Danish architect and furniture designer (born 1888)
  • December 12 – Alker Tripp, English town planner (born 1883)
  • date unknown – Salvador Valeri i Pupurull, Catalan architect (born 1873)

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