1953 in architecture

• Gordon Ryder and Peter Yates form an architectural practice based in Newcastle upon Tyne in the north of England. ==Buildings and structures completed==

, Runnymede • Main building of Moscow State University, the tallest building in Europe (1953–1990) and the tallest educational building in the world (1953–present), designed by Lev Rudnev. • St Crispin's School, Wokingham, Berkshire, England, designed by the U.K. Ministry of Education. • YMCA Indian Student Hostel, Fitzrovia, London, designed by Ralph Tubbs. • Housing at Chandigarh, Punjab (India), designed by Le Corbusier in collaboration with Pierre Jeanneret, Jane Drew, Maxwell Fry, B. V. Doshi and others. • Mardyke Road (residential crescent), Harlow New Town, England, designed by Frederick Gibberd. • Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede, England, designed by Edward Maufe, dedicated October 17. • English Martyrs' Church, Wallasey, designed by F. X. Velarde, dedicated August 31. • New building for Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, the first major commission for Louis Kahn, opened November. • Lijnbaan pedestrianised shopping street in Rotterdam, designed by Jo van den Broek and Jacob B. Bakema. ==Awards==

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Frank Lloyd Wright. • AIA Gold Medal – William Adams Delano. • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Le Corbusier. • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Olivier-Clément Cacoub. ==Publications==

• Ivan Chtcheglov (as Gilles Ivain) – Formulaire pour un urbanisme nouveau. • John Summerson – Architecture in Britain, 1530–1830. ==Births==

• March 26 - Phil Freelon, American architect (Died. 2019) • November 7 – Peter Janesch, Hungarian architect • December 18 – David Chipperfield, English architect • Sheila O'Donnell, Irish architect • Richard Weston, English architect ==Deaths==

• May 31 – Vladimir Tatlin, Soviet Russian architect (born 1885) • August 17 – Sir Banister Fletcher, English architectural historian (born 1866) • September 15 – Erich Mendelsohn, German-born architect (born 1887) • December 13 – Ad van der Steur, Dutch architect (born 1893) ==References==