1983 in architecture

List of years in architecture (table)
... 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 ... 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 ... 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 ...
Buildings and structures Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Philosophy Science +...

The year 1983 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings opened

• May 1 - Church of the Holy Mother of God (Aleppo), Syria.

Buildings completed

• The Conoco-Phillips Building in Anchorage, AK, United States.
• The Alma-Ata Tower in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
• Henningsvær Bridges, Norway..
• Wells Fargo Bank Plaza in Houston, Texas, United States.
• Williams Tower/ Transco Tower in Houston, Texas, United States.
• ARCO Tower in Dallas, Texas, USA.
• The Mellon Bank Center in Philadelphia, United States.
• Trump Tower in New York, United States.
• Pasilan linkkitorni in Helsinki, Finland.
• One Cleveland Center in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
• Miami Center, in Miami, Florida, USA.
• Pasilan linkkitorni tower, Helsinki, Finland.
• The Burrell Collection Building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Nathaniel Alexander Owings.
• Architecture Firm Award - Holabird & Root.
• Pritzker Prize - I. M. Pei.
• RAIA Gold Medal - Gilbert Nic and Ross Chisholm.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal - Norman Foster.
• Twenty-five Year Award - Price Tower.

Deaths

• January 29 - Piloo Mody, Indian architect and politician (born 1926)
• July 1 - Richard Buckminster Fuller, American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (born 1895)
• June 12 - Clemens Holzmeister, Austrian architect and stage designer (born 1886)
• August 18
  • Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born historian of art and architecture, author of a series of county guides to English architecture (born 1902)
  • Jan Zachwatowicz, Polish architect, architectural historian and restorer (born 1900)