2022 in architecture

The year 2022 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events 1 March - Russian shelling of Freedom Square in Kharkiv severely damages the Regional State Administration Building and more heritage listed buildings.Ravenscroft, T (2022) Ukraine invasion leading to "barbaric destruction of architectural heritage", dezeen 10 March 16 March - Shelling in Mariupol destroys Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre.Tondo, L. & Kishiw, I. (2022) "Mariupol: Russia accused of bombing theatre and swimming pool sheltering civilians", in The Guardian. 8 October - Crimean Bridge between Crimea and Russia, the longest bridge in Europe, the road section of the bridge collapsed due to explosion.

Buildings and structures

India The Statue of Belief (Vishwas Swaroopam), depicting Shiva opens on 29 October in Rajasthan. Spain Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez in Barcelona, designed by Suma Arquitectura, is formally inaugurated on 28 May. Taiwan Taipei Performing Arts Center, designed by Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten at Office for Metropolitan Architecture, opens officially on 7 August. Turkey 1915 Çanakkale Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world, is completed. United Arab Emirates

The Museum of the Future designed by Killa Design architecture studio and engineered by Buro Happold opened to public on 22 February in Dubai. United States The Mies Building for the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University Bloomington is completed based largely on a 1952 design by Mies van der Rohe.

Awards AIA Gold Medal – Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture – Rob Krier Pritzker Architecture Prize – Diébédo Francis Kéré RIBA Royal Gold Medal – B. V. Doshi RAIA Gold Medal – Sean Godsell Stirling Prize – The New Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge

Upcoming European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – (announced end April) Aga Khan Award for Architecture – (announced autumn)

Exhibitions

6 Feb - 2 July: MoMA New York: "The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947–1985", curated by Martino Stierli and Anoma Pieris.MoMA: "The Project of Independence", retrieved 17 March 2022

Deaths January 11 - Eberhard Zeidler, 95, German-born Canadian architect (Eaton Centre) (b. 1926) January 14 - Ricardo Bofill, 82, Spanish architect (b. 1939) March 17 - Christopher Alexander, 85, Austrian born British-American architect and design theorist (b. 1936) March 24 - John Andrews, 88, Australian architect (b. 1933) August 9 - Miles Warren, 93, New Zealand architect (b. 1929) August 16 Mark Girouard, 90, English architectural writer and historian (b. 1931) John Rauch, 91, American architect (b. 1930) August 23 - José Vivas, 94, Venezuelan architect (b. 1928) September 9 - James Polshek, 92, American architect (Clinton Presidential Center, the Brooklyn Museum) (b. 1930) September 17 - Vlado Milunić, 81, Croatian-Czech architect (Dancing House) (b. 1941) October 14 - Étienne Gaboury, 92, Canadian architect (Royal Canadian Mint- Winnipeg, Saint Boniface Cathedral, Esplanade Riel) (b. 1930) October 20 - Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, 98, British-born Canadian architect and city planner (Expo 67) (b. 1923) November 10 - Agustín Hernández Navarro, 98, Mexican architect (b. 1924) December 29 - Arata Isozaki, 91, Japanese architect (Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, MOCA, Nagi Museum Of Contemporary Art), Pritzker Prize winner (2019) (b. 1931)

See also Timeline of architecture

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