1955 in architecture

Events

• June – Outrage, a special issue of Architectural Review condemning the areas of British cities failed by urban planning, establishes the reputation of Ian Nairn as an architectural critic.
• December – Reyner Banham introduces the term "New Brutalism" into English print, writing in Architectural Review.
• Chinese American architect I. M. Pei establishes the architectural practice I. M. Pei & Associates with Eason H. Leonard and Henry N. Cobb in New York City.
• German architect Josef Bieling establishes the architectural practice Architekturbüro Josef Bieling in his hometown Kassel.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• June 25 – Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France, designed by Le Corbusier, is dedicated.
• July 22 – Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, the tallest building in Poland and the second tallest in Europe, designed by Lev Rudnev.
• August – Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Japan, designed by Kenzō Tange.

Buildings completed

• February – Bavinger House in Norman, Oklahoma, United States, the best-known building designed by Bruce Goff.
• MIT Chapel and Kresge Auditorium at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, designed by Eero Saarinen.
• Chapel of Trinity College, Toronto, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott.
• Dominus Flevit Church, Jerusalem, designed by Antonio Barluzzi.
• Restoration following bomb damage at Lambeth Palace in London, by Seely & Paget.
• Reconstructed Kinkaku-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan.
• Chandigarh High Court, Chandigarh Capitol Complex, India, designed by Le Corbusier.
• Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta.
• Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton, Alberta.
• Punta La Entallada Lighthouse on Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, designed by Carlos Alcon.
• Fundació Pilar y Joan Miró in Palma, Majorca, designed by Josep Lluís Sert.
• Tate & Lyle sugar silo, Liverpool, England.
• Casa Antonio Gálvez, Mexico City, designed by Luis Barragán.
• House Fox, Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa, designed by Revel Fox.
• Houses for self at 7 Gibraltar Hill and for E. W. Scorer, both in Lincoln, England, designed by Sam Scorer.
• House for John Womersley at Farnley Tyas, Yorkshire, England, designed by Peter Womersley.
• "Hermit's Castle", Achmelvich, Scotland, designed by David Scott.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal – Willem Marinus Dudok.
• [Royal Institute of British people|British Architects|RIBA] Royal Gold Medal – John Murray Easton.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Ngô Viết Thụ.

Births

• February 12 – Enric Miralles, Spanish Catalan architect
• April 14 – Robert Couturier, French architect and interior designer, designer of Cuixmala
• July 2 – Francine Houben, Dutch architect
• August 2 – Anne Lacaton, French architect
• November 17 – Amanda Levete, British architectdate unknown
• * Miroslav Grčev, Macedonian architect and graphic designer
• * Alan Powers, British modern architecture and design historian

Deaths

• February 7 – Carl Rubin, Galician-born Israeli International Style architect
• April 16 – George Howe, American International Style architect and educator
• August 6 – Dominikus Böhm, German church architect
• November 29 – Rene Paul Chambellan, American architectural sculptor