1956 in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• February – Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
• February 4 – Theater Münster in Germany, designed by Werner Ruhnau, Harald Deilmann, Max von Hausen and Ortwin Rave.
• April 17 – Council House, Bristol, England, UK, designed by Vincent Harris.
• April 30 – Torre Latinoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico, designed by Augusto H. Alvarez.
• July 31 – Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, USSR.

Buildings completed

• Capitol Records Building in Hollywood, California, the world's first round office building, designed by architect Welton Becket.
• S. R. Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, United States, designed by the current head of IIT's architecture department Mies van der Rohe.
• General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, United States, designed by Eero Saarinen.
• Latvian Academy of Sciences, Riga, Latvia, designed by Lev Rudnev.
• Maisons Jaoul in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, designed by Le Corbusier in 1937.
• Mausoleum of Genghis Khan completed as a cenotaph in Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China.
• Vidhana Soudha, completed in Bangalore, India, designed by Kengal Hanumanthaiah.
• Bank of England Printing Works at Loughton, designed by Howard Robertson.
• National Pensions Institute, Helsinki, Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto.
• Rødovre Town Hall, Denmark, designed by Arne Jacobsen.
• St Mark's Church, Björkhagen, Stockholm, Sweden, designed by Sigurd Lewerentz.
• Faculty of Letters building at the University of Reading, England, UK, designed by Howard Robertson.
• Rothschild estate cottages, Poplar Meadow, Rushbrooke, Suffolk, England, UK, designed by John Weeks.
• H. J. Lovink Pumping Station on the Flevopolder in the Netherlands, designed by Dirk Roosenburg.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal – Clarence S. Stein.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Michel Folliasson.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Walter Gropius.

Births

• January 15 – Vitaly Kaloyev, Russian architect and politician
• October 29 – Kazuyo Sejima, Japanese architect
• November 25 – Stefano Boeri, Italian architect and urban planner
• November – Teresa Borsuk, British architect

Deaths

• February 25 – Philip Tilden, English domestic architect
• May 7 – Josef Hoffmann, Austrian architect and designer
• July 21 – Lionel Bailey Budden, English architect and academic
• September 8 – Oskar Kaufmann, Hungarian-Jewish architect known for his works in Berlin
• November 20 – Joseph Emberton, English modernist architect
• December 21 – Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Catalan Spanish Modernista architect known for his works in Barcelona