2022 in architecture

Events

• 1 March - Russian shelling of Freedom Square in Kharkiv severely damages the Regional State Administration Building and more heritage listed buildings.
• 16 March - Shelling in Mariupol destroys Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre.
• 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

• The Statue of Belief, depicting Shiva opens on 29 October in Rajasthan.

• Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez in Barcelona, designed by Suma Arquitectura, is formally inaugurated on 28 May.

• Taipei Performing Arts Center, designed by Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten at Office for Metropolitan Architecture, opens officially on 7 August.

• 1915 Çanakkale Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world, is completed.

• The Museum of the Future designed by Killa Design architecture studio and engineered by Buro Happold opened to public on 22 February in Dubai.

• 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

• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture –
• Aga Khan Award for Architecture –

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.

Deaths

• January 11 - Eberhard Zeidler, 95, German-born Canadian architect
• January 14 - Ricardo Bofill, 82, Spanish architect
• March 17 - Christopher Alexander, 85, Austrian born British-American architect and design theorist
• March 24 - John Andrews, 88, Australian architect
• August 9 - Miles Warren, 93, New Zealand architect
• August 16
• * Mark Girouard, 90, English architectural writer and historian
• * John Rauch, 91, American architect
• August 23 - José Vivas, 94, Venezuelan architect
• September 9 - James Polshek, 92, American architect
• September 17 - Vlado Milunić, 81, Croatian-Czech architect
• October 14 - Étienne Gaboury, 92, Canadian architect
• October 20 - Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, 98, British-born Canadian architect and city planner
• November 10 - Agustín Hernández Navarro, 98, Mexican architect
• December 29 - Arata Isozaki, 91, Japanese architect, Pritzker Prize winner