1953 in architecture

• Gordon Ryder and Peter Yates form an architectural practice based in Newcastle upon Tyne in the north of England.

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• Main building of Moscow State University, the tallest building in Europe (1953–1990) and the tallest educational building in the world (1953–present), designed by Lev Rudnev.
• St Crispin's School, Wokingham, Berkshire, England, designed by the U.K. Ministry of Education.
• YMCA Indian Student Hostel, Fitzrovia, London, designed by Ralph Tubbs.{{cite web|url=http://www.c20society.org.uk/docs/building/granada.html|publisher=The Twentieth Century Society|title=Building of the Month|date=February 2005|accessdate=2006-07-08|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060925224104/http://www.c20society.org.uk/docs/building/granada.html|archivedate=2006-09-25}}
• Housing at Chandigarh, Punjab (India), designed by Le Corbusier in collaboration with Pierre Jeanneret, Jane Drew, Maxwell Fry, B. V. Doshi and others.
• Mardyke Road (residential crescent), Harlow New Town, England, designed by Frederick Gibberd.{{cite book|author=The Twentieth Century Society|title=100 Houses 100 Years|location=London|publisher=Batsford|year=2017|isbn=978-1-84994-437-3|chapter=1953}}
• Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede, England, designed by Edward Maufe, dedicated October 17.
• English Martyrs' Church, Wallasey, designed by F. X. Velarde, dedicated August 31.
• New building for Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, the first major commission for Louis Kahn, opened November.
• Lijnbaan pedestrianised shopping street in Rotterdam, designed by Jo van den Broek and Jacob B. Bakema.{{cite web|url=http://www.archined.nl/en/forum/lijnbaan-rip/|date=2007-01-18|first1=Michelle|last1=Provoost|first2=Wouter|last2=Vanstiphout|title=Lijnbaan R.I.P.|work=ArchiNed|accessdate=2011-08-03|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724145538/http://www.archined.nl/en/forum/lijnbaan-rip/|archivedate=2011-07-24|url-status=dead}}

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Frank Lloyd Wright.
• AIA Gold Medal – William Adams Delano.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Le Corbusier.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Olivier-Clément Cacoub.

• Ivan Chtcheglov (as Gilles Ivain) – Formulaire pour un urbanisme nouveau.
• John Summerson – Architecture in Britain, 1530–1830.

• March 26 - Phil Freelon, American architect (Died. 2019)
• November 7 – Peter Janesch, Hungarian architect
• December 18 – David Chipperfield, English architect
• Sheila O'Donnell, Irish architect
• Richard Weston, English architect

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• May 31 – Vladimir Tatlin, Soviet Russian architect (born 1885)
• August 17 – Sir Banister Fletcher, English architectural historian (born 1866)
• September 15 – Erich Mendelsohn, German-born architect (born 1887)
• December 13 – Ad van der Steur, Dutch architect (born 1893)

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