1963 in architecture

• October 28 – Work begins on demolition of Pennsylvania Station (New York City), surface buildings designed by McKim, Mead and White in 1910, a key influence on the historic preservation movement.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1963/10/29/archives/demolition-starts-at-penn-station-architects-picket-penn-station.html|title=Demolition Starts At Penn Station; Architects Picket; Penn Station Demolition Begun; 6 Architects Call Act a 'Shame'|last=Tolchin|first=Martin|date=1963-10-29|website=The New York Times|access-date=2018-05-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180523100724/https://www.nytimes.com/1963/10/29/archives/demolition-starts-at-penn-station-architects-picket-penn-station.html|archive-date=2018-05-23|url-status=live}}
• Work begins on the Ostankino Tower, designed by Nikolai Nikitin.
• Work begins on the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, designed by Denys Lasdun.
• Team 4 architectural practice established by Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and their respective wives.
• The avant-garde architectural collective Archigram stages the Living Cities exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

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• February – Springs Mills Building on Manhattan, New York, United States, designed by Harrison & Abramovitz.
• March 7 – MetLife Building on Manhattan, New York, United States, designed by Richard Roth.
• June 22 – Arrábida Bridge, Douro river, Portugal, designed by Edgar Cardoso.
• October 15 – Berliner Philharmonie concert hall, designed by Hans Scharoun.
• November – Phoenix Life Insurance Company Building in Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Max Abramovitz.

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• St John the Baptist's Church, Ermine, Lincoln, Lincoln, England, designed by Sam Scorer.
• Großer Sendesaal (concert hall) of Hanover Broadcast Station in West Germany, designed by Dieter Oesterlen.
• Bankside Power Station in London, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. (Adaptive reuse as the Tate Modern art museum in 2000.)
• Vickers Tower on Millbank in London, designed by Ronald Ward and Partners.
• Alexander Fleming House, Blocks A-C, at Elephant and Castle in London, designed by Ernő Goldfinger.
• Darwin Building, Royal College of Art, South Kensington, London, designed by H. T. and Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown, Sir Hugh Casson and Robert Goodden.
• University of Leicester Engineering Building, England, designed by James Stirling and James Gowan.{{cite book|first=Elain|last=Harwood|title=England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings|edition=rev.|location=London|publisher=Batsford|year=2003|isbn=0-7134-8818-2}}
• Alpha House, Coventry, England, built, a 17-storey residential tower block, the world's first multi-storey building erected by the "jack block" system devised by Felix Adler of Richard Costain (Construction) Ltd.{{cite book|first=Roger|last=Cragg|title=Civil Engineering Heritage – West Midlands|location=Andover|publisher=Phillimore|year=2010|isbn=978-1-86077-572-7|page=130}}
• Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.{{cite web |title=About the Building |url=https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/about-building |website=Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |publisher=Yale University |accessdate=21 September 2018}}
• Core buildings of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, designed by Denys Lasdun.
• Salk Institute, by Louis I. Kahn, at La Jolla, California.
• Exxon Building in Houston, Texas.
• Hotel Ivoire, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, designed by Moshe Mayer.
• Jamaraat Bridge, Mina, Saudi Arabia.
• Kobe Port Tower in Kobe, Japan.
• Bunshaft Residence (sometimes called the Travertine House) in East Hampton, New York: designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft for himself and his wife, and his only residential project.
• Sadovnichesky Bridge, Vodootvodny Canal, Moscow.

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• AIA Gold Medal – Alvar Aalto
• RAIA Gold Medal – Arthur Stephenson
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – William Holford
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Jean-Louis Girodet

• John Summerson – The Classical Language of Architecture (BBC).

• October 16 – Filipe Oliveira Dias, Portuguese architect and writer
• October 17 – Alejandro Zaera Polo, Spanish architect and teacher
• June 24 – Benedetta Tagliabue, Italian architect based in Barcelona

• February 11 – Elmar Lohk, Estonian architect (born 1901)
• February 21 – Philip Hepworth, English architect (born 1890)
• March 17 – Adalberto Libera, Italian modernist architect (born 1903)
• March 22 – Herbert James Rowse, English architect working in Liverpool (born 1887)
• April 5 – J. J. P. Oud, Dutch architect (born 1890)
• April 23 – Adrian Gilbert Scott, English church architect, grandson of Sir George Gilbert Scott (born 1901)

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