1983 in architecture

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• April 19 – Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex, Caracas, Venezuela, designed by Tomás Lugo Marcano, Jesús Sandoval and Dietrich Kunckel completed.
• May 1 – Church of the Holy Mother of God (Aleppo), Syria.
• October 15 – The Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta.
• October 21 – The Burrell Collection Building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, designed by Barry Gasson.

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• The Conoco-Phillips Building in Anchorage, Alaska.
• The Alma-Ata Tower in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
• Western Canadian Place in Calgary, Alberta
• Henningsvær Bridges, Norway.{{cite book|url=http://www.lotsberg.net/data/norway/bru-2.html|chapter=Road Viaducts & Bridges in Norway (499-200 m)|editor-last=Merzagora|editor-first=Eugenio A.|title=Norske bruer og viadukter|accessdate=2012-07-16|archive-date=2020-07-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719234957/http://www.lotsberg.net/data/norway/bru-2.html|url-status=dead}}
• Wells Fargo Bank Plaza in Houston, Texas.
• Williams Tower/ Transco Tower in Houston, Texas.
• ARCO Tower in Dallas, Texas.
• The Mellon Bank Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Trump Tower in New York City.
• One Cleveland Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
• Manulife Place in Edmonton, Alberta
• Miami Center in Miami, Florida.
• High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, designed by Richard Meier,
• Pasilan linkkitorni tower, Helsinki, Finland.{{cite web|url=http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=292|title=Pasilan linkkitorni|work=SkyscraperPage.com |accessdate=2007-09-14}}
• Slovak Radio Building in Bratislava, designed by Štefan Svetko, Štefan Ďurkovič and Barnabáš Kissling.
• Slovak National Archives in Bratislava, designed by Vladimir Dedeček.
• Sainsbury Building, Worcester College, Oxford, England, designed by Richard MacCormac.
• Forestry department offices (later Daugavkrasti Hotel), Jēkabpils, Latvia, designed by Vanda Baulina.
• Les Espaces d’Abraxas social housing complex, Marne-la-Vallée, France, designed by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura.

• Baghdad State Mosque (Iraq), designed by Rasem Badran; never built.{{cite web|title=Baghdad State Mosque (Design)|url=https://www.archnet.org/sites/14897|work=Archnet|accessdate=2023-11-25}}

• Aga Khan Award for Architecture – Zlatko Ugljen, for Šerefudin's White Mosque, built in Visoko.
• AIA Gold Medal – Nathaniel Alexander Owings.
• Architecture Firm Award – Holabird & Root.
• Pritzker Prize – I. M. Pei.
• RAIA Gold Medal – Gilbert Nic and Ross Chisholm.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Norman Foster.
• Twenty-five Year Award – Price Tower.

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• January 29 – Piloo Mody, Indian architect and politician (born 1926)
• July 1 – Richard Buckminster Fuller, American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (born 1895)
• June 12 – Clemens Holzmeister, Austrian architect and stage designer (born 1886)
• August 18
• Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born historian of art and architecture, author of a series of county guides to English architecture (born 1902)
• Jan Zachwatowicz, Polish architect, architectural historian and restorer (born 1900){{cite encyclopedia|title=Zachwatowicz, Jan|encyclopedia=Internetowa encyklopedia PWN|url=http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=3999755|accessdate=2007-05-12|language=pl|date=|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607135614/http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=3999755|archivedate=2011-06-07|url-status=dead}}
• Giuseppe Samoná, Italian architect (born 1898)

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Category:20th-century architecture