2022 in architecture

• 1 March - Russian shelling of Freedom Square in Kharkiv severely damages the Regional State Administration Building and more heritage listed buildings.Ravenscroft, T (2022) [https://www.dezeen.com/2022/03/10/ukraine-invasion-barbaric-destruction-architectural-heritage/ Ukraine invasion leading to "barbaric destruction of architectural heritage"], dezeen 10 March
• 16 March - Shelling in Mariupol destroys Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre.Tondo, L. & Kishiw, I. (2022) [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/16/mariupol-ukraine-russia-seized-hospital "Mariupol: Russia accused of bombing theatre and swimming pool sheltering civilians"], in The Guardian.
• 8 October - Crimean Bridge between Crimea and Russia, the longest bridge in Europe, the road section of the bridge collapsed due to explosion. {{Cite web |date=2022-10-08 |title=Three killed as huge explosion causes key Crimea-Russia road bridge to collapse – as it happened |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/oct/08/russia-ukraine-war-live-news-fire-engulfs-part-of-kerch-bridge-between-crimea-and-russia |access-date=2022-11-15 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}

{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 2022}}

;Spain

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

;Taiwan

• Taipei Performing Arts Center, designed by Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten at Office for Metropolitan Architecture, opens officially on 7 August.{{cite web|title=New Taipei Performing Arts Center opens in Taiwan|url=https://www.classical-music.com/features/articles/new-taipei-performing-arts-center-opens-in-taiwan/|work=Classical Music|publisher=BBC|date=2022-08-09|accessdate=2022-08-17|first=Hannah|last=Nepilova}}

;Turkey

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

; United Arab Emirates

File:Museum of the future, Dubai.jpeg

• The Museum of the Future designed by Killa Design architecture studio and engineered by Buro Happold opened to public on 22 February in Dubai.{{Cite web|url=https://www.afar.com/magazine/the-museum-of-the-future-opens-in-dubai|title=Dubai's Museum of the Future is Now Open|date=25 February 2022 }}

;India

File:Shiva statue at-Nathdwara India.jpg in Rajasthan]]

• The Statue of Belief (Vishwas Swaroopam), depicting Shiva opens on 29 October in Rajasthan.

• 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{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63244673 |title=Riba Stirling Prize: Cambridge University library wins top architecture award |date=13 October 2022 |work=BBC News |access-date=18 October 2024}}

;Upcoming

• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – (announced end April)
• Aga Khan Award for Architecture – (announced autumn)

{{See also|Category:Architecture museums}}

• 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.MoMA: [https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5439 "The Project of Independence"], retrieved 17 March 2022

• January 11 - Eberhard Zeidler, 95, German-born Canadian architect (Eaton Centre) (b. 1926)
• January 14 - Ricardo Bofill, 82, Spanish architect (b. 1939)
• March 17 - Christopher Alexander, 85, Austrian born British-American architect and design theorist (b. 1936)
• March 24 - John Andrews, 88, Australian architect (b. 1933){{Cite web |date=2022-03-28 |title=Vale John Andrews AO |url=https://www.architecture.com.au/archives/news_media_articles/vale-john-andrews-ao |access-date=2023-04-18 |website=Australian Institute of Architects}}
• August 9 - Miles Warren, 93, New Zealand architect (b. 1929)
• August 16
• Mark Girouard, 90, English architectural writer and historian (b. 1931){{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/08/17/mark-girouard-author-classic-works-architecture-social-history/|title=Mark Girouard, author of classic works on architecture and social history including Life in the English Country House – Obituary|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=2022-08-17}} {{subscription required}}
• John Rauch, 91, American architect (b. 1930){{cite news |url=https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/john-rauch-obituary-architect-philadelphia-20220823.html |title=John K. Rauch, celebrated architect and cofounder of Venturi & Rauch, has died at 91 |first=Gary |last=Miles |date=August 24, 2022 |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |accessdate= February 23, 2023}}
• August 23 - José Vivas, 94, Venezuelan architect (b. 1928)
• September 9 - James Polshek, 92, American architect (Clinton Presidential Center, the Brooklyn Museum) (b. 1930)
• September 17 - Vlado Milunić, 81, Croatian-Czech architect (Dancing House) (b. 1941)
• October 14 - Étienne Gaboury, 92, Canadian architect (Royal Canadian Mint- Winnipeg, Saint Boniface Cathedral, Esplanade Riel) (b. 1930)
• October 20 - Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, 98, British-born Canadian architect and city planner (Expo 67) (b. 1923)
• November 10 - Agustín Hernández Navarro, 98, Mexican architect (b. 1924)
• December 29 - Arata Isozaki, 91, Japanese architect (Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, MOCA, Nagi Museum Of Contemporary Art), Pritzker Prize winner (2019) (b. 1931)

• Timeline of architecture

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