2022 in architecture

The year 2022 in architecture is expected to involve some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events[]

Kharkiv Regional State Administration building damaged by Russian shelling on 1 March 2022

• 1 March - Russian shelling of Freedom Square in Kharkiv severely damages the Regional State Administration Building and more heritage listed buildings.^[1]
• 16 March - Shelling in Mariupol destroys Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre.^[2]

Buildings and structures[]

• United Arab Emirates - The Museum of the Future designed by Killa Design architecture studio and engineered by Buro Happold opens to the public on February 25 in Dubai.^[3]

Awards[]

• AIA Gold Medal – Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa
• Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture – Rob Krier
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – B. V. Doshi
• Pritzker Architecture Prize – Diébédo Francis Kéré

Upcoming

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

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.^[4]

Deaths[]

• 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)

See also[]

• Timeline of architecture

References[]