1983 in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• 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, Syria.
• October 15 – The Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta.
• October 21 – The Burrell Collection Building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, designed by Barry Gasson.

  Buildings completed

• The Conoco-Phillips Building in Anchorage, Alaska.
• The Alma-Ata Tower in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
• Western Canadian Place in Calgary, Alberta
• Henningsvær Bridges, Norway.
• 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.
• Slovak Radio Building in Bratislava, designed by Štefan Svetko, Štefan Ďurkovič and Barnabáš Kissling.
• Slovak National Archives in Bratislava, designed by Vladimir Dedeček.
• :File:Sainsbury Building.jpg|Sainsbury Building, Worcester College, Oxford, England, designed by Richard MacCormac.
• Forestry department offices, Jēkabpils, Latvia, designed by Vanda Baulina.
• Les Espaces d’Abraxas social housing complex, Marne-la-Vallée, France, designed by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura.

  Awards

• 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.

  Deaths

• January 29 – Piloo Mody, Indian architect and politician
• July 1 – Richard Buckminster Fuller, American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
• June 12 – Clemens Holzmeister, Austrian architect and stage designer
• August 18
• * Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born historian of art and architecture, author of a series of county guides to English architecture
• * Jan Zachwatowicz, Polish architect, architectural historian and restorer
• Giuseppe Samoná, Italian architect