2001 in architecture - Definition and Overview

See also: 2000 in architecture, other events of 2001, 2002 in architecture and the architecture timeline.

Buildings

• May 4 - Milwaukee Art Museum, designed by Santiago Calatrava opens.
• Gehry Tower in Hanover, Germany, designed by Frank Gehry is opened.
• Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, designed by Daniel Libeskind is completed.
• World Trade Center in New York is destroyed in an attack, on September 11

Awards

• Pritzker Prize - Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
• Stirling Prize - Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Magna Centre

Births

Deaths

• January 11 - Denys Lasdun (born 1914)