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Brunswick Centre in London , designed by Patrick Hodgkinson is completed.

Munich Olympic Arena , designed by Gunter Behnisch for the 1972 Summer Olympics is completed.

Brion-Vega Cemetery , San Vito d'Alvitole, Italy by Carlo Scarpa is completed.

Central Beheer , Apeldoorn , the Netherlands by Hermann Hertzberger is completed.

Phillips Exeter Academy Library , Exeter, New Hampshire by Louis Kahn is completed.

Kimball Art Museum , Fort Worth, Texas by Louis Kahn is completed.

Commerce Court West in Toronto , Ontario , Canada is completed.

Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco , California , United States is completed.

Fernmeldeturm Kiel in Kiel , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany is completed.

One Penn Plaza in New York City , New York , United States is completed.

McGraw-Hill Building in Manhattan , New York , United States is completed and opened.

The Fernmeldeturm Frauenkopf (Stuttgarter Fernmeldeturm) in Stuttgart , Germany is completed.

The Wells Fargo Center in Portland, Oregon , United States is opened.

The Camlica TV Tower in Istanbul , Turkey is completed.

The Dorint Hotel Tower in Augsburg , Germany is completed and opened.

The Catedral De Maringá in Maringá , Parana , Brazil is completed and is one of the tallest churches/ catherdrals in the world.

EVENTS

Pietro Belluschi receives the Gold Medal from the American Institute Of Architects (AIA).

Louis Kahn receives the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute Of British Architects (RIBA).

'' Learning From Las Vegas '' by Robert Venturi , Steven Izenour and Denise Scott Brown is published.

India passes the ''Architects Act'' governing the professional practice of architecture in India.

Yale University designates the Yale School of Architecture as a separate professional school.

Demolition begins ( March 16 ) of the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project designed by Minoru Yamasaki in St. Louis, Missouri . Film from the demolition is featured in the 1983 Godfrey Reggio movie Koyaanisqatsi .

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DEATHS

Hans Scharoun ( 1893 - 1972 )