The year 1978 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• Gehry House by Frank Gehry in Santa Monica, California.
• Sunshine 60 in Tokyo, Japan is completed.
• Reunion Tower in Dallas, Texas is completed.
• United Nations City in Vienna, Austria is completed.
• Comodoro Rivadavia Cathedral in Argentina is dedicated.
• London Borough of Camden low-rise high-density social housing schemes completed on Alexandra Road Estate (designed by Neave Brown in 1968) and Branch Hill (by Gordon Benson and Alan Forsyth).^[1]
• Commercial Street Housing in Perth, Scotland, designed by James Parr & Partners.^[2]
• Angoori Bagh Housing in Pakistan, designed by Yasmeen Lari, completed.
• Sanctuary of Meritxell, Andorra, designed by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, completed.
• Sheep Field Barn (sculpture gallery for Henry Moore Foundation), Perry Green, Hertfordshire, England, designed by Hawkins\Brown.

Events

• Herzog & de Meuron Architekten set up in Basel.
• Manfredi Nicoletti publishes L'ecosistema urbano (The Urban ecosystem) - a term that he himself has coined.
• Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter publish Collage City.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal – Philip Johnson
• Alvar Aalto Medal – James Stirling (architect)
• Architecture Firm Award – Harry Weese & Associates
• Grand prix national de l'architecture – Jean Renaudie
• RAIA Gold Medal – Mervyn Parry
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Jørn Utzon
• Twenty-five Year Award – Eames House

Births

• Brian James Walker was born in Leith, Edinburgh on February. 17, 1978.

Deaths

• January 27 – Thomas Sharp, English urban planner (born 1901)
• March 1 – Léon Azéma, French architect (born 1888)
• April 9 – Clough Williams-Ellis, British architect (born 1883)
• August 21 – Charles Eames, American designer (born 1907)
• September 6 – Jo van den Broek, Dutch architect (born 1898)
• November 4 – Alfred Albini, Croatian architect and urban planner (born 1896)
• November 27 – Carlo Scarpa, Italian architect and designer (born 1906)