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1920 in architecture

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The year 1920 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

  • Construction of Welwyn Garden City in England begins with Louis de Soissons as architect and town planner.
  • Edith Hughes establishes her own architectural practice, in Glasgow, the first British woman to do so.
  • In the first issue of the Purist art magazine L' Esprit Nouveau co-founded by him, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris adopts the pseudonym Le Corbusier.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

  • November 11 – The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London, designed by Edwin Lutyens.

Buildings completed

  • Ajuria Enea, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, designed by Alfredo Baeschlin.
  • Coliseum Theatre (Kuala Lumpur), Malaysia.
  • Hartford Times Building, Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Donn Barber
  • Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
  • Oak Tower, Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
  • Oslo Synagogue, Norway.
  • Teatro Municipal (Lima), Peru.
  • Bankstown Reservoir in Sydney, Australia

Awards

  • AIA Gold Medal – Egerton Swartwout
  • Olympic silver medal – Holger Sinding-Larsen of Norway for Project for a gymnastics school (no other medals awarded)
  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Charles Louis Girault
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Michel Roux-Spitz

Births

  • January 23 – Gottfried Böhm, German architect (died 2021)
  • July 16 – Peter Yates, English architect (died 1982)
  • August 21 – Vincent Scully, American architectural historian (died 2017)
  • September 2 – Romaldo Giurgola, Italian-American-Australian academic architect, professor and author (died 2016)
  • October 21 – William Whitfield, English architect (died 2019)
  • December 28 – Bruce McCarty, American architect (died 2013)

Deaths

  • March 12 – Hermann Eggert, German architect (born 1888)
  • May 17 – Jean-Louis Pascal, academic French architect (born 1837)
  • May 18 – Frank Matcham, English theatrical architect and designer (born 1854)
  • July 31 – Thomas Tryon, American architect (born 1859)
  • October 22 – Ruggero Berlam, Italian architect (born 1854)

References

References

  1. Holland and Hannen and Cubitts Ltd.. (1920). "Cubitts: its inception and development". Holland & Hannen and Cubitts Ltd..
  2. "Hartford Times Building (1920)".
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