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1942 in architecture

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The year 1942 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

  • April 25 – Marriage of English architects Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry in London.
  • May 30/31 – Bombing of Cologne in World War II: The first 1,000 bomber raid and associated fires destroy 3,330 non-residential buildings and make 13,000 families homeless; eleven of the twelve Romanesque churches of Cologne are damaged.
  • September – Alker Tripp publishes Town Planning and Road Traffic in England, advocating segregated roads.
  • An abridged version of the Athens Charter by Le Corbusier is published.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

  • October 10 – The Normandie Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, designed by engineer Félix Benítez Rexach and architect Raúl Reichard, is opened.
  • The National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, United States is completed.
  • Walthamstow Town Hall in London, designed by Philip Hepworth in 1932, is completed.
  • Wythenshawe Bus Garage in Manchester, England is completed.

Awards

  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – William Curtis Green.
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Raymond Gleize?

Births

  • January 19 – John Sheehy, American architect
  • February 1 – Tonny Zwollo, Dutch-born architect
  • March 23 – Fabio Reinhart, Swiss architect
  • September 15 – Ksenia Milicevic, Yugoslav-born French painter, architect and town planner
  • Patty Hopkins, born Patricia Wainwright, English architect
  • Roger Walker, New Zealand architect

Deaths

Blomfield in 1921
  • March 31 – Randall Wells, English Arts and Crafts architect (born 1877)
  • May 17 – Mārtiņš Nukša, Latvian architect and diplomat (born 1878; executed)
  • May 20 – Hector Guimard, French-born Art Nouveau architect (born 1867)
  • May 23 – C. R. Ashbee, English interior designer (born 1863)
  • June 25 – Arthur Anderson, Australian architect (born 1868)
  • July 24 – Sir Edwin Cooper, English architect (born 1874)
  • September 22 – Ralph Adams Cram, American collegiate and ecclesiastical architect (born 1863)
  • December 8 – Albert Kahn, German American industrial architect (born 1869)
  • December 13 – Robert Robinson Taylor, first accredited African-American architect (born 1868)
  • December 27 – Reginald Blomfield, English architect (born 1856)
  • Ernest George Trobridge, British architect (born 1884)

References

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