1918 in architecture
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The year 1918 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
- Hallidie Building is built in San Francisco. Designed by Willis Polk. Credited as the first glass curtain wall building.
- D. L. James House is built in Carmel Highlands, California. Designed by Greene and Greene in an Arts and crafts style.
- Police Headquarters are built in Copenhagen, Denmark. Designed by Hack Kampmann in a Neoclassical style.
- Our Lady of the Victories Basilica in Melbourne, Australia is completed.
- Newman College in Melbourne, Australia designed by Walter Burley Griffin, is completed.
- The Chapel of St. James, of the Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago, designed by Zachary Taylor Davis, in the French Gothic style, is completed.
- Stockholm Library, designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund is built in Stockholm, Sweden in a Mannerist early modern style.
- The Woodland Chapel is built in Stockholm, Sweden. Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund.
Events
- November 3 – Baroque Marian column in Prague, the Czech Republic, destroyed by nationalists. (Built 1650)
- Arbeitsrat für Kunst and Novembergruppe are formed in Germany.
Awards
- Royal Gold Medal - Ernest Newton.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).
Births
- April 10 - Jørn Utzon
- Benjamin C. Thompson (died 2002)
- Aldo van Eyck (died 1999)
Deaths
- April 11 - Otto Wagner (born 1841)