1910 in architecture

The year 1910 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• April 27 - Futurist poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti issues the manifesto Contro Venezia passatista ("Against Past-loving Venice") in the Piazza San Marco.
• Mary Colter is appointed full-time architect for the Fred Harvey Company in the United States.

Buildings opened

• Abdulla Shaig Puppet Theatre in Baku, Azerbaijan.
• Pennsylvania Station in New York, designed by McKim, Mead and White

Steiner House

Buildings completed

• The Renauld Bank in Nancy, designed by Émile André and Paul Charbonnier.
• The Ducret Apartment Building in Nancy, designed by André and Charbonnier.
• Goldman & Salatsch Building (the "Looshaus"), Michaelerplatz, Vienna, designed by Adolf Loos.
• Steiner House in Vienna, designed by Adolf Loos.
• Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, Australia.
• Birmingham Oratory in Birmingham, UK, designed by Edward Doran Webb.
• Jacir Palace Hotel in Bethlehem.
• Gereonshaus in Cologne, designed by Carl Moritz.
• National Museum of Finland, Helsinki, designed by Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren and Eliel Saarinen.
• Pilgrim Monument, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - Thomas Graham Jackson.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

• May 23 - Sir Hugh Casson, British architect, interior designer, artist, influential writer and broadcaster (died 1999)
• June 26 - Maciej Nowicki, Polish architect, chief architect of the new Indian city of Chandigarh (died 1950)
• August 12 - Eliot Noyes, Harvard -trained US architect and industrial designer (died 1977)
• August 20 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish American architect and industrial designer (died 1961), son of Eliel Saarinen

Deaths

• March 13 - Sir Thomas Drew, Irish architect (born 1838)
• May 14 - Gaetano Koch, Italian architect active in Rome (born 1849)
• August 24 - Juste Lisch, French architect (born 1828)