1918 in architecture
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The year 1918 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- November 3 – A Baroque Marian column in Prague, the Czech Republic, is destroyed by nationalists. (built 1650).[1]
- December 3 - The Novembergruppe is formed in Germany, and shortly afterwards merges with the Arbeitsrat für Kunst.[2]
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.
Awards
- Royal Gold Medal - Ernest Newton.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).
Births
- March 16 - Aldo van Eyck, Dutch architect (died 1999)[3]
- April 10 - Jørn Utzon, Danish architect best known for Sydney Opera House (died 2008)[4]
- July 3 - Benjamin C. Thompson, US architect (died 2002)
- October 23 - Paul Rudolph, US architect and academic (died 1997)[5][6]
Deaths
- April 11 - Otto Wagner, Austrian architect and urban planner (born 1841)[7]
- May 25 - William Pitt, Australian architect, public servant and politician (born 1855)[8]
References
- ^ Cynthia Paces, "The Fall and Rise of Prague's Marian Column," Radical History Review 79 (2001) 141-155
- ^ Helga Kliemann: Die Novembergruppe. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1969.
- ^ "Aldo van Eyck". Team 10 On line. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
- ^ "Sydney Opera House designer Joern Utzon dies". Associated Press. 2008-11-30. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
- ^ Domin, Christopher; King, Joseph (2005). Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 26. ISBN 1-56898-551-7.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Muschamp, Herbert (August 9, 1997). "Paul Rudolph Is Dead at 78; Modernist Architect of the 1960s". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 21, 2011. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
- ^ Geretsegger, Heinz (1979). Otto Wagner, 1841-1989; the Expanding City; The Beginning of Modern Architecture. New York: Rizzoli. ISBN 0-8478-0217-5.
- ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition