1941 in architecture

The year 1941 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings completed

• Hoover Tower in Stanford, California, United States.
• The Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia.
• The Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa, Canada.
• Smith-Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States.
• Replica of the Parthenon, in concrete, in Nashville, Tennessee.
• Presidential Palace of Tirana, Albania.
• Schwerbelastungskörper, Berlin, Germany, built by Dyckerhoff & Widmann AG.

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - Frank Lloyd Wright.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

• September 13 - Tadao Ando, Japanese "critical regionalist" architect
• date unknown - Peter Corrigan, Australian architect
• approximate date - Yasmeen Lari, Pakistani architect

Deaths

• September 2 - H. Craig Severance, New York architect (born 1879)
• December 30 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect (born 1890)