1940 in architecture

The year 1940 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• Oscar Niemeyer begins to design landmark public buildings around the artificial lake of Pampulha in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil.
• The last of the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs, begun in 1916, is published.
• Thomas Sharp's Pelican book Town Planning is published in the United Kingdom.

St. Mark's Church, Belgrade

Buildings completed

• Igreja Nossa Senhora do Brasil in São Paulo, Brazil.
• St. Mark's Church, Belgrade, Serbia.
• Timișoara Orthodox Cathedral, Timişoara, Romania.
• Raleigh Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, United States, designed by Lawrence Murray Dixon.
• Replacement Llao Llao Hotel at San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, designed by Alejandro Bustillo.
• Civic Centre of San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, designed by Ernesto de Estrada.
• New Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford, England, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.
• Atatürk Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey (the fourth bridge on this site).
• Eastern Michigan Motorbus Terminal in Ann Arbor, United States, designed by Banfield and Cumming with Douglas Loree.
• Walton Yacht Works at Walton on Thames, England, designed by Jane Drew.

Awards

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – William Adams Delano.
• Royal Gold Medal - Charles Voysey.

Births

• January 14 - Helmut Jahn, German-American architect
• May 31 - Lebbeus Woods, American architect and artist (died 2012)
• June 24 - Claude Vasconi, French architect (died 2009)

Deaths

• February 27 - Peter Behrens, German architect and designer (born 1868)
• June 11 - John A. Pearson, Canadian architect (born 1867)
• August 22 - Paul Gösch, German artist, architect, lithographer, and designer (born 1885)
• October 20 - Gunnar Asplund, Swedish Nordic Classicist architect (born 1885)
• December 13 - Marc Camoletti, Swiss architect (born 1857)