1948 in architecture

The year 1948 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

V. C. Morris Gift Shop – Frank Lloyd Wright's prototype for the Guggenheim Museum

• September 10 – The Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States is dedicated.
• December – Carswell House in Newark, Delaware, by Edward Durell Stone, completed.
• Mile High Stadium in Denver, Colorado completed.
• V. C. Morris Gift Shop (later, Xanadu Gallery) in San Francisco, by Frank Lloyd Wright.
• Morannedd Café (later, Dylan's), Criccieth Esplanade, Wales, by Clough Williams-Ellis, built (approximate date).
• Mampong Teacher's Training College and Prempeh College, Kumasi, both in Ghana, by Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew.
• Burleigh Primary School, Cheshunt, England, by Mary Crowley, opened.
• Equitable Building (Portland, Oregon), by Pietro Belluschi, completed.
• Holy Family Cathedral (Anchorage, Alaska), by Augustine A. Porreca, is completed.
• Calvert Manor apartment building in Arlington, Virginia, by Mihran Mesrobian, built.
• Bachman House in Chicago, remodeling by Bruce Goff, completed.
• Ledbetter House in Norman, Oklahoma, by Bruce Goff, completed.
• Elkay Apartments in Los Angeles, California, by Richard Neutra, built.
• Herman T. Mossberg Residence in South Bend, Indiana, by Frank Lloyd Wright, built.
• Herbert and Katherine Jacobs Second House in Madison, Wisconsin, by Frank Lloyd Wright, completed.
• Jack Lamberson House in Oskaloosa, Iowa, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, built.
• Haines Shoe House in Hallam, Pennsylvania, built.

Equitable Building (Portland, Oregon)

Events

• Le Modulor by Le Corbusier is published.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal – Charles Donagh Maginnis
• Olympic gold medal – Adolf Hoch of Austria for Ski jumping hill on the Kobenzl
• Olympic silver medal – Alfred Rinesch of Austria for Watersports centre in Karinthia
• Olympic bronze medal – Nils Olsson of Sweden for Baths and sporting hall in Gothenburg
• Royal Gold Medal – Auguste Perret

Births

• March 15 – Gavin Stamp, British architectural historian
• December 3 – Maxwell Hutchinson, English architect
• Louis D. Astorino, American architect
• Miguel Cabrera Cabrera, Spanish architect and politician working in the Canaries
• Michael Sorkin, American architect and theorist
• Ken Yeang, Malaysian ecoarchitect

Deaths

• January 19
  • Ignjat Fischer, Croatian architect (born 1870)
  • Tony Garnier, French architect (born 1869)
• January 22 – Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas, English architect (born 1868)
• February 2 – Sir Charles Herbert Reilly, English architect and teacher (born 1874)
• March 29 – Olev Siinmaa, Estonian-Swedish architect (born 1881)
• June 16 – Horace Field, English architect (born 1861)
• August 1 – George Skipper, English architect (born 1856)
• August 20 – Emery Roth, Hungarian-born American architect (born 1871)
• September 3 – Frank Mills Andrews, American architect (born 1867)
• October – Benedict Williamson, English-born architect and Roman Catholic priest (born 1868)
• October 1 – Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz, Polish architect (born 1883)
• October 27 – Albert Randolph Ross, American architect (born 1868)
• John Robert Dillon, American architect