1918 IN ARCHITECTURE

The year '1918 in architecture' involved some significant events.

Contents

Buildings

Events

Awards

Births

Deaths

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.

★ The Woodland Chapel is built in Stockholm, Sweden. Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund.

★ Stockholm Library also designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund is built in Stockholm, Sweden in a Mannerist early modern style.

★ Our Lady of the Victories Basilica in Melbourne, Australia is completed.

★ Newman College in Melbourne, Australia designed by Walter Burley Griffin is completed.

Events

★ November 3 – Baroque Marian column in Prague, the Czech Republic, destroyed by nationalists. (Built 1650)

★ Arbeitsrat für Kunst and Novembergruppe are formed in Germany.

Awards

★ Royal Gold Medal - Ernest Newton.

★ Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

★ April 10 - Jørn Utzon

★ Benjamin C. Thompson (died 2002)

★ Aldo van Eyck (died 1999)

Deaths

★ April 11 - Otto Wagner (born 1841)