1915 in architecture
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The year 1915 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- April â The Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition, designed by Jan Letzel, is opened; it becomes the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.
- April 21 â Theatre Circo, Braga, Portugal.[1]
- November 6 â Tunkhannock Viaduct, Nicholson, Pennsylvania, designed by Abraham Burton Cohen.
Buildings completed
- Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Bombay, designed by George Wittet.[2]
- Kumarakottam Temple, Kanchipuram, India rebuilt.
- Yosemite Lodge at the Falls, Yosemite Village, California.
- Well Hall Estate for arsenal workers at Woolwich in south-east London, designed by Frank Baines.
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal â Frank Darling.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: not held.
Births
- April 22 â Edward Larrabee Barnes, American architect (died 2004)
- May 8 â Laurent Chappis, French architect and town planner (died 2013)
- October 4 â Beverly Loraine Greene, African American architect (died 1957)
- December 12 â Tobias Faber, Danish architect and academic (died 2010)
- December 31 â George Pace, English ecclesiastical architect (died 1975)
- Naoum Shebib, Egyptian architect (died 1985)
Deaths
- February 17 â George Franklin Barber, American residential architect (born 1854)
- April 17 â Philip Webb, English architect (born 1831)
- May 28 â Robert Chisholm, British "Indo-Saracenic" architect (born 1840)[3]
- June 25 â John James Clark, Australian architect (born 1838)
- July 11 â Albert Schickedanz, Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style (born 1846)