1916 in architecture
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The year 1916 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- Colony Club at Park Avenue & 62nd Streer in New York City by Delano & Aldrich with interiors by Elsie de Wolfe, later the East Coast school of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, completed.
- Main building of St Hugh's College, Oxford in England by Herbert Tudor Buckland and William Haywood completed.
- Church of St Paul, Liverpool in England by Giles Gilbert Scott completed.
- Holland House (shipping company offices) in the City of London, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage, completed.[1]
- Las Lajas Shrine in Colombia, begun; completed 1949.
Events
- c. November â The Incorporation of Architects in Scotland founded in Edinburgh.
- Publication of the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs is initiated, continuing until 1940.
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal â Robert Rowand Anderson.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: not held.
Births
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- January 23 â Olaf Andreas Gulbransson, German architect (d. 1961)
- April 4 â Robert S. McMillan, American architect (d. 2001)
- May 4 â Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian urban theorist (d. 2006)
- May 21 â Leonard Manasseh, Singapore-born British architect (d. 2017)
- June 29 â John M. Johansen, American architect (d. 2012)
- July 1 â Lawrence Halprin, American architect (d. 2009)
- August 6 â Dom Mintoff, Maltese architect and Prime Minister (d. 2012)
- November 1 â John C. Harkness, American architect (d. 2016)
- November 9 â Richard Tyler, British architect (d. 2009)
- Dewi-Prys Thomas, British architect (d. 1985)
Deaths
- March 22 â Ferdinand Fellner, Austrian architect (b. 1847)
- June â Addison Hutton, American architect (b. 1834)
- July 1 â First Day on the Somme (killed in action)
- Eugene Bourdon, French architect (b. 1870)
- Gilbert Waterhouse, English architect and war poet (b. 1883)
- July 22 â Hans Jørgen Holm, Danish architect (b. 1835)
- October 10 â Antonio Sant'Elia, Italian architect (killed in action) (b. 1888)
- December 22 â Gyula Pártos, Hungarian architect (b. 1845)