1917 in architecture
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The year 1917 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- The journal De Stijl is first published by Theo van Doesburg.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- The Het Schip housing scheme designed by Michel de Klerk in Amsterdam is started.
- The Lister County Courthouse (Listers härads tingshus) designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund in a Mannerist style in Sölvesborg, Sweden is started.
Buildings completed
- Cunard Building, Liverpool, England, designed by William Edward Willink and Philip Coldwell Thicknesse.
- Edificio Correos, San José, Costa Rica[1]
- Livermore House, San Francisco, California, USA, designed by Julia Morgan.
- Rhode Island Hospital Trust Building, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, designed by York and Sawyer[2]
Awards
Births
- March 2 â Laurie Baker, British-born Indian architect, known for his initiatives in cost-effective energy-efficient architecture (died 2007)
- April 26 â I. M. Pei, Chinese American architect often called a master of modern architecture[3] (died 2019)
- July 6 â Wang Da-hong, Chinese-born Taiwanese architect (died 2018)
- September 14 â Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect and designer (died 2007)
- December 8 â Nisse Strinning, Swedish architect and designer (died 2006)
- December 10 â Eladio Dieste, Uruguayan engineer and architect (died 2000)
Deaths
- January 19 â E. R. Robson, English school architect (born 1836)
- February 8 â Thomas Arboe, Danish railway station architect (born 1837)
- July 2 â Gerald Horsley, English architect (born 1862)
- August 4 â C. W. Stephens, English commercial architect (born c.1845)
- September 23 â Robert Swain Peabody, Boston architect (born 1845)
- November 23 â William Ralph Emerson, American architect (born 1833)
- December 30 â Gustaf Nyström, Finnish architect (born 1856)