1926 in architecture
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The year 1926 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- c. February â British General Post Office K2 red telephone box, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, is introduced, chiefly in the London area.[1]
- AprilâMay â The German Zehner-Ring group of Modernist architects expands to become Der Ring.
- June 7 â While walking along the Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes in Barcelona, Antoni Gaudà is struck by a passing tram and knocked unconscious. Delays in receiving medical treatment contribute to his death in hospital a few days later.[2] On June 12, after a funeral procession through the streets of Barcelona lined by thousands, he is buried in the crypt chapel of his unfinished church of Sagrada FamÃlia.
- November 27 â In Williamsburg, Virginia, the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins.
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- The Frankfurt kitchen is designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky for Ernst May's social housing project New Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany.[3]
- The Russian avant-garde magazine SA is published for the first time.
- Restoration of the Tudor Owlpen Manor in the Cotswolds of England by Norman Jewson is completed.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- May 13 â Hercilio Luz Bridge, Florianopolis, Brazil, designed by Robinson & Steinman.
- September 13 â Clapham South, Tooting Bec, Tooting Broadway, Colliers Wood, South Wimbledon and Morden tube stations, London, designed by Charles Holden (also Balham, opened December 6).
- October 3 â City Methodist Church (Gary, Indiana), designed by Lowe and Bollenbacher.
- November 11 â Northampton War Memorial, designed by Edwin Lutyens, unveiled in England.
- December 4 â Bauhaus Dessau building, designed by Walter Gropius, opened in Dessau, Germany.
Buildings completed
- Mausoleum of Yugoslavian Soldiers in Olomouc, designed by Hubert Aust
- Church of The English Martyrs (Roman Catholic), Reading, Berkshire, England, designed by Wilfred C. Mangan
- Southwestern Bell Building, downtown St. Louis, Missouri, USA, designed by Mauran, Russell & Crowell with I.R. Timlin
- Sourdough Inn, Fort Yukon, Alaska, USA
- Remodeling of Twin Peaks, 102 Bedford Street, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, by Clifford Reed Daily
- 900 Stewart Avenue (Ithaca, New York), USA
- New Ways (house for Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke), 508 Wellingborough Road, Northampton, England, designed by Peter Behrens, "a pioneer of modern architecture in Britain"[4]
- Villa Wolf in Gubin, Poland, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal â Ragnar Ostberg.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Baptiste Hourlier.
Births
- 21 January â Roger Taillibert, French architect (died 2019)[5][6]
- 8 April â Henry N. Cobb, American architect (died 2020)
- 15 April â Norma Merrick Sklarek, African American architect (died 2012)
- 22 April â James Stirling, British architect (died 1992)
- 18 July â Carlo Aymonino, Italian architect and urban planner (died 2010)
- 12 October â César Pelli, Argentine-born architect (died 2019)
- 6 December - Rifat Chadirji, Iraqi architect (died 2020)
Deaths
- 10 June â Antoni GaudÃ, Spanish architect, exponent of Catalan Modernism (born 1852)
- 7 July â Fyodor Schechtel, Russian architect, graphic artist and stage designer (born 1859)