1933 in architecture
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The year 1933 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- The Bauhaus school in Berlin is permanently closed by the Nazi government.
- Modern Architectural Research Group (MARS Group) established as a think tank by younger architects and critics involved in the modernist movement in Great Britain.
- Completion of restoration of Herstmonceux Castle in England by Walter Godfrey.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- February 21 â NebotiÄnik skyscraper, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, designed by Vladimir Å ubic.
- July â New Midland Hotel, Morecambe, Lancashire, England, designed by Oliver Hill.[1]
- August 23 â Leeds Civic Hall, Yorkshire, England, designed by Vincent Harris in 1926.
- November 29 â Schwandbach Bridge, Switzerland, designed by Robert Maillart.
- Royal Masonic Hospital (later Ravenscourt Park Hospital) at Ravenscourt Park in London, designed by Thomas S. Tait of Sir John Burnet, Tait and Lorne.[2][3]
- Labworth Café on Canvey Island, England, designed by engineer Ove Arup.
- 1933 Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition, Chicago
Buildings completed
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- St Gabriel's Anglican Church in Blackburn, England, designed by F. X. Velarde.
- Városmajori Roman Catholic church in Budapest, completed by Bertalan Ãrkay following the death in 1932 of his father Aladár Ãrkay.
- Myer Emporium renovation, Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia.
- The Round House, designed by Berthold Lubetkin's Tecton Architectural Group to house gorillas at London Zoo, one of the first modernist buildings in Britain.[4]
- Battersea Power Station, London, with Giles Gilbert Scott as consultant architect,[5] begins operation.
- College Hall, Royal Air Force College Cranwell, England, designed by James Grey West.
- Mardon Hall, first of the University of Exeter Halls of Residence in England, designed by Vincent Harris.
- Darbishire Quad at Somerville College, Oxford, England, designed by Morley Horder.
- Mercado de Abastos de Algeciras (market hall), Spain, designed by Eduardo Torroja.
- Villa Markelius in Stockholm, designed by Sven Markelius for himself.
- Schminke house in Löbau, Germany, designed by Hans Scharoun.
- Engel House, White City (Tel Aviv), Mandatory Palestine, designed by Zeev Rechter.
- Töss Footbridge, Winterthur, Switzerland, designed by Robert Maillart.[6]
Awards
- AIA Gold Medal â Ragnar Ãstberg.
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal â Charles Reed Peers.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture â Alexandre Courtois.
Publications
- John Betjeman â Ghastly Good Taste, or the depressing story of the rise and fall of British architecture.
- The Information Book of Sir John Burnet, Tait & Lorne.
Births
- February 2 â Rodney Gordon, British architect (died 2008)
- June 25 â Ãlvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect and architectural educator
- July 23
- Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect (died 2010)[7]
- Richard Rogers, Italian-born British modernist and functionalist architect (died 2021)
- October 29 â John Andrews, Australian architect (died 2022)[8]
- November 4 â Terje Moe, Norwegian architect (died 2009)[9]
- November 24 - Isaac Fola-Alade, Nigerian architect (1004 Estate) (died 2021)
Deaths
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- January â Edward Lippincott Tilton, American architect based in New York (born 1861)
- March 10 â Ãmile André, French architect, artist and furniture designer (born 1871)
- April 16 â Harold Peto, English architect and garden designer (born 1854)
- August 8
- Luca Beltrami, Italian architect and architectural historian (born 1854)
- Adolf Loos, Austrian/Czechoslovak architect and writer (born 1870)
- December 4 â W. G. R. Sprague, British theatre architect (born 1863)
- December 24 â Sir Frank Baines, English architect (born 1877)