1925 in architecture
Overview of the events of 1925 in architecture
The year 1925 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
Buildings completed
Altare della Patria in Rome, Italy
- Mount Pleasant Library (Washington, D.C.), designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton, opens.
- Great Synagogue (Tel Aviv), designed by Yehuda Magidovitch, is completed.
- Administration Building at Texas Technological College (modern-day Texas Tech University) in Lubbock, Texas, designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick, opens.
- Altare della Patria (Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II) in Rome, designed by Giuseppe Sacconi (died 1905) in 1884, is completed.
- Uppståndelsekapellet (Resurrection Chapel), Skogskyrkogården (Woodland Cemetery), Stockholm, Sweden, designed by Sigurd Lewerentz, is built.
- Villa Le Trident at Théoule-sur-Mer on the French Riviera, designed by Barry Dierks, is built.
- Government House of Thailand, in Bangkok, then known as Baan Norasingha (Thai: บ้านนรสิงห์), designed by Corrado Feroci.
Awards
Births
Robert Venturi
- January 14 – Aarno Ruusuvuori, Finnish architect (died 1992)
- January 17 – Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian American architect (died 2017)
- April 6 – Paul Ritter, Australian architect, town planner, sociologist, artist and author (died 2010)
- May 18 – Justus Dahinden, Swiss architect and writer[5]
- May 31 – Frei Otto, German Pritzker Prize-winning architect and structural engineer (died 2015)
- June 25 – Robert Venturi, American Pulitzer Prize-winning architect (died 2018)
- August 20 – Henning Larsen, Danish architect (died 2013)
Deaths
References
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