1925 in architecture
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The year 1925 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
Bauhaus Dessau
- The Bauhaus moves to a building in Dessau designed by Walter Gropius
- Mount Pleasant Library (Washington, D.C.), designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton, opens
- Great Synagogue (Tel Aviv), designed by Yehuda Magidovitch, is completed
- The Administration Building at Texas Technological College (modern-day Texas Tech University) in Lubbock, Texas, designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick, opens
- The Altare della Patria (Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II) in Rome, designed by Giuseppe Sacconi (died 1905) in 1884, is completed
Events
- Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes
- The German Zehnerring group becomes Der Ring.
Awards
- AIA Gold Medal - Edwin Lutyens; Bertram Goodhue.
- Royal Gold Medal - Giles Gilbert Scott.
- Prix de Rome, architecture: Alfred Audoul.
Births
- May 18 - Justus Dahinden, Swiss architect and writer[1]
- May 31 - Frei Otto, German Pritzker Prize-winning architect and structural engineer (died 2015)
- June 25 - Robert Venturi, American Pulitzer Prize-winning architect
Deaths
- September 13 - Emily Elizabeth Holman, American architect (born 1854)
- December 26 - Jan Letzel, Czech architect (born 1880)[2]
References
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