1938 in architecture

The year 1938 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

• First woman elected to Royal Institute of British Architects, Josephine Miller.

Buildings opened

Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, San Francisco

• October 22 - Oxford Playhouse, Oxford, England, designed by Edward Maufe.^[1]
• October 29 - City Hall, Norwich, England, designed by C. H. James and S. R. Pierce.
• November 14 - Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Buildings completed

• The Reich Chancellery in Berlin, designed by Albert Speer (rebuilt).
• Great Mosque of Asmara in Italian Eritrea, designed by Guido Ferrazza.
• Church of the Epiphany, Gipton, Leeds, England, designed by Nugent Cachemaille-Day.
• Metro Theatre (Toronto), designed by Kaplan and Sprachman.
• Finsbury Health Centre, London, designed by Berthold Lubetkin and the Tecton Group.
• Metropolitan Water Board Laboratories, London, designed by Howard Robertson.
• Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, Treasure Island, San Francisco Bay, California, USA, designed by George W. Kelham and William Peyton Day.
• Palace of Justice, Lima, Peru.
• City Hall, Mar del Plata, Argentina, designed by Alejandro Bustillo.
• Manchester Town Hall Extension, England, designed by Vincent Harris in 1927.
• São Bento Palace, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands, designed by Henry van de Velde.
• Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Finland, designed by Yrjö Lindegren and Toivo Jäntti.
• Charters House, Berkshire, England, designed by Adie, Button and Partners.
• Middleton Park, Oxfordshire, England, the last great country house designed by Edwin Lutyens (with his son Robert).
• Houses in Hampshire, Sussex and at Eton, Berkshire in England by Marcel Breuer and F. R. S. Yorke.
• Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, designed by Walter Gropius with Marcel Breuer.
• Josephine M. Hagerty House, Cohasset, Massachusetts, designed by Walter Gropius with Marcel Breuer.
• Luma Tower, built as British Luma Co-Operative Electric Lamp factory, Glasgow, designed by Cornelius Armour.

Gropius House

Other

• Construction work begins on
  • Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra, California, designed by Marston & Maybury.
  • Council House, Bristol, England, designed by Vincent Harris.

Publications

• Lewis Mumford - The Culture of Cities

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Paul Philippe Cret
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal - Ivar Tengbom
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Henry Bernard

Births

• April 16 - Wolf Hilbertz, German-born futurist architect, inventor and marine scientist (died 2007)
• May 12 - Terry Farrell, English architect, designed the KK100 and the SIS Building
• July 10 - Paul Andreu, French airport architect
• July 14 - Moshe Safdie, Israeli/Canadian architect, urban designer, educator, theorist and author
• November 30 - Andrea Branzi, Italian architect and designer
• December 30 - Susan Maxman, née Abel, American architect

Deaths

• February 25 - W. D. Caröe, English-born ecclesiastical architect (born 1857)
• October 30 - Charles Klauder, American architect (born 1872)

References