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1925 in architecture

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1925 in architecture

The year 1925 in architecture involved some significant events.

Contents

Buildings

  • 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
  • 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)

    • References

    1925 in architecture Wikipedia
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