1918 in architecture

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The year 1918 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• Hallidie Building is built in San Francisco. Designed by Willis Polk. Credited as the first glass curtain wall building.
• D. L. James House is built in Carmel Highlands, California. Designed by Greene and Greene in an Arts and crafts style.
• Police Headquarters are built in Copenhagen, Denmark. Designed by Hack Kampmann in a Neoclassical style.
• Our Lady of the Victories Basilica in Melbourne, Australia is completed.
• Newman College in Melbourne, Australia designed by Walter Burley Griffin, is completed.
• The Chapel of St. James, of the Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago, designed by Zachary Taylor Davis, in the French Gothic style, is completed.
• Stockholm Library, designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund is built in Stockholm, Sweden in a Mannerist early modern style.
• The Woodland Chapel is built in Stockholm, Sweden. Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund.

Events

• November 3 – Baroque Marian column in Prague, the Czech Republic, destroyed by nationalists. (Built 1650)
• Arbeitsrat für Kunst and Novembergruppe are formed in Germany.

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - Ernest Newton.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

• March 16 - Aldo van Eyck (died 1999)
• April 10 - Jørn Utzon (died 2008)
• July 3 - Benjamin C. Thompson (died 2002)
• October 23 - Paul Rudolph (died 1997)^[1][2]

Deaths

• April 11 - Otto Wagner (born 1841)

References