1932 in architecture

The year 1932 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Sydney Harbour Bridge

• March 19 - Sydney Harbour Bridge, designed by John Bradfield, is opened in Sydney, Australia.
• April 23 - New Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, designed by Elisabeth Scott, is opened, becaming the first important work erected in the United Kingdom by a woman architect.^[1]
• Church of the Sacred Heart in Prague, designed by Josip Plecnik, is completed.
• The Daily Express Building, London, designed by Sir Owen Williams, is built.
• The Hoover Building on the Western Avenue in Perivale, West London, designed by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners in Art Deco style, is opened.
• Lambeth Bridge, designed by Geoffrey Groves, is opened.
• Unilever House in the City of London, designed by James Lomax-Simpson of Unilever with Sir John Burnet and Thomas S. Tait of Sir John Burnet and Partners, is opened.^[2]
• Saint Sophia Cathedral in Harbin, China, is completed.
• Douaumont ossuary, designed by Léon Azéma to house the bones of at least 130,000 unidentified soldiers of both sides, is completed.

Awards

• Olympic gold medal - Gustave Saacké, Pierre Bailey and Pierre Montenot for Arena for bulls, Paris.
• Olympic silver medal - John Russell Pope of the USA for Design for Payne Whitney Gymnasium.
• Olympic bronze medal - Richard Konwiartz of Germany for Design for Schlesierkampfbahn, Breslau.
• Royal Gold Medal - Hendrik Petrus Berlage.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Events

• International Style by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock is published.
• The International Exhibition of Modern Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York spreads the international style.
• John Wiley & Sons publishes Architectural Graphic Standards by Charles George Ramsey (1884–1963) and Harold Reeve Sleeper, the first book to present the accepted architectural practices of the time in a clear and accessible graphic form.

Births

• August 11 - Peter Eisenman

Deaths

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