1916 in architecture

The year 1916 in architecture involved some significant events.

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Buildings and structures

Buildings

Giles Gilbert Scott's Church of St Paul, Liverpool completed

• Colony Club at Park Avenue & 62nd Streer in New York City by Delano & Aldrich with interiors by Elsie de Wolfe, later the East Coast school of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, completed.
• Main building of St Hugh's College, Oxford in England by Herbert Tudor Buckland and William Haywood completed.
• Church of St Paul, Liverpool in England by Giles Gilbert Scott completed.
• Holland House (shipping company offices) in the City of London, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage, completed.[1]

Events

• c. November – The Incorporation of Architects in Scotland founded in Edinburgh.
• Publication of the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs is initiated, continuing until 1940.

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Robert Rowand Anderson.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: not held.

Births

Dom Mintoff

• January 23 – Olaf Andreas Gulbransson, German architect (d. 1961)
• April 4 – Robert S. McMillan, American architect (d. 2001)
• May 4 – Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian urban theorist (d. 2006)
• May 21 – Leonard Manasseh, Singapore-born British architect (d. 2017)
• June 29 – John M. Johansen, American architect (d. 2012)
• July 1 – Lawrence Halprin, American architect (d. 2009)
• August 6 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese architect and Prime Minister (d. 2012)
• November 1 – John C. Harkness, American architect
• November 9 – Richard Tyler, British architect (d. 2009)
• Dewi-Prys Thomas, British architect (d. 1985)

Deaths

• March 22 – Ferdinand Fellner, Austrian architect (b. 1847)
• June – Addison Hutton, American architect (b. 1834)
• July 22 – Hans Jørgen Holm, Danish architect (b. 1835)
• October 10 – Antonio Sant'Elia, Italian architect (killed in action) (b. 1888)
• December 22 – Gyula Pártos, Hungarian architect (b. 1845)

References

1. Wittekind, Sarah. "1916: Holland House, London". 100 Buildings 100 Years. The Twentieth Century Society. Retrieved 2016-04-22.