1925 in architecture

The year 1925 in architecture involved some significant events.

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Events

• April–October – International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes) in Paris.
• May 25 – Second Madison Square Garden (the version built 1890 and designed by Stanford White) is closed on this date and demolished shortly after.^[1]
• St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church (12th century) is shipped from Sacramenia, Segovia, Spain to the United States by William Randolph Hearst.

Buildings and structures

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1925

Buildings opened

• November 18 – Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University, designed by Delano & Aldrich^[2][3] opens. 4,800 people come to see the building on opening day, followed by 3,000 people the next day.^[4]

Buildings completed

Altare della Patria in Rome, Italy

• Mount Pleasant Library (Washington, D.C.), designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton, opens.
• Great Synagogue (Tel Aviv), designed by Yehuda Magidovitch, is completed.
• Administration Building at Texas Technological College (modern-day Texas Tech University) in Lubbock, Texas, designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick, opens.
• Altare della Patria (Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II) in Rome, designed by Giuseppe Sacconi (died 1905) in 1884, is completed.
• Uppståndelsekapellet (Resurrection Chapel), Skogskyrkogården (Woodland Cemetery), Stockholm, Sweden, designed by Sigurd Lewerentz, is built.
• Villa Le Trident at Théoule-sur-Mer on the French Riviera, designed by Barry Dierks, is built.
• Government House of Thailand, in Bangkok, then known as Baan Norasingha (Thai: บ้านนรสิงห์), designed by Corrado Feroci.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal – Edwin Lutyens; Bertram Goodhue.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Giles Gilbert Scott.
• Prix de Rome, architecture: Alfred Audoul.

Births

Robert Venturi

• January 14 – Aarno Ruusuvuori, Finnish architect (died 1992)
• January 17 – Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian American architect (died 2017)
• April 6 – Paul Ritter, Australian architect, town planner, sociologist, artist and author (died 2010)
• May 18 – Justus Dahinden, Swiss architect and writer^[5]
• May 31 – Frei Otto, German Pritzker Prize-winning architect and structural engineer (died 2015)
• June 25 – Robert Venturi, American Pulitzer Prize-winning architect (died 2018)
• August 20 – Henning Larsen, Danish architect (died 2013)

Deaths

• January 8 – Stewart Henbest Capper, British Arts and Crafts architect (born 1859)
• April 13 – August Endell, German Jugendstil architect and designer (born 1871)
• September 13 – Emily Elizabeth Holman, American architect (born 1854)
• December 26 – Jan Letzel, Czech architect (born 1880)^[6]

References

1. "Mad. Sq. History: Madison Square Garden". Madison Square Park. Madison Square Park Conservancy. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
2. New York: A Guide to the Empire State. Oxford University Press. 1940. p. 237. ISBN 9781603540315. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
3. Bishop, Morris (1962). A History of Cornell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. p. 456. ISBN 0801400368. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
4. Saulnier, Beth (November 2018). "Straight Ahead". Cornell Alumni Magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
5. "Justus Dahinden". Great Buildings. Archived from the original on 2014-06-13. Retrieved 2014-05-25.
6. Velinger, Jan (2005-08-03). "A look at the Czech architect who built Hiroshima's Industrial Promotion Hall — today's A-Bomb Dome". Prague: Radio Praha. Retrieved 2017-09-20.