1918 in architecture
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The year 1918 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- November 3 – A Baroque Marian column (built 1650) in Prague, the Czech Republic, is destroyed by nationalists.{{cite journal|first=Cynthia|last=Paces|title=The Fall and Rise of Prague's Marian Column|journal=Radical History Review|volume=79|year=2001|pages=141–155}}
- December 3 – The November Group (Novembergruppe) of expressionist artists and architects is formed in Germany, and shortly afterwards merges with the Arbeitsrat für Kunst.{{cite book|first=Helga|last=Kliemann|title=Die Novembergruppe|publisher=Gebr. Mann|location=Berlin|year=1969}}
Buildings and structures
=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.
- Copenhagen Police Headquarters are begun in 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.
- Woodland Chapel in Skogskyrkogården Cemetery is built in Stockholm, Sweden. Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund.
- Snellman House in Djursholm, Sweden, is built. Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund.
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Ernest Newton.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: not held.
Births
- February 1 – Minnette de Silva, Ceylonese modernist architect (died 1998)
- March 16 – Aldo van Eyck, Dutch architect (died 1999){{cite web|url=http://www.team10online.org/team10/eyck/index.html|title=Aldo van Eyck|publisher=Team 10 On line|accessdate=9 September 2012}}
- April 10 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect best known for Sydney Opera House (died 2008){{cite news|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ikmCHVv0stlSnIJYFrpEDVBq8I3wD94OKMGO0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202172431/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ikmCHVv0stlSnIJYFrpEDVBq8I3wD94OKMGO0|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 2, 2008|title=Sydney Opera House designer Joern Utzon dies|date=2008-11-30|publisher=Associated Press|accessdate=2008-11-30}}
- July 3 – Benjamin C. Thompson, American architect (died 2002)
- October 23 – Paul Rudolph, American architect and academic (died 1997){{cite book|title=Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses|first= Christopher|last=Domin|author2=King, Joseph|year=2005|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|isbn=1-56898-551-7|page=26}}{{cite news|title=Paul Rudolph Is Dead at 78; Modernist Architect of the 1960s|first=Herbert|last=Muschamp|authorlink=Herbert Muschamp|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/09/arts/paul-rudolph-is-dead-at-78-modernist-architect-of-the-60-s.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1997-08-09|accessdate=2011-06-25|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120408174647/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/09/arts/paul-rudolph-is-dead-at-78-modernist-architect-of-the-60-s.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|archivedate=2012-04-08|url-status=dead}}
- December 16 – Gerard Goalen, English Catholic church architect (died 1999)
Deaths
- April 11 – Otto Wagner, Austrian architect and urban planner (born 1841)Geretsegger, Heinz (1979). Otto Wagner, 1841–1989; the Expanding City; The Beginning of Modern Architecture. New York: Rizzoli. {{ISBN|0-8478-0217-5}}.
- May 25 – William Pitt, Australian architect, public servant and politician (born 1855)[http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110245b.htm Australian Dictionary of Biography], Online Edition.
- October 25 – Zsigmond Quittner, Hungarian commercial architect (died 1859)