1924 in architecture
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The year 1924 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- May – Royal Fine Art Commission appointed to advise the government of the United Kingdom on matters concerning the built environment.
- Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici begin work on their vacation home E-1027 at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the south of France
Buildings and structures
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File:Rietveld Schröderhuis HayKranen-14.JPG in Utrecht, Netherlands]]
=Buildings completed=
- The Chilehaus in Hamburg, Germany, designed by Johann Friedrich Höger.
- Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht, Netherlands, designed by Gerrit Rietveld.
- Copenhagen Police Headquarters in Denmark, designed by Hack Kampmann (died 1920).
- Midland Bank headquarters in the City of London, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
- Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building on Manhattan, designed by York and Sawyer.
- American Radiator Building on Manhattan, designed by John Mead Howells, Raymond Hood and J. André Fouilhoux.
- Queen Mary's Dolls' House in England, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
- Church Rate Corner (private house) in Cambridge, England designed by Baillie Scott.{{cite book|author=The Twentieth Century Society|author-link=The Twentieth Century Society|title=100 Houses 100 Years|location=London|publisher=Batsford|year=2017|isbn=978-1-84994-437-3|chapter=1924}}
Awards
- Olympic silver medal – Alfréd Hajós & Dezso Lauber of Hungary for Plan for Budapest Swimming Stadium.
- Olympic bronze medal – Julien Médecin of Monaco for Stadium for Monte Carlo (no gold medal was awarded).
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Marcel Péchin.
Births
- February 29 – Agustín Hernández Navarro, Mexican architect and sculptor (died 2022)Margarita Tortajada Quiroz: [http://www.uam.mx/difusion/revista/feb2002/tortajada.html Amalia Hernández: audacia y fuerza creativa] (Spanish)
- March 23 – John Madin, English architect (died 2012)
- June 14 – Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect (died 2009){{Cite web |url=https://theprovince.com/architect+Arthur+Erickson+dead/1614087/story.html |title=Mercer, Katie; Chan, Cheryl. "B.C. architect Arthur Erickson dead at 84," The Province (Vancouver), Thursday, May 21, 2009. |access-date=2014-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100624235457/http://www.theprovince.com/architect+Arthur+Erickson+dead/1614087/story.html |archive-date=2010-06-24 |url-status=dead }}
- August 14 – Sverre Fehn, award-winning Norwegian architect (died 2009){{cite news|title=Norwegian architect, Sverre Fehn, dies at 84|url=http://www.norway.org/ARCHIVE/culture/architecture/sverre_fehn/|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway)|date=4 March 2009|accessdate=25 April 2013}}
- August 16 – Philip Dowson, South African-born British architect (died 2014)
- December 4 – John C. Portman Jr., American architect and developer
Deaths
- April 14 – Louis Sullivan, American architect sometimes called the "father of skyscrapers"Kaufman, Mervyn D. (1969). Father of Skyscrapers: A Biography of Louis Sullivan. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. and "father of modernism"Chambers Biographical Dictionary. London: Chambers Harrap, 2007. s.v. "Sullivan, Louis Henry," http://www.credoreference.com/entry/chambbd/sullivan_louis_henry {{subscription required}} (born 1856)
- April 23 – Bertram Goodhue, American neo-gothic architect (born 1869)Oliver, Richard (1983). Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press for the Architectural History Foundation. xii + 297 pp.; 146 illustrations, bibliography, index. {{ISBN|978-0-262-15024-8}}
- April 24 – Ferdinand Arnodin, French bridge engineer (born 1845)
- August 11 – Franz Heinrich Schwechten, German architect (born 1841)
- November 7 – Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, English architect active in Oxford (born 1835)