1924 in architecture

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The year 1924 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

Buildings and structures

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Awards

Births

  • February 29Agustín 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 23John Madin, English architect (died 2012)
  • June 14Arthur 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 14Sverre 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 16Philip Dowson, South African-born British architect (died 2014)
  • December 4John C. Portman Jr., American architect and developer

Deaths

  • April 14Louis 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 23Bertram 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 24Ferdinand Arnodin, French bridge engineer (born 1845)
  • August 11Franz Heinrich Schwechten, German architect (born 1841)
  • November 7 – Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, English architect active in Oxford (born 1835)

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