1926 in architecture#Deaths

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• c. February – British General Post Office K2 red telephone box, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, is introduced, chiefly in the London area.{{cite book|first=Neil|last=Johannessen|title=Telephone Boxes|location=Princes Risborough|publisher=Shire Publications|year=1994|isbn=0-7478-0250-5}}
• April–May – The German Zehner-Ring group of Modernist architects expands to become Der Ring.
• June 7 – While walking along the Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes in Barcelona, Antoni Gaudí is struck by a passing tram and knocked unconscious. Delays in receiving medical treatment contribute to his death in hospital a few days later.{{cite book|first=Ana María|last=Férrin|title=Gaudí, de piedra y fuego|isbn=978-84-932015-0-0|language=Spanish |publisher=Jaraquemada |location=Barcelona|year=2001|page=415}} On June 12, after a funeral procession through the streets of Barcelona lined by thousands, he is buried in the crypt chapel of his unfinished church of Sagrada Família.
• November 27 – In Williamsburg, Virginia, the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins.
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• The Frankfurt kitchen is designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky for Ernst May's social housing project New Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany.{{cite journal|first=Karen|last=Melching|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/res_cons/conservation/journal/number_53/frankfurt/index.html|title=Frankfurt Kitchen: patina follows function|journal=Conservation Journal|issue=53|year=2006|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091218121255/http://www.vam.ac.uk/res_cons/conservation/journal/number_53/frankfurt/index.html|archivedate=2009-12-18}}
• The Russian avant-garde magazine SA is published for the first time.
• Restoration of the Tudor Owlpen Manor in the Cotswolds of England by Norman Jewson is completed.

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• May 13 – Hercilio Luz Bridge, Florianopolis, Brazil, designed by Robinson & Steinman.
• September 13 – Clapham South, Tooting Bec, Tooting Broadway, Colliers Wood, South Wimbledon and Morden tube stations, London, designed by Charles Holden (also Balham, opened December 6).
• October 3 – City Methodist Church (Gary, Indiana), designed by Lowe and Bollenbacher.
• November 11 – Northampton War Memorial, designed by Edwin Lutyens, unveiled in England.
• December 4 – Bauhaus Dessau building, designed by Walter Gropius, opened in Dessau, Germany.

• Mausoleum of Yugoslavian Soldiers in Olomouc, designed by Hubert Aust
• Church of The English Martyrs (Roman Catholic), Reading, Berkshire, England, designed by Wilfred C. Mangan
• Southwestern Bell Building, downtown St. Louis, Missouri, USA, designed by Mauran, Russell & Crowell with I.R. Timlin
• Sourdough Inn, Fort Yukon, Alaska, USA
• Remodeling of Twin Peaks, 102 Bedford Street, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, by Clifford Reed Daily
• 900 Stewart Avenue (Ithaca, New York), USA
• New Ways (house for Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke), 508 Wellingborough Road, Northampton, England, designed by Peter Behrens, "a pioneer of modern architecture in Britain"{{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=1926}}
• Villa Wolf in Gubin, Poland, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Ragnar Ostberg.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Baptiste Hourlier.

• 21 January – Roger Taillibert, French architect (died 2019){{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=H1QxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-6EFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3067,4136899&dq=roger+taillibert&hl=en|title=Quebec to take over Games' contracts}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cyberpresse.ca/arts/livres/biographies-et-recits/201008/17/01-4307126-roger-taillibert-publie-ses-memoires.php|title=Roger Taillibert publie ses mémoires}}
• 8 April – Henry N. Cobb, American architect (died 2020)
• 15 April – Norma Merrick Sklarek, African American architect (died 2012)
• 22 April – James Stirling, British architect (died 1992)
• 18 July – Carlo Aymonino, Italian architect and urban planner (died 2010)
• 12 October – César Pelli, Argentine-born architect (died 2019)
• 6 December - Rifat Chadirji, Iraqi architect (died 2020)

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• 10 June – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, exponent of Catalan Modernism (born 1852)
• 7 July – Fyodor Schechtel, Russian architect, graphic artist and stage designer (born 1859)

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