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1938 in architecture
Summary
The year
1938 in architecture
involved some significant events.
List of years in architecture
(
table
)
…
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
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Buildings and structures
Art
Archaeology
Architecture
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Science
+...
Events
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First woman elected to
Royal Institute of British Architects
, Josephine Miller.
Buildings and structures
edit
Buildings opened
edit
July –
Saltdean Lido
and Ocean Hotel,
Saltdean
, East Sussex, England, both designed by
R.W.H. Jones
.
October 22
–
Oxford Playhouse
, Oxford, England, designed by
Edward Maufe
.
[1]
October 29
–
City Hall, Norwich
, England, designed by
C. H. James
and
S. R. Pierce
.
November 14
–
Lions Gate Bridge
in
Vancouver
,
British Columbia
,
Canada
.
Buildings completed
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Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, San Francisco
Gropius House
in
Lincoln, Massachusetts
, USA
The
Reich Chancellery
in
Berlin
, designed by
Albert Speer
(rebuilt).
Great Mosque of Asmara
in
Italian Eritrea
, designed by Guido Ferrazza.
Church of the Epiphany, Gipton
, Leeds, England, designed by
Nugent Cachemaille-Day
.
Metro Theatre (Toronto)
, designed by Kaplan and Sprachman.
Finsbury Health Centre
, London, designed by
Berthold Lubetkin
and the
Tecton Group
.
Metropolitan Water Board Laboratories, London, designed by
Howard Robertson
.
Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, Treasure Island
, San Francisco Bay, California, USA, designed by
George W. Kelham
and William Peyton Day.
Palace of Justice
, Lima, Peru.
City Hall,
Mar del Plata
, Argentina, designed by
Alejandro Bustillo
.
Manchester Town Hall Extension
, England, designed by
Vincent Harris
in
1927
.
São Bento Palace
, Lisbon, Portugal.
Kröller-Müller Museum
,
Otterlo
, Netherlands, designed by
Henry van de Velde
.
Helsinki Olympic Stadium
, Finland, designed by
Yrjö Lindegren
and Toivo Jäntti.
Brackenfell (house),
Brampton, Carlisle
, England, designed by
Leslie Martin
and
Sadie Speight
.
[2]
The Homewood
(house) near
Esher
, Surrey, England, designed by
Patrick Gwynne
(for his parents).
Charters House
, Berkshire, England, designed by
Adie, Button and Partners
.
Hamstone House
, St George's Hill, Weybridge, Surrey, designed by Ian Forbes.
Middleton Park, Oxfordshire
, England, the last great country house designed by
Edwin Lutyens
(with his son Robert).
Houses in Hampshire, Sussex and at
Eton, Berkshire
in England by
Marcel Breuer
and
F. R. S. Yorke
.
Gropius House
,
Lincoln, Massachusetts
, designed by
Walter Gropius
with Marcel Breuer.
Belvedere Court
(apartments) in
East Finchley
, London, designed by
Ernst L. Freud
.
Josephine M. Hagerty House
,
Cohasset, Massachusetts
, designed by Walter Gropius with Marcel Breuer.
Luma Tower
, built as British Luma Co-Operative Electric Lamp factory,
Glasgow
, designed by Cornelius Armour.
Fiat Tagliero Building
, Asmara, Italian Eritrea, designed by
Giuseppe Pettazzi
.
Other
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Construction work begins on
Mark Keppel High School
in
Alhambra, California
, designed by Marston & Maybury.
Council House, Bristol
, England, designed by
Vincent Harris
.
Publications
edit
Lewis Mumford
–
The Culture of Cities
Awards
edit
AIA Gold Medal
–
Paul Philippe Cret
RIBA
Royal Gold Medal
–
Ivar Tengbom
Grand Prix de Rome
, architecture:
Henry Bernard
Births
edit
April 16
–
Wolf Hilbertz
, German-born futurist architect, inventor and marine scientist (
died 2007
)
May 12
–
Terry Farrell
, English architect, designer of the
KK100
and
SIS Building
July 10
–
Paul Andreu
, French airport architect (
died 2018
)
July 14
–
Moshe Safdie
, Israeli/Canadian architect, urban designer, educator, theorist and author
September 3
–
Richard MacCormac
, British architect (
died 2014
)
November 30
–
Andrea Branzi
, Italian architect and designer
December 30
–
Susan Maxman
, née Abel, American architect
Theodor Fischer
Deaths
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February 25
–
W. D. Caröe
, English-born ecclesiastical architect (born
1857
)
July 2
–
John James Burnet
, Scottish architect (born 1857)
October 30
–
Charles Klauder
, American architect (born
1872
)
December 24
–
Bruno Taut
, German-born architect and urban planner (born
1880
)
December 25
–
Theodor Fischer
, German architect (born
1862
)
References
edit
^
Sherwood, Jennifer;
Pevsner, Nikolaus
(1974).
The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire
.
Penguin Books
. p. 324.
ISBN
0-14-071045-0
.
^
Twentieth Century Society (2017).
100 Houses 100 Years
. London: Batsford.
ISBN
978-1-84994-437-3
.