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1942 in architecture
Summary
The year
1942 in architecture
involved some significant events.
List of years in architecture
(
table
)
…
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
…
Buildings and structures
Art
Archaeology
Architecture
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Science
+...
Events
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April 25 – Marriage of English architects
Jane Drew
and
Maxwell Fry
in London.
May 30/31 –
Bombing of Cologne in World War II
: The first 1,000 bomber raid and associated fires destroy 3,330 non-residential buildings and make 13,000 families homeless; eleven of the
twelve Romanesque churches of Cologne
are damaged.
September –
Alker Tripp
publishes
Town Planning and Road Traffic
in England, advocating segregated roads.
An abridged version of the
Athens Charter
by
Le Corbusier
is published.
Buildings and structures
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Normandie Hotel
, San Juan
Buildings
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October 10 – The
Normandie Hotel
in
San Juan, Puerto Rico
, designed by engineer
Félix Benítez Rexach
and architect Raúl Reichard, is opened.
The
National Naval Medical Center
in
Bethesda, Maryland
,
United States
is completed.
Walthamstow Town Hall
in London, designed by
Philip Hepworth
in 1932, is completed.
Wythenshawe Bus Garage
in
Manchester
, England is completed.
[1]
Awards
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RIBA
Royal Gold Medal
–
William Curtis Green
.
Grand Prix de Rome
, architecture – Raymond Gleize?
Births
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January 19 –
John Sheehy
,
American
architect
February 1 –
Tonny Zwollo
,
Dutch
-born architect
March 23 –
Fabio Reinhart
,
Swiss
architect
September 15 –
Ksenia Milicevic
, Yugoslav-born French painter, architect and town planner
Patty Hopkins
, born Patricia Wainwright, English architect
Roger Walker
,
New Zealand
architect
Deaths
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Blomfield in 1921
March 31 –
Randall Wells
, English
Arts and Crafts
architect (born
1877
)
May 17 –
Mārtiņš Nukša
, Latvian architect and diplomat (born
1878
; executed)
May 20 –
Hector Guimard
, French-born
Art Nouveau
architect (born
1867
)
May 23 –
C. R. Ashbee
, English interior designer (born
1863
)
June 25 –
Arthur Anderson
, Australian architect (born
1868
)
July 24 –
Sir Edwin Cooper
, English architect (born
1874
)
September 22 –
Ralph Adams Cram
, American collegiate and ecclesiastical architect (born 1863)
December 8 –
Albert Kahn
,
German American
industrial architect (born
1869
)
December 13 –
Robert Robinson Taylor
, first accredited African-American architect (born 1868)
December 27 –
Reginald Blomfield
, English architect (born
1856
)
Ernest George Trobridge
, British architect (born
1884
)
References
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^
Historic England
. "Wythenshawe Bus Depot (1389256)".
National Heritage List for England
. Retrieved
2014-12-21
.