1933 in architecture

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The year 1933 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Completion of the Myer Emporium renovation, on Bourke Street, Melbourne.
The Round House, designed by Berthold Lubetkin's Tecton Architectural Group to house gorillas at London Zoo, one of the first modernist buildings in Britain.^[1]
Battersea Power Station in London, with Giles Gilbert Scott as consultant architect,^[2] begins operation.
Royal Masonic Hospital (later Ravenscourt Park Hospital) at Ravenscourt Park in London, by Thomas S. Tait of Sir John Burnet, Tait and Lorne, opened.^[3]^[4]
Villa Markelius in Stockholm, designed by Sven Markelius for himself.

The Bauhaus school in Berlin is permanently closed by the Nazi government.
Modern Architectural Research Group (MARS Group) established as a think tank by younger architects and critics involved in the modernist movement in Great Britain.
Completion of restoration of Herstmonceux Castle in England by Walter Godfrey.

John Betjeman - Ghastly Good Taste, or the depressing story of the rise and fall of British architecture.
The Information Book of Sir John Burnet, Tait & Lorne.

^ "Berthold Lubetkin". Design Museum. http://www.designmuseum.org/design/berthold-lubetkin. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
^ Stamp, Gavin. "Battersea Power Station". The Thirties Society Journal 1: 3–8.
^ Gold, Susan. "The Royal Masonic Hospital". The Thirties Society Journal 2: 29–34.
^ Bayer, Patricia (1992). "Civic Structures". Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0500281491.